Graduate Achievements
This page highlights recent first-author publications, PhD placements, and other news that promotes the success of our current graduate students, and recently graduated students.
Recent First-Author Publications
May. 23, 2023
Positive affect improves a transdiagnostic model of perinatal depression symptoms
Blaire Pingeton
May. 15, 2023
Trial history influences the malleability of gender differences in children’s mental rotation performance
Yaxin Liu
May. 15, 2023
Oxytocin receptor antagonism during early vocal learning reduces song preference and imitation in zebra finches
Natalie R. Pilgeram
Apr. 07, 2023
Polygenic influences on the behavioral effects of alcohol withdrawal in a mixed-ancestry population from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (COGA)
Chelsie Bachman
Feb. 16, 2023
Development of an online peer support program for adolescents with food allergies
Melissa Engel
Feb. 10, 2023
Rhesus monkeys with damage to amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex perform well on novelty-based memory tasks
Joshua Krasney
Feb. 07, 2023
Hippocampal Connectivity With the Default Mode Network Is Linked to Hippocampal Volume in the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Syndrome and Healthy Individuals
Katrina Aberizk
Oct. 21, 2022
Distribution of vasopressin 1a and oxytocin receptor protein and mRNA in the basal forebrain and midbrain of the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)
Jeanne Powell
Oct. 13, 2022
Maternal Adversity and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Predict Heightened Emotional Reactivity in Offspring: Implications for Intergenerational Transmission of Risk
Brooke McKenna
Oct. 11, 2022
Allele-specific cis-regulatory methylation of the gene for vasoactive intestinal peptide in white-throated sparrows
Mackenzie Prichard
Sep. 24, 2022
Support for learning under naturalistic conditions
Lucy Cronin-Golomb
Aug. 08, 2022
TNF-alpha Antagonist Infliximab Increases Willingness to Expend Effort in Patients with Depression and High Inflammation
Sarah Etuk
Feb. 10, 2022
The Retrograde Memory for News Events Test (RM-NET) and the relationship between news event memory and performance on standard neuropsychological tests
Andrew Cawley-Bennett
Oct. 29, 2021
Visual perception of apparent motion abides by minimization principles of geometry
Yaxin Liu
Oct. 08, 2021
Behavioral trajectories of aging prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Adapting behavior to social context wanes with advanced age
Jeanne Powell
Oct. 08, 2021
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus
Brandon Fricker
Oct. 05, 2021
When Anger Remains Unspoken Anger and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Among Stress-Exposed Black Americans
Brooke McKenna
Sep. 09, 2021
Paternal Borderline Symptoms and Offspring Outcomes in Young Adulthood
Elaine Johnson
Sep. 07, 2021
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism
Thomas Costello
Jun. 12, 2021
Psychological Distress Prospectively Predicts Later Sleep Quality in a Sample of Black American Postpartum Mothers
Madeleine F. Cohen
Postdoctoral Placements and Student Awards
Please join Emory Psychology in congratulating Nilo Vafaie and her mentor, Dr. Phil Kragel. Part of Nilo’s work that she is completeing for her Master's was not only accepted for presentation at the SANS, but also nominated for a data blitz, for which only top submissions are considered. Congratulations, Nilo!
Emory Psychology would like to welcome back Dr. Kristin Bonnie, Frans de Waal's former PhD student. She will be joining Emory Oxford's Faculty as new Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Acting Professor of Psychology at Oxford College of Emory University. It’s great to have Dr. Bonnie affiliated with Emory once again. Congratulations on your new appointment!
Please join the Psychology Department in congratulating Chaela Nutor, Ami Ikeda, and Jocelyn Stanfield, on their acceptance to attend the FRONTIERS IN ADDICTION RESEARCH AND PREGNANCY (FrARP), This NIH-sponsored advanced training course provides skills development, hands-on laboratory research taught and mentored by addiction research leaders, and ongoing mentoring resulting in comprehensive, sophisticated training in clinical and translational strategies for addressing the current challenges in addiction during pregnancy and for designing better therapies for the future. Congratulations, all!
Postdoctoral Placements
Congratulations to Katrina Aberizk (and her mentor, Dr. Elaine Walker) on being selected to receive a President’s Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP). Katrina was selected based on her outstanding research work.
Congratulations to Brandon Fricker who was chosen from over 7942 applications to receive the 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. It is a highly competitive award that recognizes his academic excellence.
The NDSEG Fellowship Program is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering. This program is administered by Systems Plus, Inc.
Congratulations to Melissa Engel who recently won the following four awards:
(i) 2021 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Strategic Plan Poster Award (recognized as exemplifying Interdisciplinary Research related to children’s development)(ii) 2021 Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP) Student Conference Award
(iii) SPP Diversity Poster Award, and
(iv) SPP Allergic Diseases Special Interest Group Poster Award
Congratulations to Lauren Bertin on being granted a Training in Advanced Data Analytics and Computational Sciences to End Drug-Related Harms (TADA) Fellowship!