Our graduate students have been busy sharing their work at the Brains & Behavior retreat! Congratulations on your fabulous poster presentations

Congratulations to Stephanie Steinberg on her graduation from the GSU Clinical Psychology Program. Stephanie will begin her post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center this summer. We are so proud of you Stephanie!

Congratulations to Lindsay Smegal for her work on her recent publication in Neurobiology of Aging, entitled “Lower locus coeruleus integrity is associated with diminished practice effects in clinically unimpaired older individuals”. Check out the paper here.

Check out some of our lab’s recently published work, looking at social determinants of health in pediatric medulloblastoma patients (read more here) and in healthy young adults (read more here)! 

A huge congratulations to Dr. Rella Kautiainen who accepted a position at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, where she will be helping to build the Oncology program. We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to Olivia Haller for her successful internship match! Olivia has matched at VA San Diego/ University of California, San Diego in the VA Neuropsychology/ VA Primary Care (Primary Care Mental Health Integration) position. We are excited as Olivia takes the next step in continuing her impressive work! 

Stephanie Steinberg has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Congrats Stephanie, we are so proud of you!

We had so much fun exploring New Orleans and sharing our work with current lab members and alumni!

Lab alum, Dr. Eric Semmel, recently accepted an offer to stay on at Mayo Clinic as a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Psychology following the conclusion of his fellowship in August 2025. In his new role, he plans to build out a more formalized and integrated clinic with pediatric neuro-oncology (i.e., pediatric brain tumors), and further develop the pediatric inpatient consult service on the epilepsy monitoring unit. We’re so proud of you Eric!

It was great having everyone together to celebrate the end of the semester and kick off the holiday season. Thanks to everyone for their hard work this year and we hope you enjoy the time off.