Wrapping 2020!

We’ve had a busy fall term, with a strong lab presence at Psychonomics and the Acoustical Society of America Meetings, including presentations from graduate and undergraduate students. Jonathan Wright won one of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Conference Travel Awards for his work on classifying speech in adverse listening conditions. He and Dae-yong Lee are presenting work at the ASA meeting this week.

We’ve welcomed several new undergraduate students to the lab, including Michael Allen, Sabrina Piccolo, Jay Taylor, and Maya Treder. They’ve hit the ground running - Sabrina is working on her honors thesis and has been awarded a Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her project on interactions between unfamiliar accents, credibility, professionalism, and memory.

Zoë Haupt, Tillena Trebon, Maggie Wallace, and Allegra Wesson presented work at the Psychonomic Society and Acoustical Society of America Meetings. Tillie is also presenting her honors thesis at ASA this week. Zoë will present joint work with Melissa and our colleague Don Daniels at the Australian Linguistic Society Meeting next week. (Yes, for those of you keeping track, that’s three conferences and three different projects for Zoë, a third year undergraduate student!)

We’re also excited to welcome visitors to our lab. Recent Arizona grad, Shiloh Drake, has been hanging out with the lab this year, and is already a great contributor to our team. In January Rachel Weissler, a PhD candidate at University of Michigan will be joining us as a Courtesy Research Associate.

We’ve had fun this fall bonding (remotely) over lab pets (Hamilton & Eliza! Lulu! Margot! Frankie & Joey!), new recipes, and comfort food (both literal food and of the pop-culture variety). We’re excited to see what 2021 brings for the lab!