DML News

2021

• Graduating senior, Shiba Esfand, has accepted a full-time Research Assistant position at McLean Hospital’s Lab for Affective and Translational Neuroscience! Congrats Shiba!

2020

• Rakiya Washington has been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for her Summer 2021 research project in the Developing Minds Lab! Congrats Rakiya!
• Gracie Blades has been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for her Fall 2020 research project in the Developing Minds Lab! Congrats Gracie!
• The Developing Minds Lab just released our 2019-2020 Newsletter! Read it Here!
• Dr. Tashauna Blankenship has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Massachusetts Boston, beginning Spring 2021! Congrats Tashauna!
• Kate Cropp and Jiaqi Zhao have been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for their spring 2020 research projects in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Kate and Jiaqi!
• Dr. Tashauna Blankenship, Dr. Chen Cheng, Praveen Kenderla, and Shiba Esfand had their abstracts accepted for poster presentations at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting.

2019

• The Developing Minds Lab just released our 2018-2019 Newsletter! Read it here!

2018

• Dr. Tashauna Blankenship has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Congratulations, Tashauna!
• Dr. Melissa Kibbe has been awarded the Templeton CAS Award for Excellence in Student Advising! Congratulations, Dr. Kibbe!
• Jessica Beal has been named the 2018 Outstanding Teaching Fellow. Congratulations, Jess!
• Graduating senior Alexis Smith has accepted a Laboratory Manager position with the Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Child Development! Congratulations, Alexis!
• Shiba Esfand has been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for her summer research project in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Shiba!
• The Developing Minds Lab just released our 2017-2018 Newsletter! Read it here!
• Dr. Tashauna Blankenship and Jessica Beal have both had their abstracts accepted for poster presentations at this year’s International Conference on Infant Studies in Philadelphia! Congratulations, Jess and Tashauna!
• Dr. Tashauna Blankenship’s abstract for her work on multiple object tracking in children was just accepted! She will be presenting a poster on her findings at the Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Congratulations, Tashauna!
• Shiba Esfand has been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for her spring research project in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Shiba!

2017

• Olivia Soledad and Katie Harper have been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for their fall research projects in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Olivia and Katie!
• Alexis Smith and Jess Beal presented some of their findings at the Cognitive Development Society in Portland, Oregon! Congratulations Jess and Alexis!
• Alexis Smith has been invited to be on the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Team at the Boston Child Study Center as a clinical assistant! Congrats, Alexis!
• Jenny Reavis was recently inducted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Congrats, Jenny!

Older

• Rinatte Gruen was one of twelve BU seniors to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in Fall 2016. Congrats, Rinatte!
• Lab alum Danyele Homer is a co-author on a recent paper accepted for publication in the journal Behavior Modification. She also recently presented her research at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference. Congratulations, Danyele!
• Rinatte Gruen and Alexis Smith have again been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for their spring research projects in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Rinatte and Alexis!!
• Rinatte Gruen and Alexis Smith have been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for their fall research projects in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Rinatte and Alexis!
• Lab manager Michaela Buckley has been accepted into the PhD program in School Psychology at Fordham University. She will start the program in Fall 2016. Congratulations, Michaela!
• Graduating senior Rachel Gordon has accepted a Laboratory Manager position with the BC Infant and Child Cognition Lab. Congratulations, Rachel!
• Alexis Smith has been accepted as a summer Research Assistant with the UCLA Baby Lab. Congratulations, Alexis!
• Madison Newell will work as a Research Assistant with the Neurocognition, Early Experience, Development (NEED) lab at Columbia University this summer. Congratulations, Madison!
• Keara Russell and Su Bin Jin have been awarded funding from Boston University UROP for their summer research projects in the Developing Minds Lab! Congratulations, Keara and Su Bin!