Lab News
2023
2022
Maria Costanza Benvenuti joined the lab as a first year clinical doctoral student.
Olivia Warner was awarded an NRSA fellowship from NIAAA to support her dissertation project examining the influence of gender norms on drinking behavior among minoritized populations.
Laura Hatz defended her Ph.D. and started a T32 post-doctoral fellowship at UC San Diego.
Anna Maralit gave a talk at the APA Annual Convention.
Anna Maralit has a first-authored paper accepted in Ethics and Behavior.
Anna Maralit won the 2022 APA Graduate Student Ethics Writing competition.
Courtney Motschman started as a User Researcher for Thermo Fisher Scientific
Courtney Motschman gave a presentation at RSA in Orlando, FL
Olivia Warner won the Department of Psychological Sciences Graduate Student Diversity Award.
Anna Maralit was selected as a subcommittee member for the APAGS Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
2021
Charlie Darmour joined the lab as a first year clinical doctoral student.
Olivia Warner defended her M.A.
Kayleigh McCarty defended her Ph.D. and started a T32 post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University.
Laura Hatz started her clinical internship at UC San Diego.
Peja James (Howard University) and Trinity Shaya (University of Cincinnati) join the lab for the summer as part of the MU-ARTSS program.
Jake Sauer (BA, University of Missouri, 2021) joined the lab as a project coordinator.
2020
Kayleigh McCarty started her clinical internship at Brown University.
Alison Haney (Ph.D., Purdue University) joins the lab as a post-doctoral trainee on our T32. Alison will be co-mentored by Tim Trull.
Sara McMullin (Ph.D., Saint Louis University) joins the lab as a post-doctoral trainee on our T32, primarily mentored by Clint Davis-Stober.
Anna Maralit joins the lab as a first year clinical doctoral student.
Laura Hatz gave a talk at this year's virtual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.
Capstone student Lane Burdette was accepted into the graduate program in international affairs at Texas A & M University.
Lab staff Avi Desai was accepted into the graduate program for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Akron.
Courtney Motschman has first-authored papers accepted in Psychopharmacology and Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
The MU Alcohol Research Training Summer School (MU-ARTSS) program was renewed for 5 more years.
Laura Hatz has a first-authored paper in Psychological Science on sexual decision making.
2019
Lab alumnae Sarah Pedersen was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Laura Hatz won the APA dissertation Research award.
Lab Director McCarthy gave a plenary talk at this year's APA convention in Chicago.
Laura Hatz and Kayleigh McCarty both gave talks at this year's meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology in Montreal.
Dr. Courtney Motschman (Ph.D., University of Buffalo) joins the lab as a post-doctoral trainee on our T32.
Lab alumnus Dr. David Morris accepted a new position at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University Medical School.
Rachel Wesley (BA, Mizzou, 2019) joined the lab as a project coordinator.
Andrea Wycoff received an NRSA fellowship from NIAAA to support her dissertation project examining simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis.
Callie Vitro from American University joins the lab for the summer as part of the MU-ARTSS program.
Lab Director McCarthy became a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Kayleigh McCarty was a pre-doctoral finalist for the RSA Gordis award. She gave a talk presenting her project at this year’s RSA conference in Minneapolis.
Christiana Prestigiacomo was accepted into the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at IUPUI. She will be working with Dr. Melissa Cyders.
Kayleigh McCarty had a first authored paper accepted in the APA journal Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Laura Hatz received an NRSA fellowship from NIAAA to support her dissertation project examining mathematic models of decision making under intoxication.
2018
Olivia Warner joined the lab as a first-year clinical doctoral student.
Laura Hatz and Kayleigh McCarty both gave talks at this year’s meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology.
Laura Hatz had a first authored paper accepted in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Kayleigh McCarty received an NRSA fellowship from NIAAA to support her dissertation project examining neural correlates of decision making and to expand her training in neuroscience.
Christiana Prestigiacomo joins the lab as project coordinator.