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.
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Graduate Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives SPSP Diversity Travel Award
02/2019
Award name: SPSP Diversity Travel Award
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas
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"
Ph.D. Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
03/2017
Award name: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas
Congratulations to Estée Rubien-Thomas who received a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Dr. Casey Quoted in NPR
10/2016
Dr. Casey quoted in NPR article, "Teens Penchant for Risk Taking May Help Them Learn Faster," on importance of recent study published in Neuron by former fellows Drs. Adriana Galvan (now on faculty at UCLA) and Juliette Davidow (now postdoc at Harvard) together with Dr. Daphna Shohamy (Columbia) on enhanced learning by adolescents over adults.
ABCD Study Led by Dr. Casey Highlighted by Yale News
09/2016
See coverage of the ABCD Study to follow at Yale, led by Dr. Casey, in Yale News article, "Yale Chosen as Research Site for 'the Manhattan Project' of Brain Imaging."