Second year graduate student Rosha Feizi Lighvan successfully defended her master’s thesis with no revisions this week! Yay Rosha!
Research Assistant Jade Segura absolutely crushed her Honors Thesis! Congrats Jade!
Graduate students Maegan Nation and Rosha Feizi received scholarship awards from GPSA for Best Poster Presentation and Best Podium Talk in their sessions, respectively, at the 2026 Annual GPSA Conference. Amazing work you two!
RA Priscila Krauss was awarded the Best Poster Presentation in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at the 2026 OUR conference. We are so proud of the hard work you put it, Priscila!
RAs Justin Mykovich, Jade Segura, and Priscila Krauss presented their work at the 2026 OUR conference. Nice job!
Hoor was awarded the 2026 PEO International Peace Scholarship. Great work, Hoor!
Dr. Christensen Pacella was awarded the 2026 UNLV Jason Geddes Rising Researcher Award. This award is presented to only three early career UNLV faculty each year.
Our third year graduate student Hoor Ul Ain was awarded the President’s UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Amazing work, Hoor!
Our first graduate student in the lab, Shannon Sagert, has matched into her internship site at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California! Congrats, Shannon, we are all so proud of you!
Jade Segura was awarded the Daron and Jennie Dorsey Honors College Scholarship! Congrats, Jade!
Melanie Garcia will be joining the Health Equity Analytics Lab (HEALab) at University of Arizona as a full-time research assistant in August!
Our amazing lab manager Jaelin Isquith has accepted a full-time position with the EAT Lab at University of Louisville. We are excited for this next stage of her training!
Melanie Garcia successfully defended her honors thesis on immigration legal status as a risk factor for eating disorders among Latinx immigrant students. Congrats!
Isabella Aceituno was named an Outstanding Graduate at this year’s commencement ceremony. We will miss Isabella as she heads on to graduate school at University of Washington!
Darin Beasley-Williams, Melanie Garcia, Jessica Nguyen, and Melanie Garcia presented their work at the OUR Research Symposium.
Shannon Sagert successfully defended her honors thesis on weight stigma and medical care avoidance!
Dr. Christensen Pacella was recently awarded the APS Rising Star Award and the Psychology Department Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award.
Rosha Feizilighvan was awarded an Academy for Eating Disorders Student Travel Scholarship to attend this year’s International Conference on Eating Disorders.
Hoor Ul Ain successfully defended her Master’s Thesis, “Binge Eating Behaviors in Muslim Women During Ramadan Fasting” in April 2025!!! We are so proud of your achievement!
Melanie Garcia has won the 2025 Psychology Outstanding Senior Award.
Congratulations Isabella Aceituno, who has accepted an offer from the University of Washington School of Public Health to earn her MPH!
RA Darin Beasley-Williams has been accepted to the McNair Scholars program and McNair AANAPISI Summer Research Institute
Hoor Ul Ain is a star! She was just awarded the 2024 APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship ($1,000).
Hoor Ul Ain won the P.E.O. International Peace Fellowship ($10,000).
Isabella Aceituno will be funded to work with CREST this summer through the 2024 AANAPISI STEM and McNair Summer Research Institute.
Congratulations to Hoor Ul Ain on winning the Psychology Department DEI Service Award.
Melanie Garcia has won the 2024 Psychology Junior of the Year Award, the Spring 2024 OUR Research Symposium First Place Lightning Talk, and the OUMP Mentee Award. Wow!
Isabella Aceituno won first place at the Spring 2024 OUR Research Symposium Poster Competition for her work with Dr. Erin Hannon’s lab.
CREST is excited to welcome new incoming graduate student Rosha Feizi.
Melanie Garcia has received the 2024 INBRE UROP award to conduct research full-time with CREST this summer.
Congratulations Maegan Nation for winning the 2024 GSPA poster award.
Congratulations Melanie Garcia on her acceptance to the UNLV Honors College. Melanie will be completing her honors thesis with CREST in 2024.
Congratulations Maegan Nation for winning the 2023 ABCT Eating Disorders and Eating Behaviors Special Interest Group Graduate Student Research Award.
