Graduate Accomplishments
Coverage of Research and Awards
An article written by Chantel Prat (Cognition and Perception Area), Tara Madhyastha, Malayka Mottarella (Cognition and Perception Area with Chantel Prat) and Chu-Hsuan Kuo (Cognition and Perception Area with Chantel Prat), has become the third most downloaded neuroscience paper published by Scientific Reports in 2020. The paper is called Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages.
Congratulations to Rosemary Meza (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey) on receiving UW's Arts and Sciences Natural Sciences Graduate Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduating doctoral student in the natural sciences. Rosemary’s research is focused on improving mental health outcomes for children and adolescents through dissemination and implementation science in domestic and international settings. Rosemary completed her clinical internship at the UW/Seattle Children’s Hospital, graduated with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the summer of 2021, and is presently at Kaiser in a faculty-level research position.
Malayka Mottarella (Cognition and Perception Area with Chantel Prat), Briana Yamasaki (Ph.D. alum 2018), and Chantel Prat (Cognition and Perception Area) published an article with Discourse Processes. The article is titled: Relating Individual Differences in Reading Skill to Neural Indices of Proactive Control and Online Filtering During a Working Memory Task.
Loranzie Rogers and his adviser, Joseph Sisneros (Animal Behavior Area) were selected by The Howard Hughes Medical Institute for the 2021 class of Gilliam adviser-student pairs. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute selected the 2021 class of Gilliam adviser-student pairs as part of a program to advance diversity and inclusion in science. Check out this spotlight profile on Loranzie.
Neil Gleason (Adult Clinical Area with William George) received a three-year, $138,108 NRSA Training award from the NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The award is for his work, titled "A Mixed-Methods Examination of HIV Risk in Men Who Have Sex with Men: Effects of Alcohol and Sexual Compulsivity." This project will investigate the effects of alcohol use and sexual compulsivity, both individually and synergistically, on HIV risk behavior. We look forward to featuring Neil in our Summer 2022 newsletter.
Katherine Manbeck (Adult Clinical Area with Jonathan Kanter) received a 17-month, $20,941, R36 dissertation research award from the NIH Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, starting September 30, 2021. The award is for her work, titled "Increasing health care equity by examining a possible mediator of the relationship between implicit bias and provider behavior: intergroup anxiety."
Previously, we recognized a student who received an NIH National Research Service Award Fellowship. Please check out the spotlight profile on Lauren McClain (Adult Clinical Area with Mary Larimer) to learn more about her research.
Liying Wang (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni) was recently awarded a 2021 American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award, a $1,000 award to assist her to complete her dissertation. Congratulations!
Quantitative Minor Completed
Adam Smiley (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Cheryl Kaiser)
Master's Degrees Completed
Rashed AlRasheed (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Shana Attar (Child Clinical Area with Wendy Stone)
Bryn Bandt-Law (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Cheryl Kaiser)
Terrence Pope (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan)
Lisa Shimomaeda (Child Clinical Area with Liliana Lengua)
Victoria Szydlowski (Adult Clinical Area with Mary Larimer)
Liying Wang (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni)
Candidate Status Achieved
Bryn Bandt-Law (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Cheryl Kaiser)
Catherine Dick (Child Clinical Area with Wendy Stone)
Becca Esquenazi (Cognition and Perception Area with Ione Fine)
Liana Galtieri (Child Clinical Area with Lynn Fainsilber Katz)
Natasha Gulati (Adult Clinical Area with William George)
Theodros Haile (Cognition and Perception Area with Chantel Prat)
Laina Keim (Child Clinical Area with Lynn Fainsilber Katz)
Adam Kuczynski (Adult Clinical Area with Jonathan Kanter)
Ishika Ray (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Yuichi Shoda)
Loranzie Rogers (Animal Behavior Area with Joseph Sisneros)
Pete Rosencrans (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner)
Adam Smiley (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Cheryl Kaiser)
Noah Triplett (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Liying Wang (Adult Clinical Area with Jane Simoni)
Cher Yang (Cognition and Perception Area with Andrea Stocco)
Graduated with Doctoral Degrees
Adriana Germano (Social Psychology and Personality Area with Sapna Cheryan)
Miranda Johnson (Cognition and Perception Area with John Palmer)
Hilary Lambert (Child Clinical Area with Kate McLaughlin)
Rosemary Meza (Child Clinical Area with Shannon Dorsey)
Krystal Parrish (Child Clinical Area with Liliana Lengua)
Matthew Peverill (Child Clinical Area with Kate McLaughlin)
Patrick Rice (Cognition and Perception Area with Andrea Stocco)
Rosie Walker (Adult Clinical Area with Lori Zoellner)