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Blake Glatley
Area: Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Allison Ryan
Research: I study youths' friendship during the K-College years and how they can support students' academic adjustment and performance.
Harini Babu
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz
Research: My research investigates the relationship between neurostimulation and excitatory neurotransmitters (i.e., Glu) and their subsequent effect on brain activity in older adults, both those with healthy aging and those with mild cognitive impairment (in collaboration with Dr. Alexandru Iordan). Through this work, I aim to advance our understanding of why memory declines with age and the interventions that may preserve/enhance memory performance.
Neema Prakash
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Deldin
Research: My research focuses on the assessment, development, and implementation of minority-focused mental health interventions. I am most interested in creating interventions that address the unique cultural needs of different communities. Part of that entails working with community partners to assess needs and create accessible interventions.
Hannah Becker
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Kate Fitzgerald and Dr. Christopher Monk
Research: I study psychotherapeutic treatments for anxiety and OCD in youth. I mostly use neuroimaging tools to examine brain changes that occur with, or predict response to, these interventions.
Kali Sarver
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz
Research: My research focuses on cognitive working memory and affective working memory (i.e., working memory for emotion) performance across the adult lifespan. Although some cognitive abilities tend to decline with age, working memory for emotion may be resilient to age-related declines, and a goal of mine is to investigate preserved abilities with the healthy aging process.
Dianna Alvarado
Area: Personality and Social Contexts
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Cokley
Research: Broadly, I study environmental factors that affect health and academic outcomes among students from underrepresented backgrounds. Recently, I examined how protective strategies (e.g., engaging in self-compassion practices) help students combat imposter feelings.
Jessica Bezek
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Luke Hyde
Research: I study how early life adversity influences brain development and risk for mental illness, with a particular focus on identifying neural mechanisms that support resilient outcomes in youth experiencing neighborhood disadvantage.
Keion Harris
Area: Joint Social Work and Developmental Psychology
Advisors: Dr. Daphne Watkins, Dr. Lorraine Gutierrez and Dr. Kevin Cokley
Research: I am interested in how local and state policy impacts health and educational outcomes for adolescent minority youth within Michigan and more specifically the city of Detroit.
Ana Patricia Esqueda
Area: Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Vonnie McLoyd and Dr. Lorraine Guitierrez
Research: My research explores how systems of oppression- namely those that devalue members of low socioeconomic status or racial minorities- impact the linguistic and social development of Latinos.
Jennifer Murray
Area: Biopsychology
Advisor: Dr. Natalie Tronson
Research: I study fear conditioning to understand what motivational or affective information, in addition to prediction, is included in a learned fear association. Unraveling these associations may help in understanding anxiety disorders and PTSD.
Lillian Guyen
Area: Personality & Social Contexts
Advisor: Dr. Gigi Awad; Dr. Craig Rodriguez-Seijas
Research: My research focuses on minority stress, identity processes, and belonging with an intersectional lens primarily among QTBIPOC and Asian American populations. I am most interested in how people's understanding of intersectionality informs their experiences and how we can empower and improve outcomes for people with multiple marginalized identities.
