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ATL at SRA 2018

Come meet the members of the Adolescent Transitions Lab at SRA!

Four members of the ATL will be presenting at the Society for Research in Adolescence Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, MN from April 12-14

Thursday, April 12:

Effects of pubertal status, relative age, and perceived pubertal timing on depression.   Emily Rosenthal, Jane Mendle, 11:45-12:45

Saturday, April 14:

Puberty and mental health:  what can we learn by integrating developmental pathways across the lifespan.  Jane Mendle, 10:15-11:45 am

The impact of pubertal timing on rejection thoughts and outcomes.  Julia Lesnick, Kirsten M.P. McKone, Jane Mendle, 11:45-12:45

The pubertal transition and perceived role disruption.  Mary Kate Koch, Kirsten M.P. McKone, Jane Mendle, 2:45-3:45

 

 

ATL Research In The News

The Adolescent Transitions Lab’s newest work on the long term effects of early menarche has been published in Pediatrics and profiled in the mass media.  Read more about our newest study:

Reuters:  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-puberty-women-depression/girls-early-puberty-tied-to-depression-behavior-problems-into-adulthood-idUSKBN1EK15W

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5447701/Effects-early-puberty-girls-adulthood.html

Bustle:  https://www.bustle.com/p/getting-your-period-young-is-related-to-depressive-symptoms-as-adult-according-to-a-new-study-7717562

ATL Undergraduate Julia Lesnick Presents Summer Research

Julia Lesnick, undergraduate senior thesis student at the ATL,  presented at the 2017 Cornell Cooperative Extension Internship Reception on October 11th. This reception allowed students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology to showcase the results from their internships to Extension educators, Cornell faculty, and their community mentors.

Students from across both colleges apply to specific projects that work with local Cornell Cooperative Extension offices to do applied research. There are a diverse range of projects, all of which strive to tie research and outreach in a way that benefits communities across New York State. Selected interns are required to document their experiences by blogging and presenting their findings at the reception at the end of summer.

Over the summer, Julia worked under the mentorship of June Mead, a CCE Program Leader, to address the need for improved trauma care training in Broome County. Julia developed a professional development workshop in trauma informed care to combat high rates of youth trauma resulting from poverty, natural disasters, and drug abuse problems. Julia’s work aims to deliver better youth care and support by training youth providers with evidence backed research. Her program trained over 50 direct youth program providers and helped staff enhance their understandings of trauma and to provide each program with tools to promote resilience and recovery.

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.

ATL at SRA 2016

Five undergraduate members of the Adolescent Transitions Lab, the lab’s manager, and Dr. Mendle all journeyed south to Baltimore March 31-April 2 for the 2016 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Seniors Taylor McGuire and Kathleen McCormick presented a poster on the associations of rumination and depression at puberty, and Dr. Mendle presented in a panel on interdisciplinary approaches to research on puberty.

In addition to attending sessions and engaging in conversations about the latest findings in adolescent research, lab members also joined members from Dr. Burrow’s lab for dinner on the town!