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BaBL Lab News
NOVEMBER 2025
Louisa presented her research at the Better Together event
NOVEMBER 2025
Anson presented her research at the Better Together event
OCTOBER 2025
Isabella presented her summer research at the SACNAS conference and won an Outstanding Research Presentation award – congratulations Isabella!
OCTOBER 2025
Daisy joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
OCTOBER 2025
Liliana joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2025
David joined the BaBL Lab as a high school intern – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2025
Vrishaan joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2025
Emma joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2025
Anson joined the BaBL Lab as a graduate student – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2025
Louisa presented her research at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
JULY 2025
Isabella presented her research at the Fall Research Festival
JULY 2025
The BaBL Lab celebrated the end of the summer with pizza and games – congratulations Isabella for completing her summer research experience with the BaBL Lab and for being the big game winner!
JULY 2025
Joanna joined the BaBL Lab as a Lab Manager – welcome to the team!
MAY 2025
Teagan and Isabella, through the REU program, joined the BaBL Lab for the summer – welcome to the team!
MAY 2025
Pedro joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
MAY 2025
Dr. Yamasaki presented her research at the Bilingualism Mind Brain talk series!
Dr. Yamasaki presented her research at the Bilingualism Mind Brain talk series!
MAY 2025
Val and Isaiah received their medals at the Emory Undergraduate Honors Ceremony – congratulations!
APRIL 2025
Val was honored with the Leadership and Service in Linguistics award at the Linguistics Awards Banquet – congratulations Val!
APRIL 2025
Isaiah was honored with the Excellence in Spanish Studies award at the Emory College Language Center Awards Ceremony – congratulations Isaiah!
APRIL 2025
Congratulations to the BaBL Lab graduating seniors and staff members moving on to new adventures – Aurora, Gloria, Isaiah, Jackie, John, Josh, Milkyas, Sewon, and Val!
APRIL 2025
The BaBL Lab celebrated the end of the semester at 2929 Korean BBQ
APRIL 2025
Jackie presented at the Diversifying Scholarship Research Conference
APRIL 2025
Milkyas completed his Senior Capstone Internship with the BaBL Lab and is now off to the University of Southern California – congratulations Milkyas!
APRIL 2025
Isaiah and Val presented at the sixth annual Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
APRIL 2025
Val was selected to received the Charles Elias Shepard Scholarship – congratulations Val!
APRIL 2025
Louisa presented her research at the Departmental Research Seminar
APRIL 2025
Val officially accepted her offer to attend Graduate School in Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh – congratulations!
APRIL 2025
Gloria officially accepted her offer to attend Graduate School in Psychology at Rutgers University – congratulations!
APRIL 2025
Isaiah successfully defended her honors thesis and earned Highest Honors – congratulations Isaiah!
MARCH 2025
Sewon officially accepted her offer to attend Dental School at the University of Washington – congratulations!
Sewon officially accepted her offer to attend Dental School at the University of Washington – congratulations!
MARCH 2025
Aurora and Isaiah were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society – congratulations!
MARCH 2025
Val successfully defended her honors thesis and earned Highest Honors – congratulations Val!
MARCH 2025
Cassidy was selected for a summer internship at the Child Mind Institute– congratulations Cassidy!
FEBRUARY 2025
The BaBL Lab ran our first little scientist!
DECEMBER 2024
Cassidy presented her research at the Fall Research Festival
DECEMBER 2024
Jimena presented her research at the Fall Research Festival
DECEMBER 2024
The BaBL Lab celebrated the end of the semester by painting pottery at All Fired Up
NOVEMBER 2024
Drs. Yamasaki, Cohen, and Hitchcock had a blast at Psi Chi’s Pizza with a Professor event
NOVEMBER 2024
John presented his research with the LUMeN Lab at the Better Together event
SEPTEMBER 2024
Josh joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2024
Jimena joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2024
Matthew joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2024
Milkyas joined the BaBL Lab as a high school intern – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2024
Louisa joined the BaBL Lab as a graduate student – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2024
Isaiah joined the BaBL Lab as an honors student – welcome to the team!
JULY 2024
MaKayla presented her poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Symposium
JULY 2024
Sofia presented her poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Symposium
JULY 2024
Sofia and MaKayla completed their summer research experience with the BaBL Lab!
