Dr. Joseph Leshin graduated from UNC in August and has officially moved on from the CASL. He will join Dr. Alex Rodman’s lab at Northeastern as a postdoctoral associate on September 1. We look forward to our continued collaborations and wish you best of luck with your new work!
Congrats to Haley and Katie, high school summer interns in the CASL
High school students, Katie and Hayley, joined the CASL for 6 weeks this summer through WinSPIRE, a program at UNC that supports high school students from underrepresented genders in STEM. Here they are pictured presenting their neural network findings at the closing ceremony. Thanks to graduate student Mallory Feldman for supervising them!
Congrats to Dr. Joseph Leshin!
Joseph Leshin successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Context effects on the neural basis of emotion!” Dr. Leshin will be joining the lab of Dr. Alexandra Rodman at Northeastern University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the fall, where he will study the influence of neural and social processes in adolescent emotion development. We will be so sad to see Joseph leave, but are really excited to see where this new work takes him!
Congrats to Dr. Gaby Alvarez!
Gabriella Alvarez successfully defended her dissertation entitled “From inequality to inflammation: Exploring internal and external contributions to affective processing!” Dr. Alvarez will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. We are so sad to see her go but are so excited to see the work she and her new lab will do!
Dr. Alvarez pictured with Dr. Keely Muscatell
The CASL says goodbye to Maria and Courtney!
The CASL is sad to say goodbye to Maria Sobrino and Courtney Medina, who have worked on our project on child and adolescent socioemotional development for the past two years. Maria is off to start a PhD at CUNY, where they will study sexual and gender identity, stigma, and health behaviors with Dr. Sarit Golub. Courtney is off to start a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, where she will study adolescent mental health, sexual and gender identity, and relationships with Dr. Sophie Choukas-Bradley. We’re sad to see you go, Maria and Courtney, but can’t wait to see where your careers will take you!
Maria Sobrino
Courtney Medina
Amrita Mani presents her Senior honors thesis work
Senior Amrita Mani presented her thesis at the UNC Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Senior Honors Thesis poster session. Amrita is graduating with Highest Honors and will attend the University of Pittsburgh Medical School to pursue an MD in family medicine next year. We are so excited for her!
Dr. Kristen Lindquist named the next President of the Society for Affective Science
Dr. Kristen Lindquist officially became the President Elect of the Society for Affective Science at the recent convention in Long Beach, CA.
Dr. Jessica Flannery receives a NIDA National Research Service Award!
Dr. Jessica Flannery was awarded a prestigious NRSA to support her work on the neurobiological impact of acute digital media abstinence among college students. Congrats, Jessica!
Michelle Shipkova receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congrats to graduate student, Michelle Shipkova, who received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! The fellowship will support Michelle’s graduate training for the next 3 years.
Amrita Mani successfully defends her thesis
Senior honors thesis student, Amrita Mani, successfully defended her thesis entitled “Emotion as a Moderator Between Perceived Discrimination and Mental Health Outcomes.” Amrita is pictured here with graduate student mentor, Adrienne Bonar, and Dr. Lindquist.
