Lab Accomplishments

08/19/24 Maya Montell and Isabella Horton joined the lab as full-time project coordinators
08/15/24 Dr. Gibb was awarded an R01 from NIMH, "Development of attentional biases for affective cues in infants of mothers with depression"
08/12/24 Bre Lind joined the lab as a first year student in the Clinical Ph.D. program
06/18/24 Undergraduate Matthew Larocchia accepted a post-baccalaureate project coordinator position in Dr. Feurer's lab in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine
05/31/24 Undergraduate Jennifer Cunneen accepted a post-baccalaureate project coordinator position in Dr. Shackman's Affective and Translational Neuroscience laboratory at the University of Maryland 
04/26/24 Undergraduate Catharine Carfagno successfully defended her honors thesis, "Investigating the relation between levels of alcohol use and alcohol-related attentional biases in undergraduate students"
04/18/24 Undergraduate Caroline Cahill accepted a post-baccalaureate project coordinator position in Dr. Telzer's Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
03/24/24 Undergraduate Catharine Carfagno accepted an offer of admissions from the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Program (Neuroscience track) at Virginia Commonwealth University
03/01/24 Graduate student Elana Israel received a National Research Service Award (NRSA/F31) from the National Institute of Mental Health
01/05/24 Lab manager Nia Cole received a BIPOC Membership Scholarship from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America
12/14/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research ($500)
11/15/23 Undergraduate Catharine Carfagno received an Undergraduate Research Award to help fund her Honors project ($806)
11/08/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received a perfect score (10; 1st percentile) on her NRSA (F32) submission, "Neural indices of social and monetary reward processing as predictors of real-world pleasure and affect in adolescents at risk for depression"
08/17/23 Kelly Gair joined the lab as a first year student in the Clinical Ph.D. program
08/07/23 Lab manager Celeste Beauvilaire received a travel award to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in New Orleans, LA ($599)
07/05/23 Amber Gan and Sara Buseman joined the lab as full-time project coordinators
06/02/23

Graduate student Elana Israel received a Clinical Science Student Training Award from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science
05/15/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received a Commendation for Excellence by the Binghamton University Clinical Psychology faculty
05/05/23 Graduate student Elana Israel was selected to participate in the 2023 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day all-expense paid intensive training in electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) research design, implementation, and analysis
04/12/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received a Harpur College Graduate Investment Initiative award ($1,000)
03/30/23 Undergraduate research assistant Jennifer Cuneen was selected to participate in the Binghamton University Summer Scholars and Artists Program to fund her research in the lab ($3,500)
03/28/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received an American Psychological Foundation Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz fellowship ($25,000) 
01/05/23 Graduate student Elana Israel received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award ($1,000)
08/15/22 Nia Cole and Celeste Beauvilaire joined the lab as full-time project coordinators
08/01/22 Pooja Shankar joined the lab as a first year student in the Clinical Ph.D. program
07/29/22 Graduate student Elana Israel had her 1st first author paper accepted for publication, "A transactional mediation model of risk for the intergenerational transmission of depression: The role of maternal criticism"
06/22/22 Dr. Gibb was awarded an R01 from NIMH, "Attentional biases for affective cues as a mechanism of risk in children of depressed mothers"
04/27/22 Graduate student Elana Israel successfully presented her second year project, "Longitudinal associations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms among offspring of mothers with a history of major depressive disorder"
02/18/22 Graduate student Claire Foster matched at an outstanding internship, the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (Child/Family & Early Childhood track)
09/07/21 Former graduate student Kiera James started her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh funded by her NRSA (F32) grant from NIMH
06/09/21 Graduate student Claire Foster successfully proposed her dissertation, "Mother-infant synchrony: Exploring the moderating effects of maternal history of depression and parenting styles"
03/03/21 Lab Manager Holly Kobezak accepted an offer of admissions from the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Northern Illinois University
01/04/21 Graduate student Claire Foster received a Graduate School Travel Award from Binghamton University ($175)
08/26/20 Elana Israel joined the lab as a first year student in the Clinical Ph.D. program 
05/22/20 Graduate student Kiera James successfully defended her dissertation, "Physiological, affective, and neural responses to interpersonal stimuli in adolescents who engage in non-suicidal self-injury"
02/21/20 Graduate student Kiera James matched at an outstanding internship, University of Washington-Psychiatry (General Child Psychology track)
