Jessica Leffers Wins Dean’s Excellence Award
On April 22nd, Jessica Leffers, 5th year graduate student in the CORE Lab, received the Dean’s Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching from the College of Science. She has excelled throughout her five years and has made valuable contributions to the Psychology...
New CORE Lab Publication: Do I Know You? The Role of Culture in Racial Essentialism and Facial Recognition Memory in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
This past February, Jessica Leffers, fifth year doctoral student in the CORE Lab, published her work in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Her work examined the role of culture in racial essentialism - the belief that members racial categories...
CORE Lab Undergraduate Shrreya Aagarwal Receives Multiple Awards!
Recently, Shrreya Aagarwal, an undergraduate Research Assistant in the CORE Lab, received two awards to fund her research curiosities. The two grants that Shrreya received are the Honors Propel Grant and the Peak Summit Award, both of which are funded through...
New CORE Lab Publication: How essentialist beliefs about national groups differ by cultural origin and study abroad experience among Chinese and American college students in Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Recently, Yian Xu, PhD, a former doctorate student in the CORE Lab and current postdoctoral researcher at New York University, Xuan Li, from NYU Shanghai, and Dr. John D Coley, the principal investigator of the CORE Lab, published a study in the Asian Journal of...
Farewell Michal
After 3 years of hard work and contributions to CORE Lab, our beloved postdoctoral researcher, Michal Fux, Ph.D., is going to move on from us after this December. Michal is incredibly valued and respected by her colleagues and the members of the lab. She has also...
New CORE Lab Publication: Development of Conceptual Flexibility in Intuitive Biology: Effects of Environment and Experience in Frontiers in Psychology
Recently, Nicole Betz, Ph.D., a former doctorate student candidate in CORE Lab and current postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, and Dr. John Coley, the principal investigator of CORE Lab published a study in Frontiers in Psychology, examining how developmental...
CORE Lab Zoom Halloween!
Since the pandemic, the act of hosting fun social events has changed but this hasn't stopped CORE Lab from celebrating the joy of holidays! In our lab meeting during Hallo-week, we encouraged our members to dress up in costumes and set up halloween-festive...
The Development Belief Network Funds CORE Lab and Collaborators
The CORE Lab, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast (QUD) and University College Dublin (UCD), has recently received funding from the Development Belief Network for a project investigating religion in Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland...
CORE Lab’s collaborative project funded by NSF, studying anthropocentric thinking and its impact on learning and teaching biology
Last month, CORE Lab, and the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL) at San Francisco State University were granted funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, on their collaborative project on...
CORE Lab Hybrid Reopening Model
In parallel to Northeastern University’s hybrid model in reopening campus, CORE Lab is simultaneously continuing its virtual working model from the summer while also reopening its physical lab space. This Fall semester, CORE Lab members are maintaining their regular...