!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Baby Cognitive and Development Lab - People in the lab

Shannon Egna


Shannon is currently at Sage Graduate School working towards her masters in childhood education and literacy development. She worked in the Brain, Cognition, and Development Lab from Spring 2008 to Spring 2010 and participated in the UMass Junior Fellows Program during her senior year. She was awarded an Ansin Study Abroad Scholarship for Summer 2009 with which she was able to travel to Denmark and take classes in both psychology and education.


Alexandra Monesson


Lexi graduated with her MA in Psychology in 2009. Her Master's thesis examined the other-race effect and the development of perceptual narrowing.


Joanne Philips


Joanne is currently in the Peace Corps and will be applying to medical school. She enjoys reading poetry, jogging, traveling, and learning about new cultures.


Amanda Lennox


Mandy is a senior undergraduate Psychology major in Commonwealth Honors College with a concentration in Pre-Medical studies. She began her work in the Brain, Cognition, and Development lab in the Spring of 2007. This past summer, she received the Alan L. and Carol S. LeBovidge Undergraduate Research Scholarship to begin work on her honors thesis. In the future, Mandy plans to apply to medical school and to travel the world.


Jennifer Villemaire

Psychology Major, Pre-Medical and Neuroscience Concentration
E-mail: jvillema@student.umass.edu

Jennifer Villemaire was a research assistant in the BCD Lab from January 2006 until May 2009. During the summer of 2008, Jennifer was awarded an internship by the Baystate-UMass Collaborative Biomedical Research Program which allowed her to begin her honors thesis earlier. Jennifer completed an independent honors thesis project which investigated the influence of emotion and race information on the development of face processing. She graduated with high honors from the university with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience. Jennifer is currently working for the Edinburg Center in Bedford, Massachusetts as a residential counselor in a group home for females with mental illnesses. In the future, she plans on pursuing a graduate degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology.

Maggie Gaughran

Psychology, Neuroscience Concentration

2008 Graduate, interested in going to medical school in the future.

Jessica Buchinski

Psychology, Neuroscience Concentration

2008 Graduate, now in graduate school for physical therapy at UVM.

Jess Buchinski graduated from UMASS in 2008 with a BS in Psychology. She worked in the BCD Lab from January 2007 to May 2008. Currently she is a graduate student at the University of Vermont studying to be a doctor of physical therapy. At UVM she works with Dr. Jesse Jacobs in the Human Motion Analysis Lab. The lab studies balance in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. She lives in Burlington with her boyfriend Sean and dog Harper.

Tara Frady

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Currently working at the Neville Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon. Planning to enter a clinical neuropsychology PhD program in 2010.

Lori Ashworth

Psychology, Neuroscience Concentration

2007 Graduate, interested in going to medical school in the future.

Nicole DeMartinis

Psychology, Neuroscience Concentration

2007 Graduate, interested in going to graduate school in clinical or counseling psychology.

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