A huge congratulations to undergraduate RAs Kyra Gert, Alice Luan, Christina Felber, Kailey Farrell, and Dabeen Hyun on graduating! We are so proud, and cannot wait to see what you do next.
April 2025: Congratulations Zoe!
Congrats to lab alumni Zoe Dong! Zoe has accepted an admissions offer from the Yale School of Public Health to study Chronic Disease Epidemiology.
April 2025: Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
Undergraduate students Taima and Kyra showcased their research at this year’s Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference. Taima presented a poster on the relationship between age-based unfair treatment and depressive symptoms, and Kyra shared a poster examining the role of loneliness in working memory function. Congratulations to Taima, who received the top poster award!
March 2025: Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine Annual Meeting
At this year’s Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine conference, PhD student Nikki Stuart presented two posters—one on stressors and working memory performance, and another on subjective age and working memory—while PhD student Lydia Ong presented her work on self-perceptions of aging and daily events. Both were featured in the Citation Poster Session, a session reserved for research of the highest merit. In addition, our undergraduate student, Alice, showcased her research on positive experiences and cognition in everyday life.
February 2025: Healthy Aging Research Day
Undergraduate students Alice Luan and Taima Gheriani presented their research at the UBC Healthy Aging Research Day, hosted by the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging!
November 2024: BC Brain Wellness Program
Dr. Sin and PhD student Nikki Stuart will be giving a presentation for the BC Brain Wellness Program’s Research Seminar Series. Their presentation will focus on the cycle of sleep, stress, and cognitive functioning in everyday life.
November 2024: Gerontological Society of America Conference
Members of the UPLIFT Health Lab will be attending the GSA conference in Seattle! We will cheer on PhD student Lydia Ong for her symposium presentation about self-perceptions of aging and daily social interactions.
October 2024: Nikki Stuart publishes paper in Psychosomatic Medicine
PhD student Nikki Stuart has published new research in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001338). Her paper examines the associations between stressors and subjective cognitive function in everyday life, and whether physical activity buffers against stressor-related cognitive effects.
September 2024: Lydia Ong awarded internship funding for anti-racism in healthcare
Congrats to Lydia Ong on receiving MITACS internship funding! The funding will support her work with Vancouver Coastal Health on the project, “Evaluating an anti-racism training for healthcare workers.”
Aug 2024: Jin Wen graduates PhD program
Jin Wen successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “Reciprocal Associations Between Nightly Sleep and Daily Stress: Individual Differences and Mechanisms.” He has now graduated the PhD program and is starting his new job as a biostatistician! Congrats to Dr. Wen!