Scroll down to see some fun photos of lab members over the years!
Lab PI and PhD students 2025
HBES 2025 in Atlantic City.
Kat Sheetz presenting at HBES 2025
Speakers after the symposium on oral contraceptives, HBES 2025
EMBARK student Silvana Iskandar at the Graduate Student Research Conference, April 2025.
Evolution of the Grad Student 2025.
Kat Sheetz, Lisa Welling, Jenna Lunge, and Rich Holler. April, 2025
Anna Powell and Lisa Welling presenting at APSARD 2025 in San Diego.
HBES 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark!
Dr. Justin Mogilski presenting at HBES 2024.
Lisa Welling, Lars Penke, and David Puts at the HBES 2024 Poster session.
Victor Shiramizu, Lisa Welling, and Ben Jones at HBES 2024.
ISHE Banquet, July 2023.
President Ora Pescovitz, Professor Lisa Welling, and Provost Britt Rios-Ellis at the OU Promotion Banquet where Prof. Welling's promotion to Full Professor was celebrated.
Congratulations to Kat Sheetz on successfully defending her thesis! April, 2024.
Former lab member Justin Mogilski and PhD students Jenna Lunge and Kat Sheetz at NEEPS in Niagara Falls. April, 2024.
Rich Holler presenting at ISHE 2023. He won best student poster!
Congratulations to honors student Yvonne Kieleszewski!
Hanging with actor Curtis Armstrong at graduation.
Jenna Lunge won best student talk for her presentation at ISHE 2023!
When you're presenting remotely and your power goes out! HBES 2022
The October 2022 e-LIS meeting was a costume party!
MS Student Kat Sheetz at the 2023 Grad Student Research Conference
Out for dinner after the ISHE 2023 poster session in Detroit.
The Human Behavior & Evolution Society's meeting in Palm Springs, CA.
Lisa Welling & Kat Sheetz, 2023 Grad Student Research Conference
Sadie Hughes' MS Graduation!
Congrats to MS grad, Alex Orille! (2021)
Faculty on Strike, 2021
Lab PI & Grad students, 2020: Lisa Welling, Ginny Mitchell, Rich Holler, Sadie Hughes, Alex Orille, & Jenna Lunge
Lab Meetings during COVID-19, 2020
Alex Orille at the 2020 OU Grad Student Conference
Jenna Lunge at the 2020 OU Grad Student Conference
Dr. Lisa Welling, Jennifer Vonk, & Kana Taku judge presentations, OU Grad Student Conference.
Dr. Lisa Welling presenting at ISHE in Zadar, Croatia. August, 2019.
The lab hosted Dr. Pat Barclay as part of the Psychology Department Distinguished Speaker Series. October, 2019.
November 2019 Psychology Department Scavenger Hunt: Part of the faculty team "Not-That-Kind-Of-Doctor."
Spring 2020 issue of Time Magazine, "TIME: The Science of Gender." It featured an interview with Dr. Lisa Welling and others.
Kayla's MS graduation!
Average Lab Member 2019
A visit from Justin
HBES 2019, Boston
Kayla Shephard after her Lunch Bunch talk, 2019
Lab PI & Grad students, 2019: Ginny Mitchell, Kayla Shephard, Rich Holler, Lisa Welling, & Jenna Lunge
Evolution of the PI, 2019
The Lord of the Lab!
Average Lab Member 2018
Justin & Nadia's farewell dinner
Lisa Welling & Todd Shackelford promoting The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Endocrinology.
Face Lab Reunion in Amsterdam, 2018
HBES Amsterdam, 2018
HBES Amsterdam, 2018
HBES Amsterdam, 2018
Evolutionary Perspectives on Death Conference, 2018
Jenna Lunge's MS graduation, 2018
Lab outing, 2018
Lisa Welling & Anna Wysocki meeting up at APS 2018 in San Francisco
Jenna earns her MS thesis!
The wasting away of the Postdoc...
Lab PI, grad students, and postdoc 2017-2018 Back (l-r): Simon Reeve, Ginny Mitchell, Justin Mogilski. Front (l-r): Kayla Shephard, Lisa Welling, Jenna Lunge.
