• Collecting data for dissertation project on parent-child dyads and mathematical language during play: involves leading research team, running participants, analyzing data, writing manuscript• Analyzed longitudinal data to better understand connections between children’s early math ability, executive functioning, and ability to detect and resolve contextual ambiguities• Helped to create and use coding scheme to quantify counting features and layouts in 120 published children’s counting books• Mentor undergraduates through the research process as they gain research experience in psychology for course credit• Present early math resources at lab meetings (including math activities created by the Development and Research in Early Math Education network) as well as lead discussions on relevant scientific articles about children’s early math

• Created and edited resources (such as learning modules or group activities) for family support professionals as they teach and discuss math with families• Wrote brief resource pages outlining connections between mathematics and executive function for parents of young children and family support professionals• Attended regular meetings to discuss field testing and feedback of resource materials

• Conducted thorough literature reviews to theoretically ground research questions• Developed novel research questions regarding how parent teaching styles affect toddlers’ learning (e.g., parent instructions, praise, proportion of parent versus child steps)• Collaborated with graduate students and undergraduates to design and implement study on toddlers’ active versus observational learning• Collected data from 53 caregiver-toddler dyads: testing children on their knowledge of novel toys following parent teaching session• Created coding scheme to quantify toddlers’ object learning and identify components of parent guidance during teaching that benefited learning• Performed preregistered data analysis in R• Wrote theoretical background, methods, and results for publication• Submitted concise conference and symposium abstracts for presentation• Presented initial findings at local conferences

• Coded naturalistic videos of infants performing actions on objects in the home environment and semi-naturalistic videos of parents teaching toddlers to use novel toys in the laboratory• Presented relevant psychology literature in laboratory meetings• Called, emailed, and scheduled families for participation in studies in a professional and friendly manner; maintained organization of scheduling system• Trained other research assistants to interact with and schedule families• Greeted families participating in laboratory studies and supervised younger siblings of participants; comfortable interacting with children of all ages (infants through school-age)

• Gained written consent from patients or family to participate in study on their hospital care• Interviewed in- and out-care patients about their quality of care and medical history• Obtained proxy interviews from power of attorneys by cross-referencing medical notes regarding patient mental state• Supervised and trained other research assistants on conducting interviews

• Maintained zebrafish research facility (feeding, cleaning tanks, monitoring individual fish health)• Performed basic organismal biology lab tasks, including creating agar media and running gel electrophoresis

Summer 2015, 2016• Conducted research on local events and pitched stories weekly to the editor-in-chief• Interviewed neighborhood residents and wrote up relevant news articles for publication• Reviewed copy layouts and copy edited other reporters' writing