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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.

Aug. 01, 2024

Relations of Lifetime Perceived Stress and Basal Cortisol With Hippocampal Volume Among Healthy Adolescents and Those at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Katrina Aberizk

Jul. 04, 2024

Examining the association between prenatal cannabis exposure and child autism traits: A multi-cohort investigation in the environmental influences on child health outcome program

Chaela Nutor

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

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

Postdoctoral Placements and Student Awards

Congratulations to Ami Ikeda who received the American Psychological Foundation (APF) 2024 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship. This fellowship aims to assist with her current work future endeavors in the field of psychology. Congrats, Ami!
Emory Psychology alum, Lauren Murphy has been named as one of Emory's 40 Under Forty! After graduating in 2018 from our neuroscience and animal behavior program under the mentorship of  Jocelyn Bachevalier, she has gone on to become the Associate Vice President for Material and uses her knowledge and passion for psychology to inform top brands on consumer perceptions and decision-making. Congratulations, Lauren!

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! 

Emory Psychology would like to congratulate Katherine Soderberg, Jocelyn Stanfield, and Chaela Nutor for for their outstanding work, resulting in NSF recognition. Katherine, working with her mentor Dr. Phil Kragel and Jocelyn, under the tutlege of Dr. Patricia Brennan have recieved awards, and Chaela was granted an Honorable Mention for their submissions. Congratulations, all! 
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Congratulations to Chaela Nutor on winning the 2021 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Best Poster Award!
The Psychology department would like to congratulate recent graduate Jennifer Merritt, who studied under Dr. Donna Maney during her time with Emory Psychology. She has been named as the recipient of the W. C. Young Recent Graduate Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. This is a highly competitive award, given to one recent graduate per year, and a great honor. Congratulations, Jennifer! 

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.