Dr. Welling receiving the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
Face Lab reunion, Idaho, 2017
Lab outing, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Welling on receiving promotion and tenure, and Drs. Zeigler-Hill & Vonk on promotion to Full Professor!
Simon giving his Lunch Bunch talk, 2017
Dr. Welling was recognized for outstanding graduate mentorship, 2017
Justin Mogilski's Graduation
Justin getting hooded. Congratulations, Dr. Mogilski!
Sarah Donaldson, a very pregnant Lisa Welling, & Jenna Lunge.
HBES 2017 in Boise, Idaho
Obi-Welling has taught us well...
March for Science, Detroit, 2017
March for Science, Ann Arbor, 2017
March for Science, Washington DC, 2017
Coffee is a necessity.
Evolution of the PI, 2017
Introducing Dr. Mogilski!
Getting your PhD is exhausting!
PI, Grad Students, & RAs, 2017
Justin & Lisa at the doctoral breakfast, 2017
Justin Mogilski, Simon Reeve, Ginny Mitchell, Anna Wysocki, Lisa Welling, & Jenna Lunge, 2017
Lisa Welling giving an invited talk at McMaster University
Grad Student Research Conference, 2017
Average Lab Member 2017
Justin Mogilski's Dissertation Defense 2017
HBES Vancouver, 2016
Sarah Donaldson, HBES Vancouver 2016
Dr. Welling hosting the Detroit Tigers Class Outside event with John Brenkus (Host of ESPN's "Sport Science")
Martha Escobar, Lisa Welling, & Melissa McDonald at Professor Appreciation Night, 2017
Awkward Family Photo: Lab Edition
Justin Mogilski, Anna Wysocki, Lisa Welling, Simon Reeve, & Sarah Donaldson
Evolution of the PI, 2016
Sarah Donaldson's MS graduation, 2016
Welling Lab 2016: Simon, Sarah, Justin M., Anna, Sierra, Samantha N., Gio, Matt, Karli, Lisa, Noor, Keaton. Missing: Kayla, Justin B., Samantha H., Yomna, Sayma, Patricia, Rebecca, Rachel.
Average Lab Member 2016
Awkward Family Photo: Lab Edition
Lisa Welling speaking at TEDxOakland, 2015
Lisa Welling & Jennifer Vonk at TEDxOakland
Sarah Donaldson presenting at the Evolution of Psychopathology conference
Grad studens & PI, 2015
HBES 2015 (Columbia, Missouri)
Editorial Board for Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology in Erice, Italy
Simon & Rachel (& Genevieve the rabbit) at Cranbrook Institute of Science "Fright After Dark"
Department BBQ 2014
Founders Day, 2015
Lisa Welling receiving the New Investigator Research Excellence Award, 2015
Climbing trees.
Average Lab Member 2015
Lab 2015, L-R: Samantha, Deanna, Rebecca, Jen, Bethany, Justin B., Sarah, Justin M., Lisa, Simon, Sylis, Jason, Karli, Patricia, Amanda, Kayla, Rachel. Missing: Jonathan, Chelsea.
When lab experiments go wrong...
Testing Liontail Macaques, 2014
Justin presenting at the Evolution of Morality Conference
Justin, NEEPS 2014
Sylis, NEEPS 2014
Sylis Nicolas, Mark McCoy, Justin Mogilski, & Lisa Welling, 2014
The 2014 lab (L-R): Sylis Nicolas, Lisa Welling, Mark McCoy, Justin Bruyneel, Justin Mogilski, Jennifer Vrabel, Kayla Baszczuk, Deanna Katto, & Chelsea Fulks. Missing: Jonathan Saulter& Samantha Nagy
Average Lab Member, 2014
Honors student Jonathan Saulter, 2014
New faculty orientation, 2012
Dinner with Richard Dawkins, 2012
Meeting Dr. Jane Goodall
David Buss, Lisa Welling, Justin Mogilski, & Austen Jeffrey: Evolution of Sexuality Conference 2013