Dr. Adrienne Bonar successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Effects of childhood threat exposure on neural representations of emotion.” We are so proud of the CASL’s newly minted PhD! Dr. Bonar will be a postdoc next year at The Ohio State University!
Ruofan Ma receives Searcy Fellowship
Ruofan Ma received the John Daniel Searcy Fellowship from the North Carolina Psychological Association. The Searcy Fellowship supports a student in their final years of doctoral training in clinical psychology. Congrats to Ruofan!
Dr. Frye gets hooded
Congrats to Dr. Natalie Frye, who was hooded during the doctoral hooding ceremony by Dr. Kristen Lindquist. Dr. Frye is embarking on a career in industry as a behavioral scientist. We’re sad to see her leave but excited to see what is next for her career!
Mariam Wahba Receives Award for Best Senior Honors Thesis
Senior Honors Thesis student, Mariam Wahba, receive the Dashiell-Thurstone Award for the Best Thesis in Psychology in the 2024-2025 year. Mariam’s thesis focused on how having a multi-cultural identity can prime cognitive flexibility by increasing creativity and emotion regulation success. Congrats, Mariam!
Lab senior honors thesis students graduate
Congrats to Nina Song, Dujana Buheis, Grace Chow, Mariam Wahba, and Jennifer Fan, who all successfully completed senior honors theses in 2024-2025! This group of bright scholars are all embarking on what will surely be successful careers in science and medicine!
Congrats to Dr. Ruofan Ma!
Dr. Ruofan Ma successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Implications of Neural, Psychological, and Physiological Self-Other Representations in Interpersonal Relationships.” We are so proud of the CASL’s newly minted PhD! Dr. Ma will be doing her clinical internship next year at The Ohio State University!
Gretchen Wulfekuhle receives NSF Graduate research fellowship!
Gretchen Wulfekuhle received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States by supporting training of graduate students in the sciences. It will support Gretchen’s stipend and tuition for the next 3 years. Congrats, Gretchen!
The lab presents at SAS 2025!
Graduate-level and undergraduate-level lab members present their newest work at the Society for Affective Science in Portland! See what we’ve got in the works for forthcoming work!
Thursday, March 20th
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Congrats to Dr. Natalie Frye!
Dr. Natalie Frye successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Prospective brain network, social, and individual predictors of depression in adolescence.” We are so proud of the CASL’s newly minted PhD!
We're hiring!
We are hiring a post-bacc research assistant, to be located at the new Affective Science Lab at The Ohio State University. See here for more information and to apply.
