Congratulations to Dr. Qinxin Shi

Congratulations to Dr. Qinxin Shi

The good news keeps piling up for Qinxin as she passed her defense with flying colors on the 22nd of June. We are extremely proud of Qinxin. She’s been a model student in many ways and, as was acknowledged in the post-defense reception, has inspired many young...

Qinxin’s hat-trick!

Woah, Qinxin finally found the goal posts and scored an impressive 3 papers in the span of 6 weeks for the developmental project! The papers examined the role of ego-resiliency in predicting developmental trajectories of prosocial, internalizing, externalizing, and...

New website!

Dear visitor, we hope you like our new website! If you do, please thank our Lucy Chen and the CEHD marketing and communications team! If you don’t, well…  get some ice cream and get over it soon! Unfortunately, we were not able to transfer all old news...
Lucy and Mia presented poster at TAMIN Symposium

Lucy and Mia presented poster at TAMIN Symposium

The NLD has been actively disseminating her work! After Qinxin presented in Washington, Lucy and Mia successfully presented their poster entitled ‘Was that a cookie?! On the neuroscience of attentional bias in obese adolescents’ at the annual TAMIN...

Drs Palma and Woltering awarded 1.2m RDF grant!

Good news! I received the official word that Dr. Palma and myself (dual PIs) were awarded 1.2 million dollars from the Research Development Fund. This was a large effort on our part that involved multiple colleges and departments. In line with the NLD’s mission,...