Graduate student, Raegan V. Harrington, M.A., was awarded a 2022-2023 Spring Graduate Research Grant from Psi Chi, an international honor society in psychology. The grant will support direct costs of her dissertation project, Show Me You Care: Adolescent Empathy and Friendship, which is mentored by Dr. Schwartz-Mette in the Peer Relations Lab. The project will help […]
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The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) named UMaine the 2022 recipient of its Student Diversity Initiative Award, which includes $2,500 for the recruitment and retention project. Patricia Goodhines, an assistant professor of clinical psychology, and Liv Valö, a Ph.D. student who chairs the doctoral program’s graduate student Diversity Committee, are leading the effort […]
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Congratulations to undergraduate student and first author, Zoe Prat, and the team of graduate and undergraduate students in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay), for their poster “No More Excu-SES: It’s Time to Address Class and Cognitive Function” presented at the UMaine symposium.
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Congratulations to Angel Boeve in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay), for her poster presentation “Investigating The Mechanisms Linking Regular Sleep Patterns With Daytime Physical Activity In Older Adults” at the UMaine symposium.
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Graduate student, Amy Halpin, was awarded the UMSS22 Best Graduate Presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities for her poster presentation entitled: Now or Later? Decision-Making Preferences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Congratulations Amy and the team of graduate and undergraduate students in the CARE Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca MacAulay) who worked on this project!
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Care for Maine’s older adults A KEY COMPONENT of the University of Maine’s contribution to research on healthy rural aging in Maine is the Cognition Aging Resiliency and Enhancement (CARE) Lab. It is directed by assistant professor of psychology Rebecca MacAulay, whose research focuses on understanding factors that increase risk and resilience to cognitive decline […]
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Congratulations to Michelle Stage, who was awarded a NASA/Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for summer 2022 for “Going Where No Person has Gone Before: Supporting Diverse Identities and Perspectives in Aspiring NASA Students”. Michelle states “There is a gap in the literature exploring marginalized students’ perspectives pursuing planetary sciences. In order to support NASA’s commitment […]
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“From theory to trials to community implementation and global dissemination” by John Pachankis, Ph.D. Register HERE for the 2022 Stanley Sue Lecture Series
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been an isolating and lonely time for almost everyone. For adolescents especially, the loneliness accompanied by pandemic-related school closures and the like has led to an increase in mental health issues like depression and self-destructive behavior, according to a University of Maine-led study. Read more here.
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WMTW reported on researchers at the University of Maine who are working with schools across the state to assess how students are doing with their mental health and well-being, and what schools need to do to support them. Rebecca Schwartz-Mette is the director of the UMaine Peer Relations Lab, which goes into schools to work […]
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