2026 Lab News
July 2026
Ivan Mui presented his first talk at the McNair 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, titled, “Developing an inventory of identity-safety and identity-threat cues across contexts”
Izilda received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Publication Prize for her 2026 publication on K-8 identity-safety cues (Social Psychological and Personality Science Journal, SPPS).
June 2026
Congrats to Ivan Mui for becoming a McNair Scholar!
May 2026
Congrats to Kelsey, Mackenzie, and Tanner for finishing their last semester at UB! Thank you for all your help as RAs.
April 2026
Congrats to Kelsey Solomon! She presented her first research poster, “Gender minority’s perspectives of a transgender-inclusive poster in organizational settings” at CAS Undergraduate Research Showcase.
Congrats to Ivan Mui! He presented his research poster, “How can organizations support gender minority employees? A qualitative examination” at CAS Undergraduate Research Showcase and the Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference.
February 2026
Izilda presented a talk about a video-based intervention to boost confrontations at SPSP’s 2026 Convention in Chicago! This research is with her collaborators, Drs. Grace Drake and Calvin Lai.
January 2026
Congrats to Terrell Thompson! He received the UB Psychology Department’s DEI grant for an independent research proposal.
Izilda received the Fall 2025 SPSSI Grants-in-Aid.
July 2026
Izilda attended the Intervention Science course of the 2026 Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology.