Some of our lovely RAs and lab manager recently graduated from UBC! We are so proud and cannot wait to see all the amazing things you accomplish.
Alice Luan, Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology
Christina Felber, Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Neuroscience
Kailey Farrell, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Education
Dabeen Hyun, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Kyra Gert, Bachelor of Science in Behavioural Neuroscience
Congrats to lab alumni Zoe Dong! Zoe has accepted an admissions offer from the Yale School of Public Health to study Chronic Disease Epidemiology.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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!