Learn about what our amazing Research Assistants have been doing outside of DAS Lab!
Congratulations Tugu for graduating with a BA Major in Psychology and Minor in International Relations with Class I Standing and for being awarded the Faculty of Arts International Student Scholarship! Tugu also presented virtually at the UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference this March on The Efficacy of Mental Illness Stigma Interventions on Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective […]
Dr. Katerina Rnic presents at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention!
Dr. Rnic presented virtually at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention! Read about her project below:
Early life stress is associated with youth-onset depression for some types of stress but not others
New meta-analysis led by Dr. Joelle LeMoult finds that individuals exposed to early life stress (ELS) were more than twice as likely to develop a major depressive disorder in childhood or adolescence than youth who were not exposed to ELS […]
Maggie Coval presents at the Women’s Brain Health: Young Investigators Symposium!
Congratulations to research assistant, Maggie Coval for virtually presenting her poster on the Gender Differences in Depression During Pre-Adolescence: Associations Among Social Support, Self-Compassion, and Depression at the Women’s Brain Health: Young Investigators Symposium!
Congratulations to Ashley Battaglini on her achievements!
Congratulations to Masters student, Ashley Battaglini for winning a Psi Chi Spring Graduate Research Grant and for successfully defending her Master’s thesis on Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Recognition! Learn more about Ashley here.
Congratulations to Bita Zareian on her achievements!
Congratulations to Masters student, Bita Zareian for winning a Psi Chi Spring Graduate Research Grant and the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Grant! Bita also successfully defended her Master’s thesis on Coping with Stress: The Contribution of Cognitive Biases to Rumination! Learn more about Bita here.
Taylyn Jameson presents her research the Women’s Brain Health: Young Investigators Symposium
Learn more about Taylyn’s presentation on the Protective factor of resilience between adverse childhood experiences and anxiety symptoms in emerging adult women […]
Congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Katerina Rnic, on her achievements!
Congratulations to Dr. Katerina Rnic for obtaining a University of British Columbia Institute of Mental Health Marshall Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as for being awarded a University of Western Ontario Department of Psychiatry Seed Funding Grant alongside Dr. David Dozois for their research on Acute and Chronic Life Stress in the Course of Major Depressive […]
Research assistant, Jackson Hewitt, presents at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention!
Congratulations to Jackson for presenting his research on the Influence of Perceived Self-Competence on Psychological Well-Being in Adolescent Cancer Survivors! Learn more about his research in the poster below.
Congratulations to Ellen Jopling for being awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and more!
A big congratulations to PhD student Ellen Jopling for being awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Canadian Psychological Association – Certificate of Academic Excellence, and the Stanley Coren Prize in Psychology! Learn more about Ellen here.