Skylar joined the lab in May 2021 as a post-baccalaureate research assistant, and now she is a fourth-year graduate student in the Applied Social and Health Psychology doctoral program. Skylar earned her B.A. degree from Carleton College in psychology in 2021. After graduation, she has been working with Dr. Dan Graham here at Colorado State University on promoting daily physical activities among college students. Her current research focuses on sedentary time reduction using activity-permissive workstations (APWs), and the impact of APWs on mood, stress, and cognitive performance. 

Email: skylar.yu@colostate.edu

Twitter/X: @skylar_yiqing

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yiqing-skylar-yu/home 

Katie joined the lab in August 2022 and is currently a fourth-year graduate student in the Applied Social and Health Psychology doctoral program. During her undergraduate experience at the University of Pittsburgh, Katie was involved in four different research labs with varying foci, including social justice, eating disorders, and healthy aging and inflammation. Her research interests narrowed to health behaviors and outcomes after completing her honors thesis on the relationship between diet, adiposity, and inflammation, and were further strengthened through her work with underserved populations facing health issues at a crisis accommodation center in Sydney, Australia.

After graduating, Katie worked as a neuroimaging research assistant on an exercise intervention study in Pittsburgh, contributing to her passion for health behavior intervention research. Her current research interests focus on the intersection of intuitive eating and the workplace. More specifically, her master’s thesis examined why intuitive eating programs are not more common in workplace wellness initiatives. Katie expanded this work by implementing an intuitive eating program within an organization and will evaluate the program at multiple time points for her dissertation.

When she is not in research mode, Katie enjoys creating new recipes, painting outdoors, journaling, and biking on trails with friends.

Email: katie.mcmahon@colostate.edu