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Brandon Rickett

Brandon Rickett

January 8, 2025
Olivia Robertson

Olivia Robertson

January 8, 2025
Lyric MacDonald

Lyric MacDonald

January 8, 2025
Diana Lopez

Diana Lopez

January 8, 2025
Ella McCoy

Ella McCoy

January 8, 2025
Kavya Iyer

Kavya Iyer

January 8, 2025
Alison Harvey

Alison Harvey

January 8, 2025
Makenna Luzenski

Makenna Luzenski

January 8, 2025
Zülal İşcanoğlu

Zülal İşcanoğlu

January 8, 2025
Olivia Bell

Olivia Bell

January 8, 2025
Dr. Rina Eiden

Dr. Rina Eiden

September 30, 2022
Yejin Park

Yejin Park

September 30, 2022
Rachel Marcus

Rachel Marcus

July 30, 2022
Macy Watkins

Macy Watkins

April 30, 2022
Danielle Seay

Danielle Seay

December 30, 2021
Miglena Ivanova

Miglena Ivanova

November 30, 2021
Madison Kelm

Madison Kelm

September 30, 2021
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MARCH 2025

This month, Project Coordinator Makenna Luzenski accepted her offer of admission to join the Developmental Psychology doctoral program at Penn State. Makenna will be continuing her time with Dr. Eiden in the DRR Lab as a graduate student matriculating Fall 2025. Alongside her acceptance, Makenna was also awarded a University Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Makenna!

Graduate student Rachel Marcus finished writing her comprehensive exams! She wrote the breadth portion of the exam on three topics: how dynamic systems theory evolved, the strengths and weaknesses of social ecological theory, and a comparison on the methodological designs in adolescent substance use research. She really enjoyed her depth portion and getting to learn more about the dynamics of parent-adolescent interactions and how these dynamics impact adolescent outcomes. She’s looking forward to her comprehensive exam defense and getting to discuss all she’s learned with her committee!

Undergraduate Research Assistant Macy Watkins recently completed her Honors Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Eiden and graduate student Rachel Marcus. Macy’s thesis examined maternal emotion dysregulation as a mediator and preschool enrollment as a protective factor for child emotion regulation at early school age among low-income families with prenatal tobacco-cannabis exposure. Macy is looking forward to presenting her thesis at a symposium at the Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Conference this April.

FEBRUARY 2025

Graduate student Madison Kelm has recently accepted a NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Alcohol Research Training Grant at UCSD/SDSU to work with Dr. Sarah Mattson Weller examining effects of prenatal alcohol exposure across development. Congrats Maddie!! 

AUGUST 2024

Graduate student Madison Kelm won first place at the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Conference for a poster titled “Maternal Childhood Maltreatment, prenatal Substance Exposure, and Postnatal Adversity: Implications for Child Autonomic Functioning at Early School-Age.” This project was led by Madison alongside graduate student Olivia Bell and Drs. Pamela Schuetze and Rina Eiden.

Dr. Kristin Perry presents at SRCD

Jul 11, 2023 |

This spring, Dr. Kristin Perry presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, the Society for Research on Adolescence Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA and the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting in...

Rachel Level defends her dissertation!

Jul 11, 2023 |

Rachel Level successfully defended her dissertation titled “Maternal Anger in the Perinatal Period” on May 23, 2023. Rachel will be completing her clinical internship this coming year at Alleghany Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA. Congratulations, Rachel!