2025

2/20: Congratulations to Maggie Welte for receiving UD’s Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Award!!

2/8: Four of our lab members are presenting at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention!!

2024

10/24: Congratulations to Sam Venezia for giving a talk at the Society for Psychophysiological Research

9/24: Congratulations to Andrea Wilhelm for for defending her Master’s Thesis!

8/14: Richa Gautam and Andrea Wilhelm presented MINERVA Research Initiative funded work at the 2024 Trust and Influence Program Review for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

8/8: Congratulations to Blake Tran and Francesca Tero for presenting their summer research projects at UD’s Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity!

8/2: Congratulations to Maggie Welte for passing her comprehensive exams!

7/23: Congratulations to Richa Gautam for passing her comprehensive exams!

7/2: Congratulations to Giuditta Scalco for defending her Master’s Thesis

5/17: Blake Tran and Lia Schnatz presented posters at the PBS Undergraduate Psychology Poster Day organized by Jas Cloutier

5/13: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the International Graduate School of Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

5/9: Jeni Kubota joins the Editorial Board of Psychological Science

5/1: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the National Children's Hospital in Washington DC for the Center for Neuroscience Research

4/22: Congratulations to Megan Colins for defending her Master’s Thesis!

4/15: Congratulations to Giuditta Scalco and Andrea Wilhelm, who each won a best poster award from the UD Innovate Research Showcase 

4/11: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

4/9: Congratulations to Shaina Rosenblum for defending her Master’s Thesis!

3/19: Congratulations to Maggie Welte for defending her Master’s Thesis!

2/13: IFSN lab is excited to welcome Marissa Spears as an incoming graduate student for Fall 24

2/8: Five of our team members are presenting at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention

2/9: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the SPSP Social Cognition Preconference

2/9: Congratulations to Sam Venezia for passing his comprehensive exams!

2/6: Giuditta Scalco won runner-up in the SPSP Graduate Student Poster Awards!

1/31: IFSN lab is excited to welcome Melda Sandikci as an incoming graduate student for Fall 24

1/8: Andréa Reynolds joins as the new IFSN lab manager

1/1: Jasmin Cloutier joins the Editorial Board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

2023

10/23: Maggie Welte received an SPSP Graduate Registration Stipend

8/22: Jeni Kubota was on the PsychSessions Podcast discussing how to create better classroom conversations

7/17: Jeni Kubota was elected Chair of a Committee for the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

7/11: Congratulations to Grace Handley for defending her dissertation! Grace has also accepted a research position at AnLar!

7/10: Jeni Kubota accepted a position as the a Director of Professional Development for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UD

6/24: Grace Handley and Jeni Kubota will give talks at SPSSI during a symposium!

6/20: Jeni Kubota joins the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports

6/1: Jasmin Cloutier, Jeni Kubota, and Richa Gautam awarded a grant from the Department of Defense under its Minerva Research Initiative!

5/6: Andrea Wilhelm was awarded a spot in Dr. Steve Luck’s and Dr. Emily Kappenman’s ERP Boot Camp: A competitive 10-day camp focused on the fundamentals of ERP research

4/27: Richa Gautam presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Convention on her work on human-AI social cognition and decision-making and Jeni Kubota gave a talk

2/23: Nine of our team members are presenting at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention!

2/21: Sam Venezia wins UD’s Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence

1/12: Andrea Wilhelm received a travel grant from Psi Chi

1/05: Sam Venezia and Richa Gautam defended their masters

2022

11/29: Jeni Kubota was elected to the Governing Board of the SPARK Society

11/10: Jeni Kubota was elected to the Governing Board of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society as a Director-At-Large

10/15: Jas Cloutier and Jeni Kubota gave talks at SESP

10/8: Congratulations to Richa Gautam and Grace Handley for their SPSP travel awards to attend SPSP in Atlanta in 2023

9/1: IFSN Lab welcomes 3 new graduate students: Giuditta Scalco, Samwell Cleary, and Maggie Welte

7/29: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at CogSci as part of the SPARK sponsored symposium

7/1: Congratulations to Denise Barth for defending her dissertation!

7/1: Congratulations to Jeni Kubota for getting tenure

6/15: Jeni Kubota named Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

6/14: Congratulations to Tzipporah Dang for defending her dissertation!

6/1: Stacy Mahiga has been selected as a McNair Scholar!

5/29: Richa Gautam presented a poster at APS and Jeni Kubota gave a talk

5/19: Jeni Kubota featured in the APS Observer

4/15: Congratulations to Jeni Kubota who was awarded a Senior Ford Fellowship

4/22: Stacy Mahiga and Sara Rocchino have been selected as UD Summer Scholars

 4/22: Congratulations to Richa Gautam who got an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP

3/22: Samwell Cleary wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Neuroscience Research Award!

2/22: Shaina Rosenblum wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Plasket Award!

2/22: Congratulations to Shaina Rosenblum and Melissa Kilmer for their their graduate school acceptances!

2/22: IFSN lab is excited to welcome 3 incoming graduate students for Fall 22, Margaret Welte, Samwell Cleary, and Giuditta Scalco

2/22: Five of our team members presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention!

2/22: Congratulations to Jasmin Cloutier, Josh Correll, Paul Quinn, and Grace Handley for their NSF grant!

1/22: Congratulations to Tianyi Li for her Assistant Professor position at Hong Kong University!

2021

12/21: Congratulations to Veronika Lerche for her Assistant Professor position at University of Kiel!

10/21: Jeni Kubota inducted as an honorary member of Nu Rho Psi

10/21: Jeni Kubota chaired the scientific organizing committee for a New York Academy of Sciences’ conference

10/21: Jeni Kubota gives a talk at the Harvard Women in Psychology's Annual Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS)

10/21: Samwell Cleary presents poster at the Harvard Women in Psychology's Annual Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS)

9/21: Congratulations to Jasmin Cloutier for getting tenure

7/21 Denise Barth gave a conference talk at Networks 2021

5/21: Jeni Kubota’s talk at the at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

5/21: Jeni Kubota interviewed for The Brains & Behavior Program. Panelist interview here

4/21: Jeni Kubota interviewed about her research and science path for The Neuroethics Blog

4/21: Gabriella Dagher wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Neuroscience Research Award!

4/21: Samwell Cleary awarded a UD summer scholars fellowship!

4/21: Tzipporah Dang awarded the College of Arts and Sciences’ Graduate Student Professional Development Grant!

4/21: Article about Jeni Kubota’s talk at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from the PBS department

3/21: Jeni Kubota gives a talk at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Science, Technology, and Law

2/21: IFSN lab is excited to welcome 2 incoming graduate students for Fall 21, Megan Collins (masters) and Inshil Paik (PhD)!

2/21: Tzipporah Dang wins the UD Dissertation Fellowship Award!

2/21: Welcome Eric Splan as a new postdoctoral fellow to the IFSN lab!

2/21: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Improving longitudinal coadaptation of multi-human/multi-agent teams in response to internal and external signals!

2020

12/20: Gabriella Dagher wins the University of Delaware Harward Munson Fellowship!

9/20: Richa Gautam gets an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP!

9/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a second grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Trust network emergence amongst resource-constrained human-agent teams!

9/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Computational HAT model of status sensitivity to facilitate team trust and performance under suboptimal conditions!

3/20: Richa Gautam is awarded a Unidel Distinguished Graduate Scholars Award!

3/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program to investigate human and AI teaming!

2/20: Jeni Kubota gives a Keynote at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference