News & Awards

Spring 2026

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Gabriella D'Alessio, Jane Manning, Jordan Serata, and Giselle Vlassis!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Princess Neely on her graduation and dissertation defense! We look forward to seeing the continued impact of her research and future accomplishments.
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox, Luis Gomez Gorgonio, and Maeve McGowan on presenting their work at EPA!
Gavin at EPA Luis at EPA Maeve at EPA

Fall 2025

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Charlotte Busch-Vogel, Madison Lebowitz, Quang Luong, Zoe Moskalenko, and Melanie Siegel!
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on receiving a grant from the Center for Open Science!
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox and Nessia Crispe on presenting a poster at RSA!
Gavin at RSA

Spring 2025

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Jacob Calderon, Jess Costenbader, Ryan Gross, Alli Kimmel, Amanda Meyerson, Quang Luong, Madison Lebowitz, Maeve McGowan, and Sarah Stevenson!
  • Congratulations to Jacob Calderon, Jess Costenbader, Ryan Gross, Sarah Jacobs, Alli Kimmel, Maeve McGowan, and Sarah Stevenson on their graduation!
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on being awarded the Lehigh University Campbell Writing Prize for the Social Sciences!
  • Maeve McGowan presented her honors thesis.
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on being named an honorable mention in the Lehigh University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Contest!
  • Congratulations to Luis Gomez Gorgonio on presenting his poster at EPA!
Luis at EPA 2025

Fall 2024

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Jess Costenbader, Ryan Gross, Alli Kimmel, Quang Luong, Madison Lebowitz, Maeve McGowan, and Sarah Stevenson!
  • Welcome to our new graduate student, Luis Gomez Gorgonio!
  • Congratulations to Maeve McGowan on being awarded a CAS Undergraduate Research Grant for her honors thesis!

Spring 2024

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Skye Bates, Ryan Gross, Sarah Jacobs, Gianna LaMena, Madison Lebowitz, Maeve McGowan, Sarah Stevenson, and Serena Wang!
  • Congratulations to Skye Bates, Gianna LaMena, and Serena Wang on their graduation!
  • Gianna LaMena presented her honors thesis.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Laura Wolter on her dissertation defense! We look forward to seeing the continued impact of her research and future accomplishments.
Dr. Laura Wolter celebrating her dissertation defense

Fall 2023

  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on having a poster accepted for the 2024 SPSP Annual Convention!
  • Congratulations to Gianna LaMena for receiving the Strohl Research Grant!
  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Skye Bates, Nessia Crispe, Ryan Gross, Sarah Jacobs, Gianna LaMena, Madison Lebowitz, Maeve McGowan, Serena Wang, and Cammie Wylie!
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on approval of their Master thesis proposal.

Summer 2023

  • Well done to Gabby Maramag, Laura Wolter, and Gavin Fox on presenting their work at RSA 46th Annual Meeting.
  • Welcome new lab members: Ryan Gross and Serena Wang!

Spring 2023

  • Congratulations to Elisa Lipkin for graduating from Lehigh University with her Bachelor's in Pre-Dental Science!
  • Congratulations to Gabby Maramag for graduating from Kutztown University!
  • Congratulations to Nicole Jacobs for graduating from Lehigh University with her Bachelor's degree in Psychology!
  • Nessia Crispe presented her honors project.
  • Elisa Lipkin was accepted into Penn Dental Medicine's DMD Program at the University of Pennsylvania!
  • Congratulations to Laura Wolter on the publication of her paper on bystander norms in Psychology of Violence!
  • Maeve McGowan was awarded the Gold-Hansen Trophy by the music department.
  • Gianna LaMena was awarded a paid research assistantship at Mountaintop Campus in Dr. Sarah Borowski's lab.
  • Congratulations to Nessia Crispe for being awarded the Strohl Research Grant!
  • Gabby Maramag accepted a job as post-bacc lab manager at the University of Michigan.
  • Nicole Jacobs presented her honors project.
  • Clarissa Chun presented her research on space and belonging at the Lehigh Student Affairs Assessment Symposium.
  • Laura Wolter, Gabby Maramag, and Nicole Jacobs presented at SPSP Annual Convention in Atlanta, GA.
  • Welcome new lab members: Maeve McGowan and Sarah Jacobs!

Fall 2022

  • Welcome Gavin Fox to the lab as a first-year PhD student!
  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Skye Bates, Thomas Stoughton, Cammie Wylie, Elisa Lipkin, and Gianna LaMena!

Summer 2022

  • Welcome new lab member: Gabby Maramag!
  • Laura Wolter presented her work at the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) Annual Convention in Orlando, FL.