October 2024:
*SAND Lab Newsletter: Volume 3!
*Dr. Natalie Saragosa-Harris Successfully Defends Dissertation!
August 2024:
* Natalie Saragosa-Harris Accepts Role at UCLA’s Center for the Developing Adolescent
June 2024:
*Dr. Silvers Receives 2024 Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award
May 2024:
*RA Audrey Lai Receives Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity
April 2024:
*Dr. Silvers to speak at FLUX’s Navigating the Teen Mind: Insights into Adolescent Mental Health
September 2023:
*SAND Lab Newsletter: Volume 2!
May 2023:
*Dr. Adriana Mendéz Leal Successfully Defends Dissertation!
April 2023:
*Dr. Razia Sahi Successfully Defends Dissertation!
March 2023:
*Natalie Saragosa-Harris Successfully Proposes Dissertation
December 2022:
*Maya O’Kelly Accepted into the UCLA Undergraduate Research Fellows Program
September 2022:
* SAND Lab Newsletter: Volume 1!
August 2022:
* Audrey Lai Receives UCLA Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Award
June 2022:
* Dr. Silvers Receives Flux 2022 Young Investigator Award
* Register for UCLA Psychology Presents: Risk and Resilience: How Stress and Adversity Shape Youth
April 2022:
* Dr. Silvers Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
November 2021:
* Wesley Meredith Presents on Inhibitory Control for the Psychology 251 Series
* João Guassi Moreira Successfully Defends Dissertation
June 2021:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded American Psychological Foundation’s John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant
March 2021:
* Elizabeth Gaines Hired as New Lab Manager Starting Summer 2021
* Yael Waizman received an Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP
February 2021:
* Razia Sahi’s work from the SAND Lab mentioned in an article published in the Greater Good Magazine
* The SAND Lab is hiring a new lab manager this summer (2021)
November 2020:
* Alejandra Delgado Accepted to UCLA’s Psychology Research Opportunity Program
October 2020:
* Dr. Silvers Appointed New Jeffrey/Wenzel Term Chair
June 2020:
* Dr. Silvers received the Boyd McCandless Award
May 2020:
* SAND Lab’s Undergraduates Present Research at URW!
April 2020:
* Adriana Méndez Leal and Natalie Saragosa-Harris awarded with the T32 predoctoral fellowship
March 2020:
* Adriana Méndez Leal awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
* Adriana Méndez Leal received an honorable mention for a Ford Foundation Fellowship
October 2019:
* João Guassi Moreira Presenting at the SfN 2019 Meeting
* Prospective graduate students for Fall 2020
September 2019:
* Yael Waizman Presenting at the SRP 2019 Annual Conference
* Claire Waller selected as an Undergraduate Research Scholar
* Adriana and João Presenting at Flux Congress 2019
August 2019:
* Dr. Silvers Recognized with NSF Early-Career Award
July 2019:
* João Guassi Moreira selected to receive a BRI/Semel Institute Graduate Travel Award
June 2019:
* Dr. Silvers selected as a 2019-2020 UCLA Hellman Fellow
May 2019:
* SAND Lab’s Undergraduates Present Research at PURC!
April 2019:
* Adriana Méndez Leal awarded a Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
* Natalie Saragosa-Harris awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
March 2019:
* João Guassi Moreira Presenting at the SRCD 2019 Biennial Meeting
* Dr. Silvers Received an Early Career Research Contributions Award
February 2019:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded a Seed Grant
* João Guassi Moreira’s paper was published at Developmental Psychology
November 2018:
* Dr. Silvers, Adriana, João, and Yael Presenting at the ISDP 51st Annual Meeting
September 2018:
* Prospective graduate students for Fall 2019
August 2018:
* João Guassi Moreira Presenting at Flux Congress
July 2018:
* Dr. Silvers received the ISDP 2018 Kucharski Young Investigator Award
* Adriana and João received a Travel Award to attend the 2018 ISDP meeting
June 2018:
* Casandra and Julia Complete UCLA Psychology Research Opportunity Programs (PROPS)
May 2018:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded Faculty Research Grant
April 2018:
* SAND Lab Welcomes New Graduate Student Adriana Méndez Leal
January 2018:
* SAND Lab Welcomes PROPS Scholars Julia Reitsma and Casandra Gomez Alvarado
December 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Receives Joint UC Consortium Seed Grant with Dr. Camelia Hostinar of UC Davis
September 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded American Psychological Foundation Visionary Fund Grant
June 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Receives Faculty Career Development Award
May 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded Faculty Research Grant
* João Awarded Dr. Ursula Mandel Scholarship
April 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Awarded Grant from the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
February 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Speaks at the UCLA School of Education
January 2017:
* Dr. Silvers Selected as 2016 APS ‘Rising Star’
* SAND Lab Welcomes PROPS Scholar Wendy Gonzalez
September 2016:
* João Receives 2016 APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship
May 2016:
* João Receives 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 2016:
* The 10th Annual (and My First) Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society