11/25/19 Graduate student Kiera James received a Graduate School Travel Award from Binghamton University ($1000)
11/19/19 Graduate student Cope Feurer was selected to participate in the Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) at the 2020 Anxiety and Depression Association of America conference
11/18/19 Dr. Brandon Gibb attended a 2-day meeting at NIMH to discuss the role of development and environment within RDoC
08/22/19 Graduate student Kiera James received a Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Dissertation Funding Award ($2,000)
08/01/19 Holly Kobezak joined the lab as a full-time project coordinator/lab manager
07/18/19 Current and former graduate students Anastacia Kudinova, Cope Feurer, and Kiera James were selected to attend the Professional Development Preconference at the 2019 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill youth depression, bipolar, and suicide conference
06/11/19 Graduate student Kiera James was awarded the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP) Routh Research and Dissertation Award ($2,500)
04/10/19 Graduate student Kiera James received a Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Award
04/10/19 Graduate student Kiera James received a one-semester Dissertation Fellowship from Binghamton University
04/08/19 Graduate student Claire Foster received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship
04/07/19 Graduate student Kiera James was selected to participate in the 2019 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day all-expense paid intensive training in electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) research design, implementation, and analysis
02/22/19 Our two graduate students who applied to internship this year matched to outstanding sites. Aliona Tsypes will be going to Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and Cope Feurer will be going to the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry (child track)
12/11/18 Undergraduate Margarita Ashkinazi accepted a postbaccalaureate research position at the University of Michigan in Michigan's Alzheimer's Disease Center
12/03/18 Graduate student Kiera James received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
11/26/18 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a Travel Award from the Binghamton Foundation ($500)
11/29/18 Graduate student Cope Feurer received an Outstanding SSCP Student Researcher Award
11/07/18 Graduate student Kiera James received a APF/COGDOP Raymond K. Mulhern Scholarship ($2,000)
06/20/18 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova successfully defended her dissertation, “Association between the magnitude of the immune response and recurrent major depressive disorder in humans and depression-like behaviors in animals"
03/08/18 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Award
02/21/18 Graduate student Cope Feurer received the APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award
02/01/18 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova accepted a postdoc position at Brown University School of Medicine
01/31/18 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a Travel Award to attend the Military Suicide Research Consortium (MSRC) Pre-Conference Training Day preceding the American Association of Suicidology conference
12/20/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
12/20/17 Graduate student Cope Feurer received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
11/01/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received an APA Dissertation Research Award ($1,000)
09/19/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a APF/COGDOP Charles and Carol Spielberger Scholarship ($5,000)
05/31/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received an SSCP Student Poster Competition Distinguished Contribution award for her poster at APS
05/26/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a National Research Service Award (NRSA/F31) from the National Institute of Mental Health
05/12/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a Student Poster Award from Psi Chi for her poster to be presented at the 2017 Association for Psychological Science conference ($500)
05/11/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes received an NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) award to spend 3 months working with Dr. Eddie Harmon-Jones at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
04/10/17 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes was selected to participate in the 2017 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day all-expense paid intensive training in electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) research design, implementation, and analysis
03/20/17 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova matched to an outstanding internship site, Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville, NC
01/24/17 Graduate student Cope Feurer received a Student Travel Award from the Society for Research in Child Development ($300)
12/25/16 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova received a Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Award
12/20/16 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
10/28/16 Graduate Student Mary Woody won a 1st Place Student Poster Award for the Neurocognitive and Translational Research SIG at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Meeting
10/17/16 Dr. Brandon Gibb attended a 2-day investigator meeting at NIMH to discuss the current status and future of RDoC
