Celebrations & Scrapbook

Welcome to the STAR Lab’s celebrations page! This is a place to notice what is easily missed.

In academia, it is tempting to measure only the big outcomes. The publication. The grant. The acceptance. But most of life is not lived there. It is lived in the middle of an ordinary week when someone finally gets a model to converge, or sends the first draft they were afraid to send, or asks a question out loud even if it feels like a moment of vulnerability.

Here we honor those moments. A simple practice in awareness. A reminder that growth and meaning accumulate and that showing up matters. Life is short. We are allowed to celebrate along the way, not only when we reach the finish line.

And, of course, we also want to preserve these moments! Our scrapbook is a place to remember what we shared together.

• Xinyin Zhang and Zoe Zollinger graduated with their bachelor's degrees and joined the STAR Lab (lab twins! ✨)

• Shira Godin and Kendall Pade's abstracts were accepted for presentation to the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)

• Kendall Pade accepted an offer of admission to the Developmental Psychology M.A. Program at Columbia University

• Shaina received an honor from the @ladiesofalpha in recognition of her commitment to the campus community

• Kendall Pade became a Barr Fellow in Public Speaking and presented her undergraduate honors thesis at the William & Mary Spring Honors Research Symposium

• Shira Godin's abstract for her first-year project was accepted for presentation to the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA)

• Shira Godin presented her first-year project at the William & Mary Graduate Research Symposium

• Shira Godin and Kendall Pade joined the STAR Lab as founding members 🌟

• Shaina joined the Department of Psychological Sciences at William & Mary and created the STAR Lab