Brooke Publishes First-Author Paper

Congrats to Brooke, whose first-authored manuscript titled “Associations of polygenic scores and developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors” was published in Development and Psychopathology!  

LiChen Receives Department TA Award

Congratulations to LiChen, who received a Psychology Department TA Award. He has TA’d for our graduate-level statistics courses, Psych 610 and 710, for two years. We are so happy his hard work was awarded!

Frank Accepts Faculty Position at SMU

Frank He, who accepted a faculty position at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX! He will be joining the Department of Psychology as a tenure-track assistant professor in August, 2025. Meanwhile, Frank is working hard …

Macy Receives Department Award

Macy Goldfarb, one of our amazing undergraduate RAs, was a recipient of the Bryan’s Aspiring Psychology Student Award. This award recognizes student academic excellence, based on GPA, with the aim of supporting and encouraging future …

Brooke and LiChen to Present at ISRCAP 2025

Congrats to Brooke and LiChen, whose abstracts were accepted for poster presentations at The International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) in Vancouver, Canada in June 2025! Brooke will be presenting her …

Rebekah Completing Master of Public Policy

Congrats to Rebekah, our UW LINK Study Coordinator, who is working on her Master of Public Policy online with Oregon State University with a focus on disability issues in policy (e.g., efficacy of disability social …

SBDL Attends SRP in Montreal

James, Frank, Brooke, and LiChen all attended the Society for Research in Psychopathology conference in Montreal, Canada this month. James gave a talk titled “Enhancing the Discriminatory Power of Neurodevelopmental Polygenic Scores in Clinical and …

Dr. Li Awarded WARF Competition

Dr. Li was recognized with the 2024-2025 Fall Competition Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).  This award will support his project “A New Framework for Diagnosing Mental Disorders: Is it Applicable to Diverse …