05/27/16 Dr. Brandon Gibb received an Annual Meeting Senior Researcher Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
05/25/16 Dr. Brandon Gibb accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board for Clinical Psychological Science
05/12/16 Graduate student Mary Woody successfully defended her dissertation, “Using steady-state visual evoked potentials to evaluate selective attention toward emotional stimuli in remitted depressed women: Impact of a negative mood induction, brooding rumination, and heart rate variability "
05/10/16 Undergraduate Christian Lawlor successfully defended his honor’s thesis, “BIS/BAS sensitivity and psychophysiological responses to social stress"
05/03/16 Undergraduate Emma Lecarie successfully defended her honor’s thesis, “Child and parent perceptions of parenting: Sibling differences and links to child and parent psychopathology”
04/12/16 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse successfully defended her dissertation, “Neural and physiological indices of emotional reactivity in adolescent depression”
04/07/16 Undergraduate Emma Lecarie accepted a postbaccalaureate research position, the Yale Fellowship in Developmental and Computational Social Neuroscience
03/31/16 Undergraduate Emma Lecarie was awarded the Richard G. Burright Award from the Binghamton University Psychology Department, which is given to a graduating senior in psychological science (Psychology major) who demonstrates both academic merit as well as a compelling record of broad interests and activities in both the academy and the outside community
03/30/16 Undergraduate Samantha Fradkin received the Binghamton University Psychology Department Helen B. Daly Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Psychological Science
03/29/16 Graduate student Cope Feurer received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship
03/29/16 Former lab manager Effua Sosoo received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship
03/28/16 Undergraduate Samantha Fradkin accepted a postbaccalaureate research position as part of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Program and will be working at the NIMH Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Imaging Core Facility
03/24/16 Lab manager Kiera James accepted an offer of admissions from Binghamton University’s Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program
03/17/16 Lab manager Nathan Hall accepted an offer of admissions from the Pennsylvania State University's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program
03/15/16 Undergraduate Allegra Anderson accepted a postbaccalaureate clinical research coordinator position at Alvord, Baker & Associates doing research in the D.C. area on the Resilience Builder Program, which is an intervention designed by Dr. Alvord to increase resiliency in children (primarily with anxiety and mood disorders).
03/11/16 Undergraduate Allegra Anderson was selected to participate in the University of Virginia Underrepresented Student Visit day
03/04/16 Postdoctoral Fellow Max Owens accepted a faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
03/02/16 Undergraduate Allegra Anderson was selected to participate in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Diversifying Clinical Psychology Program
02/19/16 Graduate student Mary Woody matched at her top-ranked internship site, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
12/22/15 Dr. Brandon Gibb accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board for Development and Psychopathology
12/18/15 Graduate student Andrea Hanley successfully defended her dissertation, “Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in youth: Rates and correlates”
12/11/15 Graduate student Mary Woody received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
10/17/15 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova received the Smadar Levin award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology
04/29/15 Undergraduate Samantha Birk received the Edward H. Prentice Award from Binghamton University, which is awarded to a graduating senior who has distinguished themselves by character, scholarship, and contribution to the academic and extracurricular life of the University
04/22/15 Lab manager Effua Sosoo was elected as the National Convention Committee Chair of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) Student Circle 2015-2016 Executive Board
04/05/15 Graduate student Mary Woody received a one-semester Dissertation Fellowship from Binghamton University
03/31/15 Lab manager Cope Feurer received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
03/31/15 Lab manager Effua Sosoo received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
03/30/15 Undergraduate research assistant Samantha Birk successfully defended her Honor’s Thesis, “Co-rumination, co-worry, and physiological response to an interpersonal stressor"
03/27/15 Lab manager Effua Sosoo received an honorable mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship
03/11/15 Lab manager Effua Sosoo accepted an offer of admissions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program
02/27/15 Lab manager Cope Feurer accepted an offer of admissions from Binghamton University’s Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program
02/20/15 Our two graduate students who applied to internship this year matched to outstanding sites. Katie Burkhouse will be going to the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry (child track) and Andrea Hanley will be going to the University of New Mexico Health Science Center (child track)