JUNE 2024
Dr. Yamasaki was highlighted in the Puyallup School District’s newsletter for her outreach in the schools
MAY 2024
BaBLer’s Alex, Lily, and Jenna and LUMeNary Brooke received their medals at the Emory Undergraduate Honors Ceremony – congratulations!
MAY 2024
Jenna was honored as a Woodruff Scholar at the Senior Scholars Brunch – congratulations Jenna!
APRIL 2024
Aurora and Jenna presented their research at the Spring Research Festival
APRIL 2024
Congratulations to the BaBL Lab graduating seniors – Alex, Lily, Nicole, Jenna, and Abby!
APRIL 2024
The BaBL Lab celebrated the end of the semester at D92 Korean BBQ
APRIL 2024
Abby completed her Senior Capstone Internship with the BaBL Lab and is now off to Georgia College – congratulations Abby!
APRIL 2024
Alex was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society – congratulations Alex!
APRIL 2024
Jenna successfully defended her honors thesis and earned Highest Honors – congratulations Jenna!
APRIL 2024
Lily successfully defended her honors thesis and earned Highest Honors – congratulations Lily!
MARCH 2024
Alex successfully defended his honors thesis and earned Highest Honors – congratulations Alex!
MARCH 2024
Alex was selected for the Sally Provence Fellowship in Clinical Research at the Marcus Autism Center, he will be starting later this summer – congratulations Alex!
MARCH 2024
Nicole was selected to participate in NIH’s Postbac Intramural Research Program, she will be starting later this summer – congratulations Nicole!
FEBRUARY 2024
The BaBL Lab ran our first participant!
FEBRUARY 2024
Jenna was selected to be a member of the 100 Senior Honorary – congratulations Jenna!
JANUARY 2024
Cassidy joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
DECEMBER 2023
The BaBL and LUMeN Labs celebrated the end of the semester at Puttshack Minigolf
DECEMBER 2023
Val presented her research at the Fall Research Festival
NOVEMBER 2023
Val presented her research at the 4th University of North Georgia Linguistics Symposium
NOVEMBER 2023
Dr. Yamasaki presented her research at the University of Washington’s Cognition and Perception Seminar
OCTOBER 2023
The BaBL and Translational Labs explored all things Fall at Southern Belle Farms
SEPTEMBER 2023
Dr. Yamasaki was interviewed by the Amira Learning Podcast – listen here
SEPTEMBER 2023
Gloria joined the BaBL Lab as a postbac research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2023
Abby joined the BaBL Lab as a high school intern – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Jenna joined the BaBL Lab as an honors student – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Aurora joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Nicole joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Sewon joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Jackie joined the BaBL Lab as a Lab Manager – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2023
Val presented her research at the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Symposium at Emory
JULY 2023
Dr. Yamasaki presented her research at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Annual Conference in Port Douglas, Australia
MAY 2023
John joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
MAY 2023
Val was selected for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at Emory – congratulations Val!
MAY 2023
Alex was selected for a summer internship at UW through their Apex Summer Camp program – congratulations Alex!
MAY 2023
Lily was selected for a summer internship at UC Berkeley – congratulations Lily!
MAY 2023
Dr. Yamasaki was interviewed by The Synapse podcast for their series “Every Kind of Mind” – listen here
APRIL 2023
The BaBL and LUMeN Labs came together to celebrate one year at Emory at our end-of-the-semester celebration
MARCH 2023
Dr. Yamasaki spoke as an invited panelist on “The Neuroscience of Language and Literacy” at The Reading League’s inaugural Annual Summit in Las Vegas, NV
DECEMBER 2022
The BaBL and LUMeN Labs joined forces to escape King Tut’s Tomb at our end-of-the-semester celebration
DECEMBER 2022
Lily and Alex presented their research at the Fall Research Festival – Lily and her group won 2nd place at the event!
OCTOBER 2022
The BaBL Lab dressed up as the four seasons for our joint Halloween lab meeting with the LUMeN Lab
OCTOBER 2022
Alex joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
SEPTEMBER 2022
Lily joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
AUGUST 2022
Valeria joined the BaBL Lab as an undergraduate research assistant – welcome to the team!
JULY 2022
Dr. Yamasaki spoke as an invited panelist on “Promoting Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” at the virtual Society of Text and Discourse Annual Conference
JUNE 2022
Dr. Yamasaki presented her research at an invited talk at The Dyslexia Foundