Congratulations to several DEV graduate students for receiving year-long fellowships in the Science of Learning and Art of Communication (SLAC). These traineeships are part of a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant awarded to an inter-disciplinary team at UConn (click here for more details on SLAC).

DEV SLAC Fellows for 2020-2021: Emily Yearling & Kara Vlahcevic

DEV SLAC Fellows for 2021-2022: Cynthia Boo, Kelsey Davinson, & Maddie Quam

DEV SLAC Fellows for 2022-2023: Kaya LeGrand

Congratulations to Maddie and Katelyn on their successful MS Thesis defenses!

Maddie’s thesis was titled “The Role of Language in Object Tracking: Evidence from Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Typically Hearing Children” (Advisor: Marie Coppola).

Katelyn’s thesis was titled “Asexual Adolescents’ Identity Development and Social-Emotional Adjustment” (Advisor: Rhiannon Smith).

The Department of Psychological Sciences community gathered virtually on March 10th 2021 to hear an excellent collection of graduate student presentations from the Department’s graduate programs.

DEV’s very own Meaghan Perdue did a wonderful job representing DEV at the event with a talk on her research (“Correspondence between Structural and Functional Neural Correlates of Reading in Children”).

For a link to Meaghan’s and the other Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Colloquium talks, click here.