UCSD

Officially joined CARTA!

CARTA, Personal Blog, UC San Diego

Anthropogeny

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.

Link to the CARTA webpage.

Graduate School

Psychology, UC San Diego, Wixted Lab

UC San Diego

Wixted Lab

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.

Joining the Wixted Lab at UCSD

Psychology, UC San Diego, Wixted Lab

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!