Two accomplishments today – first, this morning, Nora successfully defended her Master’s thesis. Then Jennifer gave her final brownbag presentation of grad school.   Congratulations to both!

This is Jennifer during her talk.  I forgot to bring my phone to take a picture of Nora!  You both did a great job.  We’re very proud!

Jennifer and Tom both presented posters this weekend’s at the SAS (Society for Affective Science) conference, held this year in Chicago.  Nora also had a poster accepted to SAS, but she had to withdraw due to family obligations.  Craig and I had to miss SAS due to our trip to San Francisco, but we heard great things.

This is SAS’s 3rd annual conference, so they’re still a bit new, but it seems like they’re here to stay!  Craig and I still love ISRE, but it’s good to see a new emotion-related society, and SAS has a solid focus on cutting-edge science.  Plus it meets every year, and at least so far is meeting in the US each time, which means it’s easier to get to than ISRE which often meets in Europe.

Sounds like the posters were very well-received, and they got to meet some of our academic relatives and colleagues.  Even better, the conference helped pushed Tom to make the decision to stay here for his Ph.D., so for that we’re grateful to all who stopped by to chat with him!

Looks like the 2017 SAS will be in Boston – looking forward to it!

Yeah, the ASCE lab is entering the blogosphere.  This will mainly be Leslie and Craig’s musings on the current state of research on emotions/stress/coping, but we’ll also have other lab members discuss current research as well.

We have some random posts from a previous era that we’ll be migrating to here, so you’ll eventually see “older” posts than this, but this message is our official kickoff.  Yay us!

Former student Liz Spitzer just accepted an offer for Clinical Psych in the Ph.D. program at Auburn.  Way to go, Liz!  She’ll be joining former labmate Lindsey Kramer there.

(Liz at SPSP 2013 in New Orleans)

Our four Class of 2014 seniors (Abby Carr, Kellie Kuzmuk, Grace Monterubio and Sloane Sparks) all have now successfully defended their senior honors theses.  Congratulations to all four, they did a really great job!

Kellie will be continuing with us as a Master’s student next year;  Abby is off to … ;  Grace is attending … ; and Sloane will be enrolling in Vanderbilt’s Nurse Practitioner program beginning later this summer.