July-September 2023

• Pooja, our member who is the founder of - Psych #rstats Club (also one of our collaborators) was honored with a SIPS Mission Award! 

• Nikita was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Fetal, Infant, Toddler Neuroimaging Group. 

• Medha got accepted into a Masters Program at Christ (Deemed to be University). 

• Project USPAS Members co-hosted two session for Simply Neuroscience's Neurothan Series :- 

a) Nikita co-hosted a session on From Student to Scholar: Navigating Conference Culture and Professional Communication Etiquettes. [Video] [Slides] 

b) Pooja & Sneha co-hosted a session on finding Mentorship, Collaborators & Teammates in Academia. [Slides] 

• Pooja got elected as the International graduate member-at-large for the Society for Affective Science's student committee and is a student representative for the DEI committee.

• Nikita recently joined the Diversity Committee at ManyBabies. 

• Project USPAS & PsychinOut are collaborating together on Psych PhD App's: International Edition Panel and Q&A. More information here.

April-June 2023

• Anushka began a new role as a Consultant at the Centre for Social and Behavioral Change

• Nainika & Sneha co-hosted a roundtable session on navigating research opportunities in academia as an International student. [Video & Slides coming soon] 

• Nikita started a position as a Research Assistant at New York University where she will be working remotely. 

• Nikita was also accepted for Sangath India's P4E Fellowship where she will be working on her own independent project for the disabled population. 

• Project USPAS & LIdEC-PPC have officially become collaborators. 

• Project USPAS & Psych #rstats Club are excited to finally become collaborators.

• Sneha got accepted as a Research Assistant at University of Pen State University and will be working remotely.

January-March 2023

• Sneha secured a $300 grant/ travel award for the Metascience Conference 2023 to be held at Washington DC in May 2023 (subject to visa)

• Project USPAS & ABRIR have officially become collaborators.

• Nainika secured the Wright State Student First Grant ($5000) for a Mental Health and Suicide Prevention campus-wide peer mentoring project

• Project USPAS is organzing a roundtable session at SIPS 2023 - Stay tuned!

• Project USPAS's poster got accepted at SIPS 2023 - Stay tuned!

• Nikita joined the DEI committee at the Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP)

• Pooja's lightning talk for co-auhored study accepted for Diversifying scholarship conference 2023, University of Virginia

• Pooja's poster for co-authored study accepted for SIPS 2023

• Nainika’s poster on the Effectiveness of EMDR therapy for PTSD in the incarcerated population in Ohio has been accepted in American Psychological Association (APA) 2023 Conference under Division 56 - Trauma Psychology

• Nikita won her first collaborative grant $1200 with her peer, Munna R. Shainy from Cognitive Science Society for organizing a local meet-up in Bengaluru

• Anushka got accepted to the University of Chicago for a Master's in Social Sciences (Psychology Concentration)