Julia, a graduate student in the ACED lab, was awarded the Psi Chi Summer Graduate Research Grant for her original, empirical project. Her project aims to examine the role of emotion motives to understand emotion regulation difficulties in depression. Way to go!

Vanessa, a graduating senior in the ACED lab, was awarded the Shimoff Distinguished Achievement Award in Psychology at UMBC. This is a prestigious award given to student(s) exemplifying outstanding scholarship, research, and service. We are so proud of you, Vanessa!

Three ACED Lab members presented at this year's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). Ana presented a poster based on her honors thesis entitled "The impact of other people's presence on semantic networks in social anxiety." Vanessa also presented a poster on her honors thesis entitled "Examining negative semantic memory and its relation to depression and rumination." Last but not least, Olivial has been working at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in addition to the ACED Lab, and presented her work there entitled "Childhood adversity, parenting stress, and protective factors in caregivers."

Great work, everyone!

Three ACED Lab members presented at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) meeting. Aidan, a third-year graduate student, presented a poster entitled "Examining semantic network dynamics to understand post-event processing in social anxiety." Julia, another third-year graduate student, presented a poster entitled "Cognitive Inhibition Moderates the Association between Stress and Health." Both posters also included several current and former ACED Lab undergraduate students. Amina, an undergraduate student, presented her poster entitled "The Relation Between Depersonalization and Graduation Intentions."  Great job, everyone!

Olivia, an undergrad in the ACED lab, presented at the UMBC Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF). Her poster was titled "Examining Gender Differences in Interpretation Bias." Great work, Olivia!

Amina, an undergrad in the ACED lab, presented at the annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). Her poster was titled "The Relation Between Depersonalization and Academic Self-Efficacy." Great work, Amina!

Robinho, an undergrad in the ACED lab, was awarded a Small Research Grant from the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) at UMBC to support his McNair's project. Well done, Robiniho!

Julia, a first-year grad student in the ACED Lab has been awarded a Small Research Grant from the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) at UMBC to conduct her master's project. Well done, Julia!

Amina, an undergrad in the ACED lab won the Undergraduate Research Award and received funding for her upcoming honors thesis. Well done, Amina!

Ethan, a second-year grad student in the ACED Lab has been awarded a Small Research Grant from the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) at UMBC to conduct his master's project. Well done, Ethan!

Aidan, a first-year grad student in the ACED Lab has been awarded a Small Research Grant from the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) at UMBC. Well done, Aidan!

Members of the ACED lab were well represented at the recent Society for Research in Psychopathology meeting in Philadelphia. Aidan presented his poster entitled "Interpersonal trauma history as a moderator of PTSD symptoms and polysubstance use in a treatment-seeking veteran population," based on his work prior to joining the ACED lab. Julia also presented a poster based on her work prior to joining the ACED lab ("The Mediating Role of Social Support on Childhood Trauma and Cognition in Adults with Bipolar Disorder"). Lastly, Ethan presented his poster entitled "Association between growth mindset and cortisol responses to acute stress."

Lira received a UMBC Strategic Award for Research Transitions (START) award. Her project will examine the role of emotion regulation in the association between the experience of racial discrimination and emotional well-being in people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.

The Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Program will fund a project on job-related stress among nursing assistants in long-term care facilities. This project is in collaboration with Karen Chen in Information Systems at UMBC and Kelly Doran in School of Nursing at UMB.