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Meet a Summer Research Fellow: Taylor West

July 10, 2023

Taylor West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As she continues working on her dissertation that focuses on positive interactions between strangers, West has received the Laura Mayer Summer Research Fellowship.

Meet a Summer Research Fellow: John West 

June 22, 2022

John West is a Ph.D. candidate within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As he works to complete his dissertation — research that focuses on emotional granularity in individuals and how it shapes our memory — he has been awarded the Drs. Thomas and Sharon Watkins Summer Research Fellowship.

Brain-body breakthrough

March 21, 2022

Keely Muscatell is one of just a few scholars conducting research within this realm and is working closely with two Ph.D. students to uncover the short- and long-term effects of one particularly ugly social experience: racial discrimination.