Renata Curcio
Class of 2024, Psychology Major (Clinical/Counseling), Criminology Minor, Deaf Studies Minor
Semesters in Lab: Fall 2022
Congratulations to Renata for graduating a semester early this past December (2023)! During her time at TCNJ, Renata participated as a member of both Club Swim and Theta Phi Alpha. She will be earning her Master’s in Forensic Mental Health Counseling starting Spring 2025. Renata will be taking the spring off to travel Southeast Asia and volunteer on an elephant and wildlife rescue sanctuary. After that, she will spend a year working. Congrats, Renata!!
Abby Oliver
Class of 2024, Psychology Major (Clinical/Counseling)
Semesters in Lab: 2022-Fall 2023
Abby will be graduating this year, after which she’ll be earning her Master’s! In the meantime, she’s a member of Psi Chi, the Outreach Chair for Alpha Phi Omega, and the President of both the Healing Arts Club and Enigma (the game club).
Olivia Ortelli
Class of 2021, Psychology Major (Biopsychology) and Statistics Minor
Semesters in Lab: 2019 – 2021
Olivia is currently a Neuroscience Ph.D. student at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Olivia’s research focuses on the relationship between early life stress and alcohol use disorder with an emphasis on examining sex differences. She serves as a Section Editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Science and Medicine, Co-Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Student Advisory Committee, and Executive Committee Member of her department’s outreach organization, Brain Awareness Council. Olivia was awarded a spot on her department’s T32 training grant upon joining the program and has been selected as a finalist for a doctoral student small grant through the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA)!
Isabel Rodriguez
Class of 2021, Psychology & Public Health Double Major
Semesters in Lab: 2019-2021
Raj Toor
Class of 2021, Psychology Major (Biopsychology) and Social Justice Minor
Raj Toor is currently a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. Recently, she presented her research at the Academic Surgical Congress and received NIH funding to perform summer research!
Elijah Buckwalter
Class of 2021, Psychology Major (Clinical/Counseling)
Amanda Russo
Class of 2021, Psychology Major (Clinical Counseling) and Criminology Minor
Amanda Russo is currently a Psy.D student at La Salle University
Anna Gelson
Class of 2021, Psychology Major (Clinical/Counseling) and Music Minor
Semesters in Lab: 2019-2021
Annalise Wilner
Class of 2021, Psychology Major and Marketing Minor
Semesters in Lab: 2020 – 2021
Annalise Wilner is currently a Social Work graduate student at Montclair State University
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Meagan McDowell
Class of 2020, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: 2019-2020
Meagan is currently applying for her Master’s!
Shirley Wang
Class of 2017, Psychology Major and Statistics Minor
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017
Shirley Wang is currently a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Science program at Harvard University under the mentorship of Dr. Jill Hooley and funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Shirley’s research examines cognitive and affective processes involved in the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders, self-injury, and suicidal behaviors, as well as the overlap and distinction between direct and indirect forms of self-injury. She has an additional strong interest in statistical methods of classification. She has published 42 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters, given >50 conference presentations, and received >$300,000 in research funding to date (including both an NSF GRFP and NIMH F31 award). She has also received several research and mentorship awards from ABCT, SSCP, SRP, and APA. For more details please see Shirley’s website and CV!
Cristina Nardini
Class of 2018, Psychology Major (Biopsychology)
Semesters in Lab: Fall 2017
Cristina is currently completing an internship in New York!
Emma Young
Class of 2018, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017 – Spring 2018
During her senior year, Emma served as the Lab Manager. Emma graduated with a B.A. in psychology and completed her senior honors thesis on the relationship between avoidant coping and emotional reactivity. Currently, she is a social worker student at Columbia University. Emma hopes to continue working with children affected by mental health challenges in the future.
Kelly Bobchin
Class of 2018, Psychology Major and Mathematics Minor
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017 – Spring 2018
During her senior year, Kelly served as the lab Project Manager. She is currently working to gain research experience. Afterwards, she plans on attending graduate school for a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Savanna Cartagena
Class of 2019, Psychology Major (Clinical/Counseling)
Semesters in Lab: Spring & Fall 2017
Savanna is currently pursuing her doctorate in Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA.
Anthony Devito
Class of 2018, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Anthony completed his Master’s degree in Computer Science and is currently working as a software engineer! Anthony is also the author of an IEEE research publication.
Stephany Rumrill
Class of 2018, Early Childhood Education and Psychology Double Major
Semesters in Lab: Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Steffi completed her Master’s degree in Education in 2021 and is currently teaching third grade Special Education in Lawrenceville, NJ!
Shreya Vodapalli
Class of 2019, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017 – Spring 2018
Shreya expects to graduate in May 2023 from Rutgers University with her MS in Rehabilitation Counseling under the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Track! Shreya contributed to the published paper, “White matter in prolonged glucocorticoid response to psychological stress in schizophrenia” (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01077-4).
Shira Pollack
Class of 2019, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017 – Spring 2018, and Spring 2019.
Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University at Buffalo. In graduate school, Shira is researching self-care strategies to help with various psycho-social disorders. During her senior year, Shira was the lab’s project manager.
Giulietta Flaherty
Class of 2019, Psychology Major
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2017 – Spring 2019.
During her senior year, Giuli was the lab manager. She is currently a 4th year School Psychology Psy.D student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She presented research at the National Association of School Psychologists conference, the American Psychological Association conference, and received her NJ School Psychology Certification! Recently, Giuli has returned to TCNJ as an Adjunct in the Special Education Department. Welcome back, Giuli!!
Eric Preisler
Class of 2019, Psychology Major (Cognitive Psych) and Linguistics Minor
Semesters in Lab: Spring 2019
Eric is currently a Research Assistant at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in an Autism Research lab. He plans to attend graduate school for School or Clinical Psychology after a couple of years of working.
