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August 2025. Welcome new graduate student Yijie Huang (lower right, enjoying a post all-day data collection training session dinner). We’re glad you’re here!
November 2025. Congratulations to Brenna Arledge, who passed her comprehensive exams and is now on to her dissertation! Woohoo!
November 2025. Grad students Brenna, Dana, Eunsung, and Farima all had a great time presenting their posters (and visiting the local cat cafe) at Society for Neuroscience 2025 in San Diego!
December 2025. Congrats to Rachana, who won our lab-themed gingerbread house making contest with very fancy brain wreaths. She wins the KO mouse stuffie with auditory sensitivities and festive ear defenders (because we love assistive tech in our lab!) Honorable mention goes to multiple ICA-themed houses, one that matched Dr. Ethridge’s tiger sweater, and one with social mice in a sniff train 🙂
February 2026. Congratulations to grad student Dana Mahmoud, who was awarded a student research grant from the So Quiet Foundation to fund her dissertation research on wearable technology in misophonia!
March 2026. Congratulations to grad student Brenna Arledge for receiving a DFCAS Research Fellowship to fund her dissertation research on psychomtetric scale development for assessing adverse childhood experiences!
May 2026. Congratulations to Dana Mahmoud, who successfully passed her comprehensive exams today! Onward and upward to the dissertation!
July 2026. Congratulations to Eunsung Lee, who successfully defended her Master’s thesis, titled “Developmental trajectories of neural oscillatory activity and their relationship to language outcomes in young children with fragile x syndrome”!
July 2026. Just one week after defending her master’s thesis, Eunsung Lee gave a great talk about her project at the International Conference for the National Fragile X Foundation. Nice work, Eunsung!
July 2026. The NFXF Conference was a great time to catch up with former PhD student Lisa De Stefano and Jordan Norris, both successful scientists in the Fragile X research community.