ICD PhD student and post-doc 2022 highlights
Recent presentations
Ferguson, G. M., Simenec, T. S., Banegas, J., Meeks, J. M., Nelson, M., Koester, B., Fiese, B. H., Powell, R., Harnack, L., Anderson, A., Ibrahim, S., Dwivedi, R., JUS Media Team. (2022, September). Transdisciplinary team science for adolescent health: A data walk from USA to Jamaica and back. Presentation delivered at the Society for Research in Child Development Special Topic Meeting.
Ferguson, G. M., Simenec, T. S., & Ibrahim S. (2022, August). Supporting the health and well-being of students from immigrant and refugee backgrounds during dual pandemics. Presentation delivered at the Leading in Equity, Action, and Diversity (LEAD) conference.
Simenec, T.S., Banegas, J., Willer, M., Muldrew, L., Gewirtz, A. (2022, June). Development and initial validation of an online parenting program for refugee families: Parenting in the moment/PIM. Presentation delivered at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting.
Marissa Nivison presented a talk entitled “Caregiving Antecedents of Secure Base Script Knowledge Inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A Comparative, Pre-Registered Analysis” at the International Attachment Conference in Lison this past July. She also received a travel grant from the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies to attend this conference.
Sanju Koirala presented posters at Flux 2022, Paris; SfN 2022, CA; ISDP 2022, CA.
Reilly, E. B., Gunnar, M. R. (2022, Nov). Do loving-kindness meditations reduce parent salivary alpha amylase during parent-child interactions? Poster presented at the meeting of International Society for Developmental Psychobiology: San Diego, CA.
Mirinda Morency and Ekomobong Eyoh presented their first-year research project at the ICD bag lunch in November. Mirinda’s project Do School and Family Factors in Childhood Predict Midlife Psychological Well-being? Findings from an Urban Childhood Cohort looked at the impact of school and family contextual factors on later psychological well-being. The study sought to primarily examine the relations between school quality and parent involvement in childhood and midlife psychological well-being utilizing the Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS). Ekomobong’s project The Longitudinal Acquisition of Social-Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers aimed to map the normative longitudinal trajectories of the acquisition of social-emotional competence in infants and toddlers aged 12-35 months and identify child and family factors that moderate these trajectories.
Recent publications
Magro, S.W., Nivison, M.D., Englund, M. M., & Roisman, G.I. The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221137511
A Stage 2 registered report entitled “Caregiving Antecedents of Secure Base Script Knowledge Inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A Comparative, Pre-Registered Analysis. Infant and Child Development” led by Marissa Nivison was recently accepted for publication.
Reilly, E. B., & Stuyvenberg, C. (2022). Loving-kindness meditations increase self-compassion: A meta-analysis. Mindfulness.
Reilly, E. B., Dickerson, K. Pierce, L., Leppänen, J., Valdes, V., Gharib, A., Thompson, B. L., Schlueter, L., J., Levitt, P., & Nelson, C. A. (2022). Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat-related facial expressions. Developmental Psychobiology.
Simenec, T.S., Banegas, J., Para Cardona, J.R., & Gewirtz, A. (in press).Culturally responsive targeted social media marketing to facilitate engagement with the Parenting in the Moment program. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Simenec, T.S., Gillespie, S., Hodges, H.R., Ibrahim, S., Eckerstorfer, S., JUS Media? Adaptation Team, & Ferguson G.M. (2022). A novel blueprint storyboarding method using digitization for efficient cultural adaptation of prevention programs to serve diverse youth and communities. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01460-7
Awards
Sanju Koirala was awarded the 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award by Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.
Sanju Koirala was awarded the 2022 Student Travel Award for International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.
Sanju Koirala was awarded the Robert and Corrie Beck Fellowship from the College of Education and Human Development.
Emmy Reilly received an Honorable Mention for the SRCD dissertation funding award.
Kudos
Romulus Castelo completed a quantitative research internship with Meta (Facebook) in summer 2022.
Tori Simenec accepted a position as the Society for Research on Adolescence Social Media Representative.
Sanju Koirala and Isabelle Morris were accepted as Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MNLEND) 2022 fellows.
Mirinda Morency was selected for the Hennepin-University Partnership (HUP) Spring ’23 Evaluation Assistantship. She will be consulting with the Hennepin County Safe Communities Department, whose goal is to prevent, reduce, and mitigate gun violence, particularly among youth and young adults in communities of color. The evaluation topic she will be working on is “Promoting Safe Communities.”