Awards and Recognitions

  • Meghan Whalen was awarded a Tufts Graduate Student Research Competition grant for her project "Affect labeling in fear extinction: can use of word labels enhance extinction?"

  • Sara Velasquez presented "The relationship between dispositional cognitive reappraisal skills and the efficacy of a cognitive restructuring manipulation during fear conditioning" at the ADAA conference

  • Nur Akpolat presented "Is There a Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Physiological Responses During Fear Conditioning?" at the ADAA conference

  • Rachel Goodman has been selected as a Summer Scholar for Summer 2024 to continue her work in the TEAM Lab

  • Meghan Whalen has been granted the Jeffrey Stibel Cognitive Science Fellowship for Summer 2024

  • Abby Beech has accepted a position as a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Boston University and will be starting there Fall 2024

  • Sara Velazquez has accepted a position as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for OCD and Related Disorders and will be starting there Summer 2024

  • November 2023: Abigail Beech and Dr. Xandra Kredlow presented in symposium “When is it helpful to revisit the anxious past? The relevance of symptom-related autobiographical memories in anxiety and related disorders” at ABCT 2023

  • November 2023: Meghan Whalen presented and Abigail Beech chaired symposium “Mechanisms of fear across development and across diagnoses” at ABCT 2023

  • November 2023: Abigail Beech is awarded a travel award for ABCT 2023

  • May 2023: Nur Akpolat graduates from Tufts

  • May 2023: Meghan Whalen receives Deborah Greenwald Summer Fellowship

  • April 2023: Dr. Xandra Kredlow receives a Psyche Award for Most Valuable Paper on integrating science and practice in 2022 by the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

  • April 2023: Nur Akpolat successfully defends senior honors thesis

  • March 2023: Abby Beech has poster spotlight at SAS 2023

  • March 2023: Meghan Whalen presents a poster at SAS conference 2023

  • January 2023: Meghan Whalen receives Graduate Student Research Competition funding award for the project "Fear Conditioning and Extinction: A Standard Laboratory Paradigm with Affect Labeling"