The Complex Memory Lab is excited to welcome postdoctoral scholar Nichole Bouffard to the lab! Nichole completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Davis where she worked with Arne Eckstrom and an undergraduate student and later with Charan Ranganath as lab manager. Nichole went on to complete her PhD at the University of […]
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Zach Reagh named Sloan Research Fellow
Congratulations to Zach Reagh, named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! This fellowship provides 2 years of support for fundamental research by early-career investigators and is one of the most prestigious awards in neuroscience. We are beyond proud of Zach and grateful for the support of the Sloan Foundation!
Savannah Born joins the lab
The Complex Memory lab welcomes our newest graduate student, Savannah Born! Savannah joins us from Johns Hopkins University, where she completed her undergraduate education and worked as a lab manager with Drs. Janice Chen and Chris Honey. Her current research interests involve incorporating personality and social psychology to investigate individual differences in interpretation/memory of complex […]
Adi Upadhyayula joins the lab
The Complex Memory Lab is happy to welcome postdoctoral scholar Adi Upadhyayula to the lab! Adi completed his PhD with Dr. Jon Flombaum at Johns Hopkins University in 2021. He then worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Dr. John Henderson at the University of California, Davis. Here at WashU, Adi holds a joint position with […]
Angelique Delarazan receives Lichtenberg Scholarship in Geropsychology
Graduate student Angelique Delarazan was recently awarded the the 2022 Lichtenberg Scholarship in Geropsychology. This scholarship is awarded annually to one student at Washington University in St. Louis who has demonstrated their dedication to geropsychology research. Angelique’s work aims to provide a deeper understanding of how memory for complex, life-like events changes with age. By […]
Rayna Tang joins the lab
The Complex Memory lab is happy to welcome Rayna Tang, a graduate student in Psychological & Brain Sciences! Rayna earned her B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto. While in Toronto, she worked in the laboratories of Drs. Michael Mack, Morgan Barense, and Asaf Gilboa. Rayna completed her undergraduate thesis in the Gilboa […]
Ata Karagoz awarded CCSN fellowship
Complex memory lab graduate student Ata Karagoz has earned a Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) fellowship for the 2023-2024 year. This competitive fellowship is awarded to students in their 3rd or 4th years of the CCSN pathway, an interdisciplinary graduate program in the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience. Congratulations to Ata and the other […]
Zach Reagh inducted into Psychonomic Society
Dr. Zach Reagh was recently inducted as a Fellow in the Psychonomic Society, the preeminent society for the experimental study of cognition. The Fellows program recognizes members who demonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically rigorous and theoretically interesting high level research, and indications of an imminent national/international reputation for excellence in […]
Angelique Delarazan Receives Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award
Angelique Delarazan, a second-year graduate student in the Complex Memory Lab, was recently awarded a Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience. The TPDA recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research. Congratulations, Angelique!
Angelique Delarazan awarded Lichtenberg Scholarship in Geropsychology
Congratulations to CML grad student Angelique Delarazan for receiving the 2021 Lichtenberg Scholarship in Geropsychology! This scholarship, in memory of Susan MacNeill Lichtenberg and Rebecca Classen Lichtenberg, is sponsored by Dr. Peter Lichtenberg. It is awarded annually to one student at Washington University in St. Louis who has demonstrated their dedication to geropsychology research. Angelique […]
Zach Reagh named APS Rising Star
The Association for Psychological Science has named Zach Reagh an APS Rising Star for 2021! The Rising Star designation recognizes early-career researchers who have already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. To learn more about the APS and the Rising Star award, please visit the APS website here. Congratulations to […]
Zach Reagh elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society
We are happy to announce that Zach has been elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society. MDRS is dedicated to the study of memory disorders, with members who range from basic researchers to clinical investigators and share the common goal of understanding how memory works and why it breaks. Learn more about MDRS here. Congratulations, […]
Sarah Morse joins the lab
We are happy to welcome our new lab manager Sarah Morse to the Complex Memory Lab! Sarah previously worked as lab manager for Dr. Alex Nord at UC Davis where she studied the role of enhancers – noncoding DNA elements which regulate gene expression – in neurodevelopmental disorders. She is broadly interested in neural mechanisms […]
Welcoming our new lab members
The Complex Memory Lab is excited to welcome two new Psychological & Brain Sciences graduate students, Angelique Delarazan and Ata Karagoz! Angelique joins us from Dr. Charan Ranganath’s Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis, where she utilized naturalistic paradigms to investigate the processes that support human memory. She is interested in neural mechanisms underlying forgetting […]