Lab Happenings

Check out what members of the Cognitive Development Lab have been up to lately!

Bloomington Pridefest 2024

Lab members volunteered in the family zone at Bloomington Pridefest on September 14, 2024. We had lots of fun making sand art, doing a tie-dye craft, and coloring with all of the families that stopped by!

Total Solar Eclipse 2024

Lab members enjoyed the total solar eclipse in the path of totality on April 8, 2024.

Annual Holiday Gathering

Dr. Linda Smith hosted the Cognitive Development Lab for our annual holiday party!

Labsgiving

Members of the Cognitive Development Lab gathered and enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal!

OwlNet Project

IU Inspired Quilts

Lab members Sara and Kelly worked hard on these quilts inspired by the cream and crimson of IU. They celebrated their work with a photo shoot on our beautiful campus!

Reinstating a holiday tradition!

For the first time since 2019, Dr. Smith hosted the Cognitive Development Lab at her home for the annual holiday party! We sang holiday carols and spread the holiday cheer before everyone left for the semester.

Summer 2022

Members of the lab celebrated the beginning of summer at Bloomington's "Food Truck Friday" with popsicles and spike ball!

Members of the lab at Bloomington's strawberry shortcake festival.

It was hard to say goodbye to Dr. Clerkin, but we are excited for your next chapter and wish you all the best at the NIH!

Enjoying the summer with a picnic and hike around Griffy Lake.

Enjoying a cool summer evening outdoors with a showing of the movie "Hoosiers"

June 2022

Hadar Karmazyn Raz defended her outstanding dissertation and will continue her research as a post-doctoral fellow in the lab. Congrats Dr. Karmazyn Raz!

September 2021

Elizabeth Clerkin did an outstanding dissertation defense and is our newest PhD. Congratulations Dr. Clerkin! Cheers!

Summer 2020

Linda and Char had a goodbye picnic with Lei Yuan and Emily Johns in the courtyard behind the lab. Lei has accepted a position as assistant professor in psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Emily moved to Missouri and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Lauren Slone (not pictured) accepted an assistant professor position at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Summer 2019

Yu and Smith labs celebrated with frisbee play, cornhole, good food and fond farewells to Drew Abney, Catalina Suarez Rivera and Daniel Pearcy. Drew has accepted a position as assistant professor in psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Catalina has obtained her PhD and will be a postdoc in Catherine Tamis- LeMonda's lab at New York University. Daniel is pursuing opportunities to further his goal of becoming a genetic counselor.