╴ Create campus outreach activities aimed at reducing stigmas surrounding mental health issues╴ Lead educational programs on university’s mental health resources╴ Serve as a Mental Health First Aid Responder

╴ Teach Introductory Psychology laboratory sections╴ Hold office hours╴ Grade weekly lab reports

╴ Conduct independent honors thesis investigating whether the Age-Related Positivity Effect in memory emerges at encoding or retrieval of words╴ Track gaze patterns using the Eyelink 1000 Plus to measure attentional preferences for different emotionally-valenced words presented as triplets╴ Measure valence biases in recognition memory as well as free-recall order and ability╴ Examine the mediating effects of dispositional traits: positive affect and cognitive reappraisalFunded by the John Neasmith Dickinson Memorial Research Award in Psychology ($1,500) and University of Richmond School of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant ($500).

╴ Review relevant current literature on age-related memory deficits, compensation strategies, and emotion regulation╴ Test younger and older adult participants using computerized memory tests, self-report questionnaires, and story recall tasks╴ Collect and analyze data using SPSS and design a poster presentation

╴Created, conducted, and analyzed independent research investigating the influence of theAge-Related Positivity Effect on paired-associate memory╴Funded by the University of Richmond Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellowship ($4,000)╴Presented research at the 2018 Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta, Georgia

Researching and conducting a systematic review on active couple interventions for patients suffering from chronic pain under Dr. Shannon Smith of the University of Rochester Medical Center's Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine.