The CABI lab will be accepting applications for UWM's Neuroscience PhD program. We are not guaranteed to take a new student this year, but we will review applications. If you are interested in working with us, you can contact Cait directly. There will also be a virtual information session on October 16 covering the graduate programs in Psychological and Brain Sciences overall. We look forward to hearing from you!

A new article was recently published from our lab in the journal Psychology and Aging. The article details a study led by PhD student Cara Charles where we tested how well young and older adults made inferences across memories with overlapping elements - like realizes that two people who you see with the same dog on separate occasions probably share a relationship with one another. We found that both young and older adults were able to make these inference but that older adults did not perform as well as young adults did. We also found some evidence that older adults were more likely than young adults to make inferences by integrating across the memories, losing some of their unique details as a result. You can find the full text of the article here.

Congrats to Cara on her first publication! She will be following up on this work for her dissertation project, looking to find strategies that may improve inference in older adults.

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!