Rachael Turner successfully defended her Comprehensive Exam today. Passing comps is a huge step along the way to earning a PhD. She is officially a doctoral candidate. Way to go, Rachael!

Riley Wyatt presented research at the 2023 meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association in Frisco, Texas. Riley's work demonstrated links between between personality, strategy use, and remembering to attend appointments.

Rachael Turner successfully defended her Comprehensive Exam today. Passing comps is a huge step along the way to earning a PhD. She is officially a doctoral candidate. Way to go, Rachael!

We are excited to announce that Micaela Andreo graduated from OSU with her bachelor’s in Psychology! She will be attending the University of Texas at Dallas to work towards a doctorate in Cognitive Psychology. Her mentor will be Dr. Chandramilika Basak in the school of Brain and Behavioral Sciences. We congratulate her and wish her the best in this next step in academia!

Congratulations to Rachael Turner who won an OSU Women's Faculty Council Student Research Award for her work on Caregiver Preparedness during the Covid-19 Pandemic. This work examined whether informal caregivers of adults with dementia or disabilities were prepared for the reduced access to resources that came with lockdowns and how caregiver burden and resilience were related to preparedness.

Rachael Turner successfully defended her thesis on Factors associated with caregiver stress and self-reported cognition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Congratulations Rachael!

Dr. Erin Harrington has accepted an exciting postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State! Erin will be a Postdoctoral Scholar of Biobehavioral Health, Stress, Immunity, and Aging under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Graham-Engeland and Dr. Christopher Engeland in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development. Congratulations, Erin! You earned it!

Erin Harrington successfully defended her dissertation on parental division of prospective memory demands and consequences of familial remembering. Congratulations, Dr. Harrington!

Congratulations to our research assistants who attended the virtual Oklahoma Psychological Society conference and received the second-place poster award for their work: How do participants remember to show up? An examination of prospective memory strategy use. Wonderful job, Erin, Emery, and Vanessa!

Congratulations, Erin Harrington, for being selected for a 2020 Robberson Summer Dissertation Fellowship. As part of this fellowship, Erin will receive $6,000 to support her dissertation work, which focuses on prospective memory demands and parenting. Keep it up!

We are thrilled to announce that Emery Thackerson has accepted a graduate student position at Oklahoma State University! She will be working with Dr. James Grice beginning in Fall 2020. We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to Erin Harrington for being selected for the inaugural David G. Thomas Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship. This award recognizes a student who has demonstrated excellence in coursework, teaching, service, and scholarship. We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to Erin Harrington for receiving an honorable mention for her submission to the Janet Hyde Graduate Student Research Grant. Keep up the great work!

We are thrilled to announce that Rachael Turner has officially joined the lab as a graduate student. We are so excited to have you! Check out Rachael's bio on our Lab Members page.

Congratulations to our research assistants who attended the Oklahoma Psychological Society conference and received a second-place poster award for their work titled: Survival processing: Is there a kinship-processing memory advantage?

Congratulations to graduate student Erin Harrington for begin awarded the Vickie M. Little teaching award!

Lab members Erin Harrington, Maddison Detwiler, Amelia Kurk, Vanessa Lay, and Jon Schneider took home the first place poster award at the Oklahoma Psychological Society (OPS) Conference. Way to go!