Previous MBB Graduate Student Awards
FALL 2023
Syed Rakin Ahmed (Biophysics, MGH)
Generating Clinically Actional AI Models for Brain Metastases Radiogenomics
Daniel Barabasi (Biophysics, GSAS)
Biophilia: A sci-art exhibit on biological and artificial assembly
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Public Policy, HKS)
Sticky Stereotypes: Biased Belief-Updating and Observability
Hande Sevgi (Linguistics, GSAS)
Encoding Path and Manner in Space
SPRING 2023
Grace Finley (Public Policy, HKS)
Group Engagement’s Role in the Efficacy of Group Trauma Interventions
Ankana Saha (Linguistics, GSAS)
2023 Linguistics Society of America Institute
Emma Smith (Public Policy, Econ, HKS)
Refugee Labor Response to Return Expectation Shocks
FALL 2022
Sachet Bangia (HKS)
Air Purifiers and Worker Productivity, Health, and Cognition
Daria Bikina (Linguistics, GSAS)
Processing interpretable and uninterpretable agreement features in Russian: an experimental study
Blake Bordelon (SEAS)
Neuro-Theory Journal Club
Gabriella Fleischman (HKS)
Removal and Reclamation: Evidence from US Landmark Names
Shelby Hanna (Philosophy, GSAS) and Xavier Roberts-Gaal (Psychology, GSAS)
Compositionality in cognition reading group – the language of thought and its discontents
Avinash Moorthy (HKS)
Pilot Study of the Happiness Curriculum
Hayley Ross (Linguistics, GSAS)
Pronoun reference in crossover sentences
Jeffrey Yang (Economics, GSAS)
Noisy Cognition and the Decision Relevance of Subjective Beliefs
Tian Zeng (Human Evolutionary Biology, GSAS)
ANANSI: A Global Database of Folklore for Analyses of Psychological Variation and Universals in Narrative and Character Representation
SPRING 2022
Michael Eber (Health Policy, GSAS)
Cognitive Noise in Stated Preference Valuation
Peter Hickman (Economics, GSAS)
Paternalism and Aid Among the Poor: Evidence from Kenya
Ankana Saha (Linguistics, GSAS)
North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI)
Audrey Scagnelli (Public Administration, HKS)
Nonpharmacological Interventions for Dementia Care: The Impact of Sensory Stimulation Therapy on Dementia Patients and Caregivers
Yiou Wang (Architecture, HGSD)
Inverse Incarnation: Metempsychosis with Mouse Motion Capture on Human Avatars
FALL 2021
Phoebe Cai (Economics, GSAS)
Memory and Political Polarization
Alice Heath (Public Policy, HKS) and Kelsey Pukelis (Public Policy, GSAS)
Stigma and the take-up of targeted benefits
Lucy Lai (Psychology, GSAS)
Policy compression in ADHD
Bo Liu (Psychology, GSAS)
One nose but two nostrils: how to align cortical odor representations on two sides of the brain
Emma Rackstraw (Public Policy, HKS)
Inaccurate Beliefs & Bias-Motivated Updating
Ke Wang (HKS)
Positive emotions and ethical decision-making: The case of gratitude and bending the rules
SPRING 2021
Jenna Anders (Economics, GSAS)
Economic Conditions and Welfare Stigma
Arielle Bernhardt and Dev Patel (Economics, GSAS)
Beliefs and Adaptation to Climate Change
Shannon Bryant (Linguistics, GSAS)
Event Conceptualization and Coreference
Amar Sarkar (Human Evolutionary Biology, GSAS)
Folk Evolution and Folk Genetics: A Survey-Based Psychology Toward Intuitions and Misconceptions about Evolutionary Biology
FALL 2020
Ariella Kristal (Organizational Behavior, HBS)
The Dark Side of Willpower: How and Why Lay Beliefs About Self-Control Shape Goal Achievement
Ayushi Narayan and Rodriguez-Padilla (Economics, GSAS)
Identity and Positional Preferences
Dev Patel and John Conlon (Economics, GSAS)
Stereotypes, Demand for Information, and College Major Choice
Ethan Wilcox (Linguistics, GSAS)
Reading Group
SPRING 2020
Ghazal Jessani (Human Development, GSE)
Lyrical Music and Vocabulary
Interview
