This week, I’ll be attending the CARTA symposium on the Origin of Humans as an anthropogeny specialization track student.
It will be my first CARTA symposium and I’m excited to see what kinds of discussions our speakers have with one another.
If you want to watch/attend, it is free and will be broadcast. I’d love to discuss topics with people afterward.
Link to event page.
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)! I will be a part of this wonderful, interdisciplinary program as Ph.D anthropogeny specialization track student. CARTA is a one of a kind program that brings together researchers from the biological, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as scholars from the arts and humanities, with important technological input from the physical, chemical, and computing sciences. Together, researchers aim to understand humankind, how we got here and where we’re going.
Our department is hosting a joint symposium with those from Pacific Science and Engineering (PSE). I presented my first-year research on a new type of lineup and how it informs us about the mechanisms of human memory in regard to facial recognition.
This year, I was the opener for our department’s year-end “Little APS” event. It went well!
I presented a new type of lineup procedure that some argued could be the new “future” lineup. Our analyses showed that it is *not* a superior lineup. However, we received great feedback from audience members about an alternate model we could fit to the data as well as alternative conditions worth running that may aid in confirming our initial findings.
I’ve officially committed to the University of California, San Diego in the fall for a doctoral program in experimental cognitive psychology.
Excited, grateful and incredibly inspired are only a few of the many emotions I’m feeling at this moment in time. Thank you SO much to Dr. John Wixted who offered me a position in his memory laboratory. Every time I step on the UCSD campus, I feel like I’m at home. I know this is the place I am meant to be and that I will produce excellent work in this program. Even though I didn’t verbalize this during my interviews: I have been eyeing this program at UCSD since 2013.
Furthermore, thank you so much to UC Santa Cruz and UC Riverside for extending admission offers as well. As a first-generation college student, the privilege of being offered the opportunity to earn a Ph.D at such prestigious research programs is not lost on me.
Once again, thank you. I’m humbled, but ready to put in the work.
I am immensely happy to report that this month I will be joining the Wixted Lab as a post-baccalaureate research assistant! Even though this is a volunteer position, I am thrilled to continue studying eyewitness memory. My undergraduate thesis only scratched the surface; now it’s time to reexamine the same material through the lens of basic recognition memory science and the theories popularized within that field.
Thank you, Dr. John Wixted for this opportunity!