ESDL News
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2025
Yufan Liang received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to conduct her DMP in our lab!
Huge congratulations to Yufan!
2024
Former ESDL PhD student accepted a faculty position at Michigan State University Open Former ESDL PhD student accepted a faculty position at Michigan State University configuration options
We are excited to announce that Meltem Yucel, a former ESDL PhD student and current post-doc at Duke, has just accepted a faculty position at Michigan State University! Congratulations, Dr. Yucel!
Featured on UVA Today: By First Grade, Children Begin To Perceive Collective Punishment as Unfair
November 25, 2024 Recent research from our lab, led by undergraduate Sarah Thomas, was featured on UVA Today!
2023
Recent ESDL graduate Dr. Meltem Yucel (now at Duke University) has received the SPSP/SAGE Emerging Scholar Award!
October 19, 2023
2022
Professor Vaish received a 2021 Max Planck Institute Sabbatical Award. The award supports scientists by offering a research stay at one of the Max Planck Institutes as well as flexible research funding over a 2-year period.
September 06, 2022
Dr. Stern's study on emotionally perceptive mothers being more sensitive parents was covered in UVA today!
July 25, 2022
Former Graduate Student Dr. Meltem Yucel (now a postdoc at Duke) received the Society for Affective Science’s 2022 Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award!
April 12, 2022
Graduate student Johanna Chajes and undergraduate Hailey Costello were awarded a Double Hoo award for their project "The effect of time pressure on children's fairness behavior and executive function".
March 14, 2022
2021
Graduate Student Johanna Chajes was chosen as one of the eight winners of this year's APS Student Grant Competition and will get $500 for her research on intuitive cooperation and executive function.
March 22, 2021
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was elected as a Student and Early Career Council Representative to the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
March 15, 2021
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received a graduate teaching award.
March 01, 2021
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was selected to become the Cognitive Development Society's Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, an affiliate to Cornell University's Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and an affiliate to the Department of Human Development.
February 01, 2021
2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was selected as a student affiliate to UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, directed by Kurt Gray.
November 16, 2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel won a $12,000 grant from Cornell University's Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) to conduct research on children's gossip.
November 03, 2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel won the University's Three Minute Thesis Contest!
September 21, 2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel won APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award and APA Virtual Convention Grant.
August 31, 2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel won the Raven Scholarship.
April 13, 2020
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was awarded a dissertation grant from the UVA Democracy Initiative's Corruption Laboratory on Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law.
March 30, 2020
Post-doctoral Research Fellow Jessica Stern received a Postdoctoral Ruth l. Kirschstein National Research Service Award! Her project is co-sponsored by Tobias Grossman, Amrisha Vaish, and Joe Allen.
March 16, 2020
2019
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was awarded the Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation Graduate Research Grant.
December 03, 2019
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received a Graduate Research Travel Award from the University of Virginia.
September 24, 2019
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received a Graduate Research Travel Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
September 11, 2019
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received the 2019 – 2020 Teaching Relief Fellowship from the University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
September 11, 2019
Undergraduate student Jenna Marzougui received the 2019 Minerva Scholars Award from the University of Virginia College Council.
September 11, 2019
Undergraduate student Simran Mehta received the Small Research and Travel Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences. Open Undergraduate student Simran Mehta received the Small Research and Travel Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences. configuration options
September 11, 2019
Undergraduate student Carolynn McElroy received the Small Research and Travel Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences.
September 11, 2019
Graduate student Stefen Beeler and undergraduate student Kayla Pelletz received the Double Hoo Research Grant from the Center for Undergraduate Excellence.
September 11, 2019
Graduate student Caroline Kelsey was selected as a Jefferson Fellow (2018-2020) by the University of Virginia.
July 17, 2019
Professor Vaish received the All-University Teaching Award!
April 25, 2019
2018
Graduate student Caroline Kelsey received the Dannon Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant! Open Graduate student Caroline Kelsey received the Dannon Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant! configuration options
July 17, 2018
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was chosen as one of the three Student Choice Colloquium Speakers for the prospective student visit week in 2019.
July 11, 2018
2017
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received a Graduate Travel Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
September 26, 2017
Graduate student Caroline Kelsey received the Presidential Fellowship in Data Science for her project: Mothers, Infants, Microbiome and Mental Health (MIMMs): A social neuroscience perspective of maternal-child health to unlock the potential of biobanked
September 20, 2017
Graduate student Caroline Kelsey and undergraduate student Kate Haynes, as well as graduate student Meltem Yucel and undergraduate student Madeleine F. Mitchell, received the Double Hoo Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Research Grants from the University
September 17, 2017
Graduate student Meltem Yucel received the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE Academy) Fellowship.
September 04, 2017
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was selected as a Frances Degen Horowitz Millennium Scholar from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)!
August 16, 2017
2016
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Janine Oostenbroek received the Postdoctoral Travel Award for Best Oral Presentation in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium, University of Virginia!
August 10, 2016
Graduate Student Caroline Kelsey received the Doris Buffett Fellowship for a summer community outreach project.
June 21, 2016
2015
Professor Vaish was designated a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science.
September 16, 2015
2013
Our research was featured in an article on ‘Experiments to do with your baby’ in the Atlantic!
September 16, 2013