Twenty-two??!

What's so special about the number 22? It's the number we were all celebrating in lab meeting this week. It is the number of kids recruited and tested IN ONE DAY by the dream team of Elisa, Julia and Paula, led by awesome graduate student Ashley. WAY TO GO!

As if that weren't enough, the same team tested another 10 kids on Sunday, for a total of 32 over a single weekend! Unbelievable!

UROP 2017

Suttera, Julia and Alleah presenting a study on infants' social preferences 

Saturday was the annual conference of the UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Our lab was well represented, and several of our posters were chosen to go up on display in Aldrich Hall. Way to go, Lab!

SoCal 2017

A bunch of our researchers drove down to UCSD for SoCal 2017, hosted by Prof. David Barner's Language and Development Lab. (Thanks for hosting!) And congratulations to all the presenters at SoCal, from our lab and all the other labs, for sharing their work and embiggening everyone's knowledge. Go Team Science!

Amy and Shirley presenting their poster on the Child Risk Utility Measure, or CRUM. (Get it? It's a game with Cookie Monster and it's called CRUM. We're cracking ourselves up over here.)  

Gorgeous Gothenburg

This week I was in Sweden, presenting our research at the Fifth Annual Gothenburg AMBLE symposium on reading, mathematics and the developing brain. Sweden was beautiful, clean, cold, and politically progressive. It was also very expensive, and everyone I saw was white. It was basically a giant Whole Foods grocery store. 

Professor Orangebottom

This week our lab meeting was visited by distinguished scholar Fuzzy Puppet Orangebottom, who helped the undergraduate research assistants (RAs) practice giving 'elevator talk' summaries of their research projects.

Rejection Cake

Some of us in the lab have experienced multiple rejections lately. Grants not funded, jobs not offered, fellowships not awarded, papers and conference submissions getting the big thumbs down. So we took some time last week to celebrate our rejections . . .