ATL at the APA Advanced Training Institute.

Graduate Students Mary Kate Koch and Kaylin Ratner will be attending a 5 day statistical seminar from the American Psychological Association on structural equation modeling in longitudinal research. This advanced training institute is open to 35 people and will be held in Tempe Arizona May 30th-June 3rd.

The APA describes this seminar as, “designed to highlight recent methodological advances in the analysis of longitudinal psychological data using structural equation modeling (SEM). The training is intended for faculty, postdocs and advanced graduate students who have had an introduction to SEM. The workshop covers a range of topics, including growth models, factorial invariance, dealing with incomplete data, growth mixture models, ordinal outcomes, and latent change score models”.

 

 

ATL undergraduate Emily Rosenthal receives summer research grant

Junior undergraduate research assistant Emily Rosenthal has been awarded the Marjorie A. Corwin Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Emily’s senior thesis project looks at the influence of [experimentally manipulated] context on how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is thought of as part of one’s identity for individuals with the disorder. Emily will also be assisting Dr. Mendle and the lab with the upcoming Healthy Transitions project.

 

 

PRYDE Scholars

Undergraduate research assistants Julia Lesnick and Emily Rosenthal were both recently selected as PRYDE Scholars. PRYDE  stands for Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement, and is a program of the Bronfenbrenner center for translational research. The Bronfenbrenner center focuses on bridging the gap between doing research and implementing said research in the real world. PRYDE is currently partnering with 4-H to produce research on how young adolescents experience puberty. PRYDE scholars put additional time into these projects and get more exposure to the research process along the way.