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Snowmageddon may have us all bundled up and dreaming of warmer days, but the incredible accomplishments of our graduate students over the past few months are more than enough to warm us up. As we make our way through February, I’m excited to highlight what our graduate students have been able to accomplish.

Publications

• Huang, L., Chen, E., Hayen, R., Kim, J., Passarelli, V., & Lam, P. H. (Revise and resubmit). Peer racial representation at school, social experiences, and inflammation among Black adolescents. Health Psychology.
• Yunusova, A., Levinthal, D., Lam, P., Brown, K. W., Branson, Z., Wu, S., Sanov, B., Liccione, A., Dutcher, J., M., Lindsay E. K., Creswell, J. D. (Revise and resubmit). Beyond chronic stress: Daily stress prospectively predicts symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
• Yunusova, A., Huang, C., Price, S., Joshi, K., Dutcher, J. M., Brown, K. W., Villalba, D. K., Tumminia, M. J., Creswell, K. G., Cohen, S., & Creswell, J. D. (Revise and resubmit). Depression trajectories and their associations with academic performance and sleep patterns among first year college students. BMC Psychology.

Conference Presentations

• Kushani Shah will be presenting a poster titled "The Role of Trait Impulsivity in Craving, Attentional Bias, and Smoking Behavior" at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, to be held in March in Baltimore, MD.
• Emefa Akwayena will be presenting a talk titled “Grasping unseen physical properties of objects: The role of the ventral visual pathway in object-directed action” at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, to be held in March in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Mady Davis-Troller will be presenting a poster titled "Using fNIRS to assess children's frontal connectivity while viewing digital media" (co-authors: Molly Niehaus, Smrithi Krishnaswamy, Dhanya Charan, Andres Torres, and Erik Thiessen) at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, to be held in April in Montreal, Canada.
• Anjuli Niyogi will be presenting a talk on how strategies are discovered during motor learning at the Neural Control of Movement conference, to be held in April in Kobe, Japan.
• Emiliano Irena Hernandez will be presenting a poster titled "The effects of experiencing gender identity-based stress on decision-making" with Dr. Mikey Trujillo at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference, to be held in February in Chicago, IL.
• Maria Chroneos presented a poster titled "Naturalistic visual search after childhood hemispherectomy" at the American Epilepsy Society meeting, held this past December in Atlanta, GA.
• Asal Yunusova submitted an abstract titled "Predictors of bowel-movement distress in IBS: Episode characteristics, stress, and symptom severity in daily life" to the Digestive Disease Week conference, to be held in May.

Grants & Awards

• Anjuli Niyogi received the Neural Control of Movement Scholarship.

Professional Development

• Emefa Akwayena completed a research rotation with Dr. Rich Ivry at UC Berkeley as part of the Carnegie Prize Fellowship.

Dissertation Developments

• Dr. Fiona Horner successfully defended her dissertation and presented her dissertation showcase titled “Time-Varying Psychosocial Predictors of Blood Glucose Among Adults with Type 1 Diabetes“ in January. She has started a behavioral scientist position at Oura.
• Dr. Sophie Robert successfully defended her dissertation and presented her dissertation showcase titled "Functional Organization of Large-Scale Cortical Networks After Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: A Naturalistic fMRI Approach" in January.