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Summer 2023
- Congratulations to the following lab members for their amazing accomplishments:
- Jeffrey Lock and Noor Jassim for completing their senior theses
- Jua’Chelle Harmon for receiving the Dr. Toni Stokes scholarship
- Aminata Doumbouya for being awarded an Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program scholarship
- Sarah Freeman for passing her qualifying exam and being awarded the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan student award grant for her dissertation
- All of our 2023 graduates: Maddie Hannapel, Noor Jassim, Joely Reznik, Erin Neis, Dana Manning, and Haley Rohde
- Welcome new lab members DeNasia Spidell, Haley Klann, Grace Matthews, Emily Dionne, Tristan Janisse, Hadlie Daigle, and Erica Overholt!
Winter 2023
- Welcome new lab members Jua'Chelle Harmon, Theresa Moon, Kathryn Gladd, Haley Rohde, and Mieke Karth!
Fall 2022
- Congratulations to Dr. Lawler for being awarded a grant from the Ethel & James Flinn Foundation to continue her work expanding access to and evaluating early childhood mental health services in Ypsilanti!
- Welcome new lab members Lisa Liu, Kulsoom Haqqi, Zainab Almayahi, Noressa Keglar, Sarah Engels, Somaya Eissa, Emily Sokol, Claire Maciolek, Jamie Cremeans, Brynna Bashore, Dana Manning, Aminata Doumbouya, and Antonia Gitau!
Summer 2022
- Huge congratulations to the following SEED Lab members for their recent accomplishments:
- Aidan Schmitt for successfully matching for Internship
- Bree McGee for graduating from the Clinical Behavioral Master's Program
- Evan Dalding and Josie Uerling for graduating with their Bachelor's degrees in psychology
- Dr. Lawler for getting tenure and being promoted to Associate Professor
- SEED Lab members have been hard at work this summer enrolling participants in the EMU Family Participant Pool at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market and other community events!
- Welcome new lab members Jacklyn Staffeld, Olivia Lesh, Grace Jasina, Christopher Jackson, Allison Livesey, Bernadette Dzialowski, and Isabella Viviano!
- SEED Lab members Joely Reznik, Madison Hannapel, Centia Thomas, Evan Daldin, and Rachael Les presented their work at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in Chicago.
Winter 2022
- Congratulations SEED Lab Member Sarah Freeman for successfully defending her thesis, "Pathways from Parental Adverse Childhood Experiences to Child Emotion Regulation: The Role of Parent Emotion Regulation and Emotion Socialization"
- Welcome new lab members Dora James, Kat Spence, Divyangi Krishnamayi, Lane Brodzik, and Erin Neis!
Fall 2021
- The SEED Lab is looking to hire motivated undergraduate and graduate research assistants for a paid opportunity to help on an NIH-funded study of self-control in early childhood. Check out the "Join our Team" page for more details! The deadline to apply is Wednesday, 12/1.
- Congratulations to Dr. Lawler and Dr. Staples for being awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health to conduct a longitudinal study on the effects of early life stress on self-regulation development!
- Welcome new lab members Centia Thomas, Haley East, Rachael Les, Jordyn Gerwig, Cierra Barrett, Lauren Magreta, Gabrielle-Gloria Bryant, Noor Jassim, Hayley Nur, Jeffrey Lock, Myranda Ivey, and Coreena Forstner!
- Congratulations doctoral students Aidan Schmitt and Kristin Aho for successfully proposing their dissertations!
Summer 2021
- Dr. Lawler was awarded a grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to expand the EMU Early Childhood Clinics.
- Lab member Jerrica Pitzen successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled, "Understanding the Parental Mind: Examining the Stability of Parental Reflective Functioning Across the Birth of a Child and Associations with Mind-Mindedness." Way to go Dr. Pitzen!
- Congrats Lab members Aidan Schmitt and Amanda Hicks for passing their qualifying exams!
- Welcome new lab members Joely Reznik, Alyssa Graumann, and Madison Hannapel!
Fall 2020/Winter 2021
- Congratulations to doctoral student Amanda Hicks on being awarded The Children’s Foundation Behavioral Health Scholarship!
- Congrats to Krysten Schultz and Aidan Schmitt and their teams who presented research at the Association for Psychological Science annual conference.
- Welcome new lab members Aidan Schmitt, Sarah Freeman, Sarah Krell, Bree McGee, Elizabeth Burke, Evan Daldin, Kazia Kelley, Josie Uerling, Michael Said, Morgan Palmer, and Susan Tan!
Summer 2020
- Congratulations doctoral student Kristin Aho on being awarded The Children’s Foundation Behavioral Health Scholarship!
- Congratulations Armando Chacon on being awarded an EMU Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program Award for Fall 2020! Armando will be studying the relationships between parent executive functioning, parent-child attachment, and child self-regulation.
- Welcome new lab members May Haylee Whitlock and Marcel Bellamy
April 2020
- Congratulations Spring 2020 Graduates:
Undergraduates:
Rylee Smith, Reyna Lee, Abu Isse, Antonio Berry, Nicholas Nanney, Lyndsey Peterson, Kristen Dolohanty
General Clinical Masters graduates:
Natasha Bourgoin, Tiffany Ludkin, Leah Parry, Jenipher Servin Olivares
Winter 2020
- Congratulations to doctoral student Jerrica Pitzen on matching for internship! She will be completing her internship at The Children's Center in Salt Lake City Utah in the 2020-2021 academic year.
