See coverage of recent work highlighted by NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/students-who-tackle-shooters-die-heroes-some-experts-worry-we-n1003951
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Work by Dr. Casey and former students, Dr. Ali Cohen and Michael Dreyfuss, showing reactive action of young people under threat is highlighted by NBC News
05/2019
Dr. Casey’s article in Neuron on Healthy Development as a Human Right: Lessons from Developmental Science
05/2019
See Dr. Casey highlighted in Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cognitive-neuroscientist-warns-us-ju...
Healthy brain development is a human right, argues Dr. Casey
05/2019
See Dr. Casey’s article in Neuron highlighted in https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/cp-hbd051619.php
Graduate Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives SPSP Diversity Travel Award
02/2019
Award name: SPSP Diversity Travel Award
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas
PhD student Estée Rubien-Thomas was recently awarded a travel award to attend and present her research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, which will take place in Portland, OR this winter.
ABCD Study Highlighted in 60 Minutes & New York Times
12/2018
See NY Times coverage of recent work by the ABCD study on screen time: Is Screen Time Bad for Kid’s Brains?
Ph.D. Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives Yale Dean's Emerging Scholars Award
11/2018
Award name: Yale University Dean's Emerging Scholars Award
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas
Dr. Casey’s Adolescent Brain Research is Highlighted in NEUWRITE
08/2018
Research by Dr. Casey and colleagues covered: When is an adolescent an adult and implications for juvenile justice
Dr. Casey Quoted in Time
09/2017
Dr. Casey is quoted in Time article "Why Teenage Brains are so Hard to Understand" on the complexities of the teen brain and opportunities.
ABCD Study Staff Member of the Month
09/2017
Recipient: May Conley
Congratulations to May Conley, who "for her 24 hour help to all 21 sites with the imaging tasks, their optimization for each site and her help developing and validating 1700 diverse face stimuli for the ABCD emotional n-back task" recieved the ABCD Study Staff Member of the Month Recognition!
Drs. Cohen & Casey Research Covered in New York Times
04/2017
See work on the young adult brain by FAB Lab members, first author Ali Cohen and senior author BJ Casey, covered in the New York Times: "A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science"