Lab Alumni and Awards
Lab Alumni and Awards
Several students have been recognized for their work, either related to the lab or their own research.
Cole Walsh, ’19, won the Koster Award for Best Abstract and Best Presentation at the Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat in 2017.
Julia Blumenstyk, ’14, won the Koster Award for Best Abstract at the Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat in 2012.
Dana Breakstone, ’10, won the Best Poster Award at the Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat in 2009.
Nina Gold, ’09, won the Erlbaum Prize for the Best Paper in Cognitive Science for work on 3- to 5-year-old children’s understanding of age. This is a national competition hosted by Psi Chi, the honorary society for Psychology. This project was completed in PS 347-348 (Seminar and Collaborative Research in Cognitive Development). Nina completed her medical degree at Harvard University.
Students have graduated and gone off into a variety of directions after Colby. Some have continued to do research (either as a Research Assistant – RA – or in graduate school), others have become teachers, and others have pursued careers in the health professions.
| Research and/or Graduate School | Teaching | Health Professions | Other Careers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natasha Atkinson, ’11 RA at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Sarah Carrigan, ’16 Yarmouth. ME, High School | Brittany Hughes, ’12 Nurse Practitioner, Yale U | Cole Walsh, ’19 Forrester Research |
| Catherine Stewart, ’11 PhD Clinical Psychology, U of CT | Connie Jangro, ’13 Match Teacher Residency | Natasha Atkinson, ’11 Nurse Practitioner, Columbia U | Meng Zhao, ’16 Netpop, market research |
| Dana Breakstone, ’10 RA NICHD and University of MD College Park | Hali Castleman, ’11 Teach for America | Kaitlyn Billington, ’11 Nurse Practitioner, Columbia U | Julia Blumenstyk,’14 Ad Council of New York |
| Aneth Laban, ’10 PhD Biomedical Sciences, UMass Medical School | Sarah Kunkel, ’08 MA Elementary Education, Leslie U | Johanna Salay, ’11 MD, Tufts University | Shaquan Huntt, ’13 Americorp/VISTA JD, Fordham University |
| Cheryl Haan, ’08 PhD Social Psychology, U of VA | Pollee Hruby, ’09 Nurse Practitioner, Yale University | Casey Lynch, ’09 Graphic Arts | |
| Stacey Dubois, ’08 PhD Experimental Psychology, Tufts University | Carla Jacobs, ’09 DO, NY College of Osteopathic Medicine | ||
| Linsey Walker, ’08 RA Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Stephanie Lubin-Levy, ’08 Nurse Practitioner, Mass General |