02/07/15 Lab manager Eric Funk accepted an offer of admissions from Binghamton University's Nursing Program
02/02/15 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received a Student Travel Award from the Society for Research in Child Development ($300)
01/20/15 Graduate student Mary Woody received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award ($400)
12/16/14 Graduate student Mary Woody received Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Award
11/28/14 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse’s research was the focus of a segment on local TV News Channel 34
11/25/14 Graduate student Aliona Tyspes had her research highlighted in the Binghamton University student newspaper, Pipe Dream link
11/14/14 Graduate student Aliona Tsypes had her research highlighted in the Binghamton University online magazine, Discover-e link
10/27/14 Graduate student Mary Woody received Departmental Honors in Research, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University
10/02/14 Lab manager Effua Sosoo was selected to participate in the University of Michigan Diversity Recruitment Weekend
09/10/14 Graduate student Mary Woody received the Ruth G and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship from the American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments in Psychology ($3000)
09/01/14 Former graduate student Peggy Andover was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at Fordham University
09/01/14 Former graduate student Ashley Johnson received an Early Career Award from the Autistic Spectrum and Developmental Disorders Special Interest Group for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
06/16/14 Graduate student Mary Woody received an honorable mention for Anne Anastasi General Psychology Research Award from APA
06/15/14 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova had her research highlighted in the Psychology Department’s annual newsletter (pp. 6-7)
03/31/14 Incoming graduate student Aliona Tsypes received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship
03/31/14 Graduate student Mary Woody was selected to participate in the 2014 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day all-expense paid intensive training in electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) research design, implementation, and analysis
03/24/14 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received an Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship ($25,000)
03/10/14 Undergraduate student Samantha Birk received an Undergraduate Conference Travel Award to help fund her travel to the 2014 Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) conference, during which she will present a poster
02/27/14 Lab manager Effua Sosoo was selected to participate in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Diversifying Clinical Psychology Program (1 of 20 selected out of over 160 applicants)
01/24/14 Graduate student Mary Woody received a Psi Chi Unrestricted Travel Grant to fund her travel to the 2014 Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) conference, during which she presented a talk as part of a symposium
01/08/14 Former graduate student Ashley Johnson Harrison accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Educational Psychology – School Psychology, at the University of Georgia
01/01/14 Lab manager Devra Alper accepted an offer of admissions from the University of Pittsburgh to attend their Master of Occupational Therapy program
12/20/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received a Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Dissertation Award
12/19/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received the Binghamton University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
11/20/13 Graduate student Mary Woody had her Master's thesis accepted as a first-author publication at Journal of Abnormal Psychology
11/06/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received an American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
10/24/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received Departmental Honors in Research, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University
09/01/13 Dr. Brandon Gibb was promoted to Full Professor
07/01/13 Former graduate student Lindsey Stone started a postdoctoral fellowship at Western Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
06/19/13 Graduate student Anastacia Kudinova was awarded the Nancy B. Forest and L. Michael Honaker Master’s Scholarship for Research in Psychology from APA
06/15/13 Graduate student Lindsey Stone had her research highlighted in the Psychology Department’s annual newsletter (p. 5)
04/13/13 Dr. Brandon Gibb received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York
04/01/13 Dr. Max Owens started as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab
04/01/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse was selected to participate in the 2013 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day all-expense paid intensive training in electroencephalogram (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) research design, implementation, and analysis
02/13/13 Graduate student Lindsey Stone received a Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Travel Award
02/13/13 Graduate student Katie Burkhouse received a Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Travel Award