News & Awards

Fall 2025

  • Welcome new and returning lab members: Charlotte Busch-Vogal, Madison Lebowitz, Quang Luong, Zoe Moskalenko, and Melanie Siegel!
  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on receiving a grant from the Center for Open Science to promote replication of health behavior research!

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!

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 graduation and the successful defense of her dissertation! We are so proud of you! Best of luck in all that you do.
Dr. Laura Wolter celebrating her dissertation defense

Fall 2023

  • Congratulations to Gavin Fox on having a poster presentation accepted for the 2024 SPSP Annual Convention!
  • Congratulations to Gianna LaMena for being awarded the Strohl Research Grant to support her honors thesis research! Her project focuses on barriers that parents face in communicating with their emerging adult children about sexual consent.
  • 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 on parent harm-reduction communication at the 46th annual scientific meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA).
  • Welcome new lab members: Ryan Gross and Serena Wang!

Spring 2023

  • Congratulations to Elisa Lipkin for graduating from Lehigh University with her Bachelor's degree in Pre-Dental Science!
  • Congratulations to Gabby Maramag for graduating from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with her Bachelor's degree in Psychology!
  • 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.