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.

• Eloise Carter joined the STAR Lab ⭐

• Xinyin Zhang and Zoe Zollinger each had their abstract accepted for presentation at ABCT's Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG

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

• Shira Godin and Kendall Pade each had their abstract accepted for presentation at ABCT

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

• Kendall Pade won the Larry Ventis Award for Excellence in Psychology Research from William & Mary

• 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 was accepted for presentation at 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