- Congrats SEED Lab members Krysten Schultz and Abu Isse on admission to the GC masters program for the 2020-2021 school year!
December 2019
Congratulations to SEED Lab members Kaitlin Dwyer, Sierra Powdhar, Megan McNulty and Lawrence Parsons who graduated on Sunday, December 16th!
- Welcome new lab member Camile Roebuck!
- Lab members presented small group projects that will be submitted to the Association for Psychological Science conference taking place in Chicago in May 2020.
- Congrats to Dr. Lawler and lab members Kristin Aho and Reyna Lee who all had their submissions accepted to the World Association for Infant Mental Health Conference which will take place in Brisbane, Australia in June 2020.
Camile Roebuck
Welcome new lab member!
Kaitlin Dwyer
Graduated on Sunday, December 16th!
Lawrence Parsons
Graduated on Sunday, December 16th!
Megan McNulty
Graduated on Sunday, December 16th!
Sierra Powdhar
Graduated on Sunday, December 16th!
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November 2019
- Congrats to Dr. Lawler on her Brickley award!
- Dr. Lawler's research from the University of Minnesota titled "Early adversity and children’s regulatory deficits: Does post-adoption parenting facilitate recovery in post-institutionalized children?" was published this month in Development and Psychopathology.
October 2019
- Hooray! We finally remembered to take a lab picture!
The Seed Lab Members
A group photo with everybody in it!
September 2019
- Welcome new SEED Lab members Rosa Colon Zayas, Kyle Mitchell, Krysten Schultz, Abigail Martin and Jordan Sieja.
Abigail Martin
Welcome new SEED lab member
Kyle Mitchell
Welcome new SEED lab member
Krysten Schultz
Welcome new SEED lab member
Rosa Colon Zayas
Welcome new SEED lab member
Jordan Sieja
Welcome new SEED lab member
August 2019
- Welcome new SEED Lab members Izzy Tolsma, Armando Chacon and Salena Napora.
Armando Chacon
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Izzy Tolsma
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Salena Napora
Welcome new SEED Lab member
July 2019
- Congratulations to SEED Lab member Jerrica Pitzen for successfully proposing her Dissertation Study titled "Understanding the Parental Mind: Examining the stability of parental reflective functioning around the birth of a child and associations with maternal mind-mindedness."
Dissertation Study
Congratulations to SEED Lab member Jerrica Pitzen for successfully proposing her Dissertation Study
May 2019
- Congratulations to SEED Lab member Kaitlin Dwyer for her Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program Award for Summer 2019! She will be investigating parental self-efficacy, mental health and parental sensitivity as part of the Development of Self-Regulation Study. Kaitlin presented her proposed project at the Summer Science Research Initiative event on May 22.
- SEED Lab members Jerrica Pitzen, Tiffany Ludkin, Kristin Aho, Morgan Daugherty, Natasha Bourgoin, Sierra Powdhar and Kaitlin Dwyer presented their research at the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Conference on May 6, 2019.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
Infant Mental Health Conference.
SEED Lab member Kaitlin Dwyer
Development of Self-Regulation Study
April 2019
- Welcome new SEED Lab members Leah Parry and Reyna Lee!
Leah Parry
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Reyna Lee
Welcome new SEED Lab member
March 2019
- Sierra Powdher, a SEED Lab Undergraduate Honors student, presented her research at the EMU Undergraduate Symposium on March 29, 2019.
- SEED Lab members Jerrica Pitzen, Jenipher Servin Oliveras and Sierra Powdhar traveled to Baltimore, MD to present their research at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference March 21-23, 2019.
Sierra Powdher
Sierra Powdher
Sierra Powdher
February 2019
- Congrats to SEED Lab volunteer Amanda Hicks who was admitted to the EMU Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2019 under the mentorship of Dr. Angela Staples!
- Dr. Lawler's research from the University of Minnesota examining the effects of mindfulness and executive function interventions on promoting self-regulation in internationally adopted children was published this month in Development and Psychopathology.
January 2018
Welcome new SEED Lab members Lawrence Parsons, Lissette Rosas and Rylee Smith!
Lawrence Parsons
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Lissette Rosas
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Rylee Smith
Welcome new SEED Lab member
October 2018
Dr. Lawler's research from University of Michigan examining postpartum depression and its effects on children's stress physiology was published this month in Infancy.
September 2018
- Congrats Jerrica Pitzen on successfully completing her Qualification Exam!
- Welcome new SEED Lab members Kristin Aho, Morgan Daugherty, Natasha Bourgoin, Megan McNulty, Karleigh Hassenzahl, Kristen Dolohanty, Meghan Waggoner, Markita Payton and Deb Usitalo!
Kristin Aho
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Morgan Daugherty
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Natasha Bourgoin
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Megan McNulty
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Karleigh Hassenzahl
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Kristen Dolohanty
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Meghan Waggoner
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Markita Payton
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Deb Usitalo
Welcome new SEED Lab member
Jerrica Pitzen
Successfully completed her Qualification Exam!
Summer 2018
SEED Lab members were busy this summer enrolling participants in the EMU Family Participants by hosting a booth at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market!
