CABI labbers Sadie (undergraduate research and STAR student) and Cara (PhD student) headed out to Seattle for the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. They co-presented a poster and took advantage of several excellent professional development workshops. Great work!

CABI lab members once again volunteered for the twice-annual Make a Difference Day! This year, we were in Bronzeville raking leaves for a community older adult. We're always happy to help!

The Student Gerontology Association (SGA) in partnership with the Helen Bader Applied Gerontology program and UWM's LGBTQ+ Resource Center hosted an event this week in honor of LGBTQ+ elders in the Milwaukee community. CABI lab members Cara Charles, Sadie Rockette, and Kana Kimura all serve in leadership positions in SGA and helped organize the event. It was a smashing success! A panel of Black LGBTQ+ individuals from Milwaukee shared their thoughts about how their different identities have impacted their experience here and how things have changed over the years. For more information, check out the House of History, which is working to document Black LGBTQ+ history in Milwaukee. Thanks to SGA for putting this fantastic event together! 

The CABI lab made the quick jaunt over to Chicago to present at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. We presented two posters (links below), attended many scientific and professional development sessions, and continued our tradition of having dinner with the Long Term Memory Lab (...and failed to get a picture). Thanks everyone who stopped by to chat about our work!

The CABI lab is hoping to recruit a new PhD student to start in Fall 2025. A new student should have interests in the areas of human memory and aging. Competitive applicants will have experience with human subjects research in cognitive psychology or a related field. Programming experience is a plus, ideally in R and/or Python. Apply here.

If you're applying to graduate school but the CABI lab doesn't seem like a good fit, check out some of our colleagues in the Neuroscience area. The vibes in the area are great!

There is also a virtual information session for prospective applicants to hear about UWM's graduate programs. Psychology applicants who attend will have their application fee waived! Cait will be there representing neuroscience, so come say hi!

We are happy to announce that Cait has been elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society, a professional society devoted to the study of memory. She is honored to be chosen by such an accomplished group of scientists and can't wait to start attending their annual meetings!

It was a great year for the CABI lab at the UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium! Four members of our team presented (Wade Allen, Sadie Rockette, Jess Kania, and Calysta Hawkins-Luken) and did a FANTASTIC JOB!! Jess Kania was also awarded one of the Outstanding Presentation Awards...for the second year in a row! Congrats Jess! As if that weren't enough, Cait Bowman was also nominated for Research Mentor of the Year and Kana Kimura was nominated for Graduate Student Research Mentor of the Year. 

We're so proud of all the hard work our team members put in and happy that it can be recognized at a great event with many other outstanding undergraduate researchers!

The CABI lab once again participated in UW-Milwaukee's Make a Difference Day! We went to three homes in the Milwaukee community to help older individuals with spring cleaning in their yards. It was great to be away from our computers, working outside, and meeting some of our wonderful neighbors!

CABI lab graduate students, Kana Kimura and Yuju Hong, attended the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Toronto, CA. They presented posters on the effects of prior knowledge on neural memory representations of scenes, and they met up with trainees from the Brain and Memory Lab and Mrinmayi Kulnari - a UW-Milwaukee alum who now works with Dr. Rosanna Olsen in Toronto. Exciting to share our work and hear what's going on in the field!