News

September 2023:

*SAND Lab Newsletter: Volume 2!


May 2023:

*Dr. Adriana Mendéz Leal Successfully Defends Dissertation!

*SAND Lab RAs present at UCLA’s Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference and Undergraduate Research Week


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:

Washington Post Op-Ed: Separating children from parents at the border isn’t just cruel. It’s torture.

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