News and Events

Neke Nsor successfully defended her dissertation on April 9th, 2025! She is officially Dr. Nsor!!! We cannot wait to see all she accomplishes. 

Anna Toledo officially committed on April 1st, 2025 to the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany to pursue her graduate studies in psychology. Congratulations, Anna!

The Center for Research and Fellowships awarded research assistant Bekah Kim with a Royden B. Davis Summer Fellowship on March 28th, 2025 to investigate emotion experience and regulation in couples, where one partner has a neurodegenerative disease. Way to go Bekah!

Annika Allen and Matthew Kiely had an outstanding showing at the 2025 Society for Affective Science conference in Portland, Oregon, held the weekend of March 21st, with Annika winning Best Thematic Flash Talk and Matt being runner-up for Best Poster, New Idea!

Neke Nsor won an Editor's Choice Award for her manuscript, The Effects of APOE Alleles, Cognitive Activities, and Social Activities on Cognitive Decline in African Americans, on March 20th, 2025!! The manuscript appeared in January 2025's issue of The Journals of Gerontology.

Research Assistant Colin Cox won a Center for Research Fellowship's Summer Mentored Research Fellowship on March 10th, 2025 to study how measures of social well-being predict the trajectory of positive affect in dementia caregivers. Congratulations, Colin!

Congratulations to Neke Nsor for completing her first-author manuscript in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Barnes and Dr. Casey Brown!!

First year graduate student Matt Kiely received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention for his proposal on Interpersonal Emotion Regulation! Go Matt!!!

The Alzheimer's Association has selected Neke Nsor as an ISTAART Ambassador! What a prestigious honor for Neke! 

Neke Nsor is on a roll! She was selected as an Emerging Scholar for the Black Men's Brain Health Initiative. Here she is presenting her research at the Society for Neuroscience Conference.

The lab welcomes our first Post-baccalaureate Research Fellow, Anna Toledo! Anna's work is funded by a research supplement from the National Institute on Aging to study emotion regulation and cognitive functioning in dementia caregivers. Congratulations, Anna!

Neke Nsor has been awarded a research supplement from the National Institute on Aging for her research on emotional and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia! This award will support her doctoral research and training for 2 years. Great accomplishment!

Congratulations to Pierson Cohen for being awarded Georgetown University's Summer Mentored Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SMURF) to work on his honors thesis project!

PhD candidate, Neke Nsor, has received a travel award to attend the Risk and Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans Conference in Rutgers University-Newark! Have an amazing trip and presentation, Neke!

Current lab manager, Hannah Cozad, will be starting graduate school to attain a doctorate in clinical psychology. Congratulations Hannah!