Visiting Assistant Professor Jenessa Seymour, who was with us for two years, is off to a new job at Mt. Holyoke College. Before departing, Dr. Seymour and students shook up Olin Hall with a study of how humans learn to echolocate – picture blindfolded participants negotiating a human-sized maze.
Visiting Assistant Professor Haiyan Zhang, whose developmental course on play proved popular, has left for a position at SUNY Cortland in their Psychology Department. There, she will teach Educational Psychology, her first love. We are delighted that she will remain close to us in upstate NY.
Another person we will miss: Ben Fetzner, our 2017–18 psychology intern. Ben left Colgate in May for a lab position in NYC where he will study the effects of social media on well-being. We will catch up with Ben soon in a forthcoming blog!
Oh, no! Laur Rivera, our treasured lab manager and EEG tech, will move onwards and upwards to a lab manager position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab (PIRL). Laur will work with Drs. Trish Devine and Will Cox, whose expertise is in intergroup relations. Among other things, Laur will help design and test bias training intervention programs in schools. Congratulations, Laur on joining such a prestigious lab!
PBSC farewell party