News & Awards
News & Awards
Friday & Saturday, April 12&13, 2024
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Presentations
Congratulations to our Lab members Kyle Hatcher, Ellie McLane, and Abigail Sisneros for presenting at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association in Denver! Kyle presented on "Remembering What Matters: The Emergence of Value-Directed Remembering in Preschool-Aged Children", Ellie presented on "The Testing Effect in Children: An Examination of Hints and Confidence During Children's Retrieval of Science Facts", and Abigail presented on "An Investigation of Academic Help-Seeking Behaviors in College-Aged Adults". View their posters here: Kyle Poster.pdf, Ellie Poster.pdf, Abigail Poster.pdf
Monday, April 8, 2024
Congratulations Heidi Martinez!
Congratulations to one of our Graduate Students Heidi Martinez, for passing her Thesis Defense!
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Congratulations Ellie McLane!
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Ellie McLane, for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Award!
Friday, December 8, 2023
Mountain Lion Research Day
Congratulations to our lab members, Ellie McLane, Miriam Shamess, and Kyle Hatcher, for presenting at UCCS's Mountain Lion Research Day! Ellie presented on "Investigating Help-seeking as an Active Learning Strategy in Memory Integration", Miriam presented on "The Role of Feedback in the Development of Value-Based Remembering", and Kyle presented on "The Development of Preschoolers Value-Based Remembering: An Examination of Encoding Behavior and Eye-movements". View their posters here! MLRDF23Posters.pdf
Monday, December 4th, 2023
Congratulations to Shannon Tiffenbach!
Congratulations to one of our research assistants, Shannon Tiffenbach, for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Award!
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Congratulations to Our Honors Students 2023!
Many congratulations to Grai and Nadia!
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Congratulations Grai, Nadia, & Ellie
So proud of our three research assistants who successfully presented at Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum! Grai Calabro and Ellie McLane's poster was titled Active Control Effects on Children's Learning Strategies of Value-based Information. Nadia Jeunelot's poster was titled Early Development of Value-Based Remembering. View their poster presentations here.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Congratulations Grai Calabro
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Grai Calabro, on her successful poster presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development conference! Her poster was titled Comparing Children's Help-seeking Intentions. View her poster presentation here.
Friday, December 1, 2022
Mountain Lion Research Day
Congratulations to our lab members, Grai Calabro and Nadia Jeunelot, for presenting at UCCS's Mountain Lion Research Day! Grai presented on "The Effect of Children's Active Study Control on Value-Based Remembering" and Nadia presented on "Early Development of Value-Based Remembering".
Friday, October 21, 2022
Student Research Showcase: Grai Calabro
Our research assistants Grai Calabro was showcased for the research she is conducing in the Cognitive Development Lab.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Cool Science Day at UCCS
Our research assistants had fun connecting with local families, playing the memory game, and teaching children about metamemory at the Cool Science Day Festival hosted at UCCS.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Congratulations Heidi Martinez!
Congratulations to our graduate student, Heidi, for being awarded the Small Research Grant for UCCS Psychology Graduate Students!
Friday, April 22, 2022
Congratulations Michelle Shields!
Congratulations to our graduate student, Michelle, for presenting her poster "Get a Hint: An Investigation of the Development of Help-Seeking Behaviors During Learning" at the bi-annual Cognitive Development Society Conference.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Congratulations Grai Calabro!
Congratulations to Grai Calabro, one of our research assistants, on receiving an Undergraduate Research Academy Award!
Friday, April 9, 2022
Congratulations to Michelle and Elizabeth!
Congratulations to our lab members, Michelle Shields and Elizabeth Anquillare, for presenting at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association's annual convention! They presented "How helpful is a hint?: The role of hints in children’s retrieval based learning."
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Congratulations to Alisha and Grai!
Congratulations to our undergraduate research assistants, Alisha Silkey and Grai Calabro, for presenting posters at CSURF! Alisha presented "Objective and Subjective Help Seeking Behaviors in Children" and Grai presented "The Effect of Value on Children's Learning Strategies."
Friday, April 1, 2022
Congratulations Michelle Shields!
Congratulations to our graduate student, Michelle Shields, for successfully defending her master's thesis! Thank you to all of the families who participated!
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Congratulations Elizabeth Anquillare!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Anquillare, one of our research assistants, for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Award!
Friday, March 18, 2022
Congratulations Alisha Silkey!
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Alisha Silkey, for earning the UCCS Ron Wisner Human Spirit and Leadership award!
Friday, December 3, 2021
Congratulations Caitlyn Dieckmann
Congratulations to one of our research assistants, Caitlyn Dieckmann, for presenting her first research poster at Mountain Lion Research Day!
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Psychonomics Poster Presentation
Check out the recent research presented by Michelle Shields, our graduate student, at Psychonomics 2021.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Congratulations to the Cognitive Development Lab
Congratulations to the Cognitive Development Lab for their recent publication entitled Remote Research Methods: Considerations for Work with Children. Read this paper here.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Children's Museum Trunk or Treat
Our crazy scientists had a blast at the Children's Museum Trunk or Treat event, meeting families, seeing costumes, and running memory games!
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Cool Science Carnival Day at UCCS
Our research assistants enjoyed teaching children about memory and meeting families at the UCCS Cool Science Day event!
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Family Science Day at the WMMI
Our research assistants had a great time teaching children about memory at the Western Museum Mining and Industry Science Day event!
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Congratulations Morgan McGinnis
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Morgan McGinnis, for successfully defending her honors thesis entitled The Effects of Feedback on Value Based Learning. She also presented on this work at the Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum. View her poster presentation here.
Monday, April 26, 2021
Congratulations Dr. Selmeczy
Congratulations to Dr. Selmeczy, for receiving a Research and Creative Works seed grant to examine how children seek help in order to improve their learning!
Friday, March 26, 2021
Congratulations Michelle Shields
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Michelle Shields, for winning the Graduate Fellowship Research Award!
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Check out our video for Cool Science Day 2020 by clicking here!
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Congratulations Morgan McGinnis
Congratulations to one of our Research Assistants, Morgan McGinnis, on her acceptance into the Undergraduate Research Academy program where she will be conducting her honors thesis! Morgan’s thesis aims to investigate the strategies adults use to remember information and how adults self-reflect about their memory. This program will provide Morgan’s thesis the necessary funding and guidance to support her dedication to both inside and outside of the lab.
Monday, December 2, 2019
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Saturday, October 12, 2019
UCCS Science Day Cognitive Development Lab Debut