New publication hot off the press by Cassie Hendrix, a former post-bac lab assistant who is currently finishing her Ph.D. at Emory University. See more here

Dr. Alyssa Ailion will start in the fall as an Attending Neuropsychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) / Harvard Medical School in their Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology. She will provide neuropsychological evaluations for epilepsy patients and the surgical team, as well as conduct clinical fMRI research as her primary academic focus. Congratulations on this awesome accomplishment, Alyssa!

Fourth-year student, Eric Semmel, was selected to receive a fellowship for his fifth year funded by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. The fellowship, called the Training in Integrated Pediatric Psychology Services (TIPPS) fellowship, focuses on the provision of psychological services to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Congratulations to Stephanie Steinberg on her first peer reviewed publication! Click on the photo for more info.

Sarah Clark, a graduate student co-advised by Drs. Jessica Turner and Tricia King, recently published the results of her general exam in Neuropsychology Review, entitled Cerebellar Contributions to Proactive and Reactive Control in the Stop Signal Task: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Congrats on a fantastic contribution to the field, Sarah!

Originally from Minneapolis, Olivia obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Neuroscience and Classical Studies from Colgate University in 2017. During her undergraduate career, Olivia worked on several projects studying traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder at the University of Minnesota and Baylor College of Medicine. Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, she joined the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, where she worked as the Recruitment and Retention Coordinator for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project. Olivia is excited to join the King Lab at GSU as a Ph.D. student in clinical neuropsychology in the Fall of 2020. Her research interests include utilizing multimodal neuroimaging techniques to investigate later-life cognitive, behavioral, and mood outcomes in pediatric brain tumor survivors.

We’re looking forward to having Olivia begin her graduate studies with us this fall!

One of our fantastic undergraduate assistants, Courtney Keeler, was just accepted into Columbia University’s M.A. program in clinical psychology with an advanced certificate in Sexuality, Women, and Gender. We are so excited for Courtney as she moves to NYC to begin the next phase of her career!

Happy match day! Michelle Fox, a sixth year in the lab, found out this morning that she matched for internship at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. We are so proud of Michelle and everything she has accomplished as she sets off on this new experience!

New paper out by third-year student Rella Kautiainen! This work is based on her master’s thesis and identifies sex-specific effects in looking at SNPs and verbal intelligence outcomes. Well done, Rella.

Click on the screenshot below for a link to the paper!