Trisha Dehrone is a NSF GRFP Fellow at University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University – Newark, a M.S. in Social Psychology from University of Massachusetts–Amherst in 2022, and currently, she is a doctoral student in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. She became interested in improving relations between groups in tandem with advancing social justice efforts while interning in the White House's Office of Presidential Correspondence, managing casework for constituents interfacing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and
Dominic is a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at University of Massachusetts Amherst, under the mentorship of Dr. Katherine Dixon-Gordon. Prior to attending graduate school, Dom worked as the research coordinator for Dr. Tiffany Brown at University of California San Diego Eating Disorder Center for Treatment and Research. He also worked in an inpatient hospitalization program for adolescents, providing DBT services and an outpatient interventional psychiatry practice delivering rTMS, dTMS and esketamine treatments.
I study how circadian rhythms affect metabolism at the organismal and cellular level, such as how circadian desynchronization induces metabolic disruption.
Aylin is a second-year graduate student in the Developmental Science Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Spanish from Texas State University in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, Aylin worked with the Social Cognition Across Development (SCAD) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Katherine Warnell at Texas State University. During this time she analyzed the influence of the social behaviors of monolingual and bilingual kids, as well as looked at relations between theory of mind and lying across cultures. With the FAM Lab at UMass, she leads
