March 25, 2024
The lab went to the Cognitive Development Society Conference in Pasadena, CA! Dr. Leonard gave an early career talk, Elaine gave a talk, and Reut, Brandon, Flora, and Natalie presented posters! And Brandon won a 2024 Diversity Travel Award to attend CDS. We had so much fun sharing our science!
November 13, 2023
First-year graduate student Elaine Wang won the Yale Education Studies Grant for graduate students!
Dr. Leonard won a Jacob’s seed funding grant, “Understanding motivational learning variability in online learning platforms.”
October 30, 2023
The Leonard Learning Lab had a Halloween party with games and arts and crafts!
August 21, 2023
Welcome to our new graduate students, Aarthi Popat and Elaine Wang!
July 26, 2023
Graduate students Reut Shachnai, Flora Zhang, and Mika Asaba presented at the CogSci conference! Congrats, all!
June 22, 2023
Graduate student Brandon Carrillo presented at SPP! Congratulations, Brandon!
June 15, 2023
Dr. Leonard won the National Science Foundation’s EHR Core Research Grant for the project Over-engaged Parenting and Science Achievement in Early Childhood! Congratulations!
June 7, 2023
RA and thesis student Noah Norman won the Yale Glushko Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Research in Cognitive Science! Congrats, Noah!
May 15, 2023
Graduate students Brandon Carrillo and Reut Shachnai won travel grants to attend the Computational Cognitive Models of Learning and Development workshop, hosted at Harvard!
April 14, 2023
We are so proud of our Research Assistants who won various grants and fellowships to support their summer research. Research assistant AC Christakis won the Richter Fellowship and the Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences to support their thesis research in the lab this summer! Lizbeth Lozano also won the Dean’s Research Fellowship and will officially join the lab as an RA this summer! We are also celebrating RA Zahra Yarali, who won the Thomas Barry Travel Fellowship to pursue a moral/developmental psychology research internship in Istanbul this summer!
April 7, 2023
Aarthi Popat and Elaine Wang officially accepted their offers to join our lab as PhD students! We can’t wait to welcome these extraordinary students in the fall!
February 1, 2023
Our lab submitted some excellent Cognitive Science Proceedings papers. Congrats on all your hard work, Mika, Brandon, Reut, and Flora!
November 30, 2022
Senior thesis student Noah Norman won the Mellon Forum Undergraduate Research Grant!
October 28, 2022
Dr. Leonard and Reut Shachnai both won the Yale Education Studies Grant!
September 23, 2022
A big congrats to Brandon Carrillo and Reut Shachnai for finishing their first year project talks!
July 31, 2022
L3 went to Toronto for the Cognitive Science Society Conference - big shoutout to Flora Zhang and Mika Asaba for giving some dynamite talks!
May 5, 2022
Postdoc Mika Asaba won the NSF SBE Fellowship! Congratulations, Mika!
April 15, 2022
The lab attended its first conference together at the Cognitive Development Society Conference in Madison, WI! Great job to Reut Shachnai and Mika Asaba for presenting their work and fostering generative discussions during their poster sessions, and Dr. Leonard did a wonderful job as a discussant during the symposium on “Exploring children’s early engagement and motivation in science”!
April 15, 2022
Undergraduates Lauren Okine and Jessie Cheung received the Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences AND the Richter Fellowship. Both of them will use this funding to spend the summer as research assistants in the lab! Congrats Lauren and Jessie!
March 31, 2022
Dr. Leonard won the Yale Planetary Solutions Grant in collaboration with Dr. Luke Sanford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance. They will use this grant to explore the psychological drivers of pro-climate behavior in teens.
January 25, 2022
The L3 team continues to grow; today we welcome *four* new undergraduate research assistants: Elaine Cheng, Noah Norman, Montse Rodriguez, and Zahra Yarali!
November 22, 2021
A big congratulations to Dr. Leonard, who received the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship! As a fellow, she will examine individual differences in the factors that support children’s persistence. Dr. Leonard hopes this work will inform the creation of personalized interventions to help children persist in the face of challenges and form healthy habits.
September 16, 2021
Our lab’s inaugural team is finally complete: today we are welcoming our first postdoc, Mika Asaba!
September 7, 2021
The Leonard Learning Lab welcomes Matthew Merritt and Suzanna Yang, our first undergraduate research assistants!
August 23, 2021
We are thrilled to introduce our lab’s first-ever graduate students: Reut Shachnai and Brandon Carrillo! Welcome, Reut and Brandon!
July 6, 2021
Our lab is officially live! Dr. Leonard and lab manager Melissa will spend the summer preparing the lab for our incoming grad students and postdoc, future research assistants, and of course, children and families who would like to participate in our research! Stay tuned!