- When
- Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 8:30 – 1:00 pm
- Event interval
- Single day event
- Campus location
- Waterfront Activities Center (WAC)
- Campus room
- Waterfront Great Room
- Accessibility contact
- To request disability accommodations, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu
- Event types
- Lectures/Seminars, Special Events, Student Activities
- Event sponsors
- Department of Psychology
- Description
- Please join us for this year's Psychology Research Festival!
*Program talks are 15 minutes, followed by a 5 minute Q&A session.
Please contact the Graduate Program Advisor, with any questions or comments: psygrad@uw.edu
*Awards presentation at 12:15pm - Distinguished Teaching Awards for Graduate Students, Alcor Graduate fellowships, Earl (Buz) and Mary Lou Hunt Endowed Fellowship for Graduate Students, Steele Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, Steven A. Nomura Endowed Fund Fellowship, Barbara Sarason Endowed Fellowship in Psychology, Jaeger Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, and Dr. Robert J. Kohlenberg Research Award in Psychology.
*morning continental breakfast and hot beverages will be provided along with a sandwich lunch
>> click for Abstracts <<.
8:30 — 9:00am
Morning Coffee Service
Room schedule will be updated closer to the date of the event.
ROOM A9:00am: Jess Meikle, Child Clinical — COVID-19 Stressors’ Impact on Youth Psychopathology Trajectories: Parenting as a Moderator
9:20am: Yuqing Lei , Adult Clinical — Metacognition, Repeated Decisions, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
9:40am: Christine Chang, Adult Clinical — Alcohol Use in Hispanic/Latine American Adults and The Moderating Roles of Coping In Response to Racial Discrimination: A Registered Report
10:00am: Sam Lucero, Adult Clinical — How Tribal Community Members Talk about Substance Use: Preliminary Themes from Qualitative Interviews
10:20am — 10:40am Coffee Service
10:40am: Saivone Sanchious, Adult Clinical — Discrimination as a Unique Contextual Risk Factor: Associations with Maternal Mental Health and Early Child Adjustment
11:00am: Jinhan Zhu, Adult Clinical — Investigating Pathway-Partitioned Polygenic Risk Scores for Schizophrenia: Insights into Clinical Variability in Two Patient Cohorts
11:20am: Samantha Eaton, Cognition & Perception — Improving Newborn Brain MRI Analysis
ROOM B9:00am: John Romero, Cognition & Perception — Relating individual variation in functional networks to white matter connectivity.
9:20am: Mikela Ritter, Child Clinical — The Daily Stress Process and Alcohol Use: Exploring Intra- and Inter-Individual Daily Stress Process-Alcohol Use Associations and Cross-Level Interrelations with Global Stress
9:40am: Connor Smith, Child Clinical — Testing the Social-Contextual Framework of Solitary Drinking in Young Adults: A Pilot Study
10:00am: n/a
10:20am — 10:40am Coffee Service10:40am: Ran Wei, Social Psychology & Personality — Asian Parents' Explanations of Racial Inequality with Adolescents
11:00am: Lu Gao, Developmental — Students’ Adherence to and Perceptions of School Phone Restrictions: The Role of Social Achievement Goals
11:20am: Venus Rekow-Antoniuk, Developmental — Mapping How Mexican Adolescents Use AI: Adoption patterns and psychological factors associated with AI use for companionship
11:40 — 1:00 Lunch
12:15pm Awards Presentation
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