Malinda McPherson (Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, HMS)
Cross-Cultural Auditory Study
Interview
Steven Meisler (Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology (SHBT), HMS)
Music, Reading, and Language at the NeuroMusic VII Conference
Interview
Graham Noblit (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Evolution of Ostracism
Arunima Sarin (Psychology, FAS)
Computational Social Cognition Group
Marius Vollberg (Psychology, FAS)
The Neural Basis of the Interplay Between Episodic Simulation and Emotion
Emily Walco (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Core Knowledge and Exploration in Bonobos
Anthony Yacovone (Psychology, FAS)
Investigating Linguistic Prediction in ASL
Interview
FALL 2019
Dana Boebinger (Medical Sciences, FAS)
Musae on the Brain at ARO Conference
Interview
Peter Hickman and Brandon Tan (Economics, FAS)
Motivated Laziness: A Theory and Experiment
Ivan Kroupin (Psychology, FAS)
Interdisciplinary Lab Transfer and Cross-Cultural Fieldwork Experience
Leyla Tarhan (Psychology, FAS)
The Effects of Socio-Economic Status on the Development of the Visual System
Interview
Ethan Wilcox (Linguistics, FAS)
Climate Change & Linguistics Workshop
SPRING 2019
Riley Carney (Government, FAS)
Reconsidering the Urban-Rural Divide: An Experimental Investigation into Political Orientation, Density, and Residential Selection
Joseph Coffey (Psychology, FAS)
PsychEd
Ze Hong (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Folk Epistemology and the Cultural Variation of Information Generating Methods
Saadia Sediqzadah (Health Policy and Management, HSPH
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Antipsychotic Treatment of Schizophrenia
Mattie Toma (Economics, FAS)
Does Selfless Reflection Lead to Selfless Behavior? Evidence from an Online Experiment
Ethan Wilcox (Linguistics, GSAS)
Presentation at "Blackbox NLP" at EMNLP 2018
FALL 2018
Dániel Barabási (Biophysics, FAS)
CoSyNe Conference
Nina Begus (Comparative Literature, FAS)
Medical Procedures and Diagnoses Associated with Human Enhancement and Creation: A Literary Perspective
Interview
Ben Bellet (Psychology, FAS)
Prevalence-Induced Concept Change in Human Judgment of Traumatic Events
Interview
Kevin Carney (Public Policy, HKS)
Time Preference and Demand for HIV Testing
Payton Jones (Psychology, FAS)
International Conference for Psychological Science
Interview
Laura Lewis (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Ingroup-Outgroup Discrimination and Long-Term Recognition of Past Groupmates in Bonobos and Chimpanzees
Interview
Joshua Martin (Linguistics, FAS)
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Jayden Maya (MCB, FAS)
CoSyNe Conference
JohnMark Taylor (Psychology, FAS)
Using fMRI to Examine Orientation Representation in a Neuropsychological Case Study
Chris Umphres (Judgment and Decision Making, HKS))
Sunk costs in Social Contexts
SPRING 2018
Colin Conwell (Psychology, FAS)
Eyes to the Horizon
Scott Delaney (Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH)
Family Function and the Brain
Ivan Kroupin (Psychology, FAS)
Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
Sibylla Leon Guerrero (Education, GSE)
Dynamic Neural States of Emerging Bilinguals in Learning and Rest
Javier Masis (Molecules, Cells and Organisms, FAS)
Diversity and Plasticity of Visual Processing Centers in the Jumping Spider
Laura Mesite (Human Development and Education, HGSE)
Neural Correlates of Speech Perception and Reading Processes in English Learners
Chanmo Park (Psychology, FAS)
A Mind/Body Unity Test for Diabetes: Suggesting A Psychological Treatment
Ethan Wilcox (Linguistics, FAS)
Can Neural Nets Learn Linguistic Dependencies?
Anna Yermakova (History of Science, FAS)
Open Forum towards PN15: Ephemera, Entropy, Infinity -- An Interdisciplinary Collaboration
FALL 2017
Jack Cao (Psychology, FAS)
The Tension Between Accuracy and Fairness
Christopher Michael Celaya (Government, FAS)
The Efficacy of Deliberative Democracy
Maya Mathur (BioStatistics, HSPH)
Psychological Mechanisms of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ Phenomenon in Human-Robot Interaction
James Reisinger (Public Policy, HKS)
An Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Atheist Messaging on Pro-Social Behavior
Kate Vredenburgh (Philosophy, FAS)
Cross-Disciplinary Research on Choice
Jayden Robert Ziegler (Psychology, FAS)
Studying Linguistic Development in Children Using EEG
SPRING 2017
Matt Lester Baum (Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology & Neuroscience, HMS)
Neuroethics Conference
Rosie Caitlin Bettle (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Can Chimpanzees Use Human-Like Mentalising Skills to Enable Successful Cooperation
Ishita Dasgupta (Physics, FAS)
Cross-Disciplinary Experiences: Resource Rationality in Human Probabilistic Inference
Meirav Furth (Harvard Law School)
Unenforceable Terms in Consumer Contracts
Bernd Huber (Computer Science, FAS)
Parent Child Interaction Therapy Support
Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson (Psychology, FAS)
The Biology behind Social Dominance Orientation
Heidi Liu (Public Policy, HLS)
Bringing Support to Survivors’
Justin Warren Martin (Psychology, FAS)
Boston Area Moral Cognition Group
Maya Mathur (BioStatistics, HSPH)
APS Conference
Dakota McCoy (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Game Theory, Thermoregulation, and the Evolution of Cooperation
Sana Rafiq (Economics/Public Policy, HKS)
Behavior Exchange 2017
Tyler Wooldridge (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
Using Reverse Genomics to Study the Evolution of Mammalian Behaviors
FALL 2016
Gasper Begus (Linguistics, FAS)
Influences of Transmission and Learnability on Human Speech
Siobhan Greatorex-Voith (Sociology, FAS)
Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences Conference
Joshua Jeong (Global Health and Population, HSPH)
Understanding the Role of Fathers in Their Young Children’s Care, Health, and Development: A Qualitative Study
Jennifer Kotler (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Mother/Offspring Conflict in Humans
Thomas Pouncy (Psychology, FAS)
RLDM Conference
SPRING 2016
Matt Lester Baum (Harvard-MIT Health Science & Technology & Neuroscience, HMS)
Neuroethics of Biomarkers
Jelena Borise (Linguistics, FAS)
Investigating the Interaction of Syntax and Prosody in Georgian
Scott Delaney (Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH)
Early-life Social Determinants of Amygdala Connectivity in the Generation R Study: Lab Visit for Training in Neuroimaging Data Collection and Processing
Charles Adam Dorison (Public Policy, HKS)
Emotion and Intertemporal Choice
Adrian Jinich (Systems Biology)
Increasing the Dimensionality of Color Space
Flora Jun Lin Or (Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH)
Difficulty of "Now": Behavioral Consequences of Depression
Pooja Paul (Linguistics, FAS)
What Do numbers Mean, Exactly?
Rachel Rene Romeo (Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Division of Medical Sciences)
Family Home Audio Recordings
Michelle Ashley Seliger-Schamberg (Education)
Martinos Center Freesurfer Workshop
Manasi Sharma (Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH)
A Mixed-Methods, Cross-Cultural, Social-Ecological Study of Individual, Family, and Community Risk and Protective Factors Mediating the Association Between Traumatic War Events and Mental Health Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Regions of Liberia and South Sudan
Manvir Singh (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
The Social and Cognitive Foundations of Group-Functional Religion
Elaine Fruehauf Stranahan (Linguistics, FAS)
Effects of Working Memory Load and Speaker-Specific Knowledge on Semantic and Pragmatic Processing
Alexandra Urban (Mind, Brain, and Education, GSE)
Ideas in Education Festival
Jennifer Zuk (Public Policy, HKS)
Evaluating the Associations Between Music and Speech Production in Children with Musical Training and Speech Delays
FALL 2015
Dakota McCoy (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS)
23rd International Conference on Comparative Cognition
Justin Martin (Psychology, FAS)
Boston Area Moral Cognition Group
Samuel Ronfard (Human Development and Education, GSE)
Between East and West: Preschooler’s Search for Corroborative Evidence in Belarus
Manvir Singh (Evolutionary Biology, FAS) and Samuel Mehr (Psychology, FAS)
The Natural History of Song
2015
Samura Atallah (Public Policy, HKS)
The Motivational Tax Across Economic and Educational Domains When Women Feel Helpless in One Domain
Gasper Begus (Linguistics, FAS)
Linguistic Summer Institute 2015, University of Chicago: The Evolution of Language from Ecological Perspective by Prof. Salikoko Mufwene
Tina Chou (Psychology, FAS)
Neuromodulation of Mind-Wandering Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Yujing Huang (Linguistics, GSAS)
Testing Unaccusative Hypothesis Online: A Visual World Paradigm Study
Nam Wook Kim (Computer Science, SEAS)
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2015)
Benedek Kurdi (Psychology, GSAS)
New approaches to studying the acquisition of implicit attitudes (Jan De Houwer at Ghent University)
Justin Martin (Psycholoogy, GSAS)
Boston Area Moral Cognition Group
Alexander Prescott-Couch (Philosophy, GSAS)
Analyzing Social Wrongs
Morgan Shields (Social and Behavioral Sciences, HSPH)
Evaluating the interplay among organizational factors, staff-patient relationships, and patient satisfaction within acute psychiatric care wards: A mixed-methods approach.