Graduate Accomplishments

Coverage of Research and Awards

Emma PeConga (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner) and Gabby Gauthier (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner) talk about resilience during Covid, in this Psychology Today article. 

Malayka Mottarella (Cognition & Perception Area with Chantel Prat) won the Graduate Student Research Award at the Society for Text and Discourse. The Award was given for her paper entitled "Skilled Readers Engage More Proactive Attentional Control During a Working Memory Task." The award is given for the best full length paper where a student is first author.

Emma PeConga (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner) talks about resilience in this Right as Rain article.

Congratulations to five Psychology Grad Students have received NIH National Research Service Awards Fellowships: Rebecca Esquenazi (Cognition & Perception Area with Ione Fine), Natasha Gulati (Adult Clinical Area with Bill George), Lauren McClain (Adult Clinical Area with Mary Larimer), Katherine Manbeck (Adult Clinical Area with Jonathan Kanter), and Noah Triplett (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey). Read more details here.

Congratulations to Noah Triplett (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey), who was selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs. Read more details here.

Cheryl Kaiser and co-author Bryn Bandt-Law (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Cheryl Kaiser)’s study, on perceptions about sexual harassment of prototypical vs. non-prototypical women, is explored in this UW NEWS article.

Sapna Cheryan and Laura Vianna (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan) explore the culture of interruption in this Yes! article.

Congratulations to Adriana Germano (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan), who received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Heritage Dissertation Award.

Quantitative Minor Completed

Noah Triplett (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)

 
Master's Degrees Completed

Catherine Dick (Child Clinical Area with Wendy Stone)
Diana Kwon (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni)
Prerna Martin (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Katherine Seldin (Child Clinical Area with Kevin King)
Noah Triplett (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Laura Vianna (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan)

Candidate Status Achieved

Trent DesChamps (Child Clinical Area with Wendy Stone)
Lily Durwood (Child Clinical/Developmental Area with Shannon Dorsey and Kristina Olson)
Madi Feil (Child Clinical Area with Kevin King)
Iris Kuo (Cognition & Perception Area with Chantel Prat)
Terrence Pope (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan)
Megan Ramaiya (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni)
Laura Vianna (Social Psychology & Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan)
Ezgi Yucel (Cognition & Perception Area with Ione Fine)

Graduated with Doctoral Degrees

Frances Aunon (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni)
Liz Bird (Adult Clinical Area with Bill George)
Trevor Coyle (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner)
Saethra Darling (Animal Behavior Area with Mike Beecher)
Raoni Demnitz (Cognition & Perception Area with Susan Joslyn)
Matt Enkema (Adult Clinical Area with Mary Larimer)
Julie Harrison (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Nick Lozier (Animal Behavior Area with Joseph Sisneros)
A. Paige Peterson (Adult Clinical Area with Corey Fagan)
Margarita Zeitlin (Cognition & Perception Area with Lee Osterhout)