Congratulations to graduate student Nick Chen for successfully defending his Master's thesis, entitled "Does Socioeconomic Status Moderate the Link between Marital Quality and Health?" His thesis committee consisted of Dr. Williamson, Dr. Lisa Neff, and Dr. Saehwang Han. Great job Nick!Read more about Graduate student Nick Chen defends his Master's thesis
INS gradduate student, Maddie Dwortz (Curley Lab), was first author on a review article entitled "Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank," published in the Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Dwortz MF, Curley JP, Tye KM, Padilla-Coreano N. Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 Feb 28;377(1845):20200444.
Dr. Williamson has been named a Rising Star of the Association for Psychological Science. The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers after getting their PhDs whose innovative work has already advanced the field of psychology and signal great Read more about Dr. Williamson named APS Rising Star
This weekend graduate student Nick Chen presented his research about cross-cultural differences in the transformation of motivation process in close relationships at the SPSP 2022 conference. Check out his poster! Read more about Nick Chen presents research at SPSP
I recently banded two Green Jays in Del Rio, TX, which is the absolute western range limit. Beyond Del Rio, the habitat is mostly Chihuahuan desert and not suitable for the species. We'll have to see if they continue alogn the Rio Grande to the Big Bend area.
PI Keitt spent several weeks catching birds in the Yucatan this winter as part of our ConTex-funded Geen Jay project. We bled 5 more jays brining our total to 7 for the region. We're now up to 30 blood samples in Texas. Read more about Yucatan field work
