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Dr. Casey highlights what scientists are facing with COVID-19 in the APA Monitor
01/2021
Dr. BJ Casey receives The Lifetime Achievement Mentor Award from APS
12/2020
Award name: The Lifetime Achievement Mentor Award
Recipient: BJ Casey, PhD
Dr. Kristina Rapuano’s new study in PNAS on brain microstructure predicting later weight gain in children is highlighted
10/2020
Dr. Casey's work on the emerging adult brain is highlighted in the New Yorker:
06/2020
Dr. Casey says long sentences for juvenile offenders is challenged by evidence from developmental science
09/2019
See Dr. Casey's article highlighted in https://www.searchlightnm.org/life-behind-bars
Dr. Casey receives the 2019 Huttenlocher lecture award for outstanding contributions in the field of Developmental Cognitve Neuroscience from Flux: The Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
08/2019
Award name: Hottenlocher Lecture Award
Recipient: BJ Casey, PhD
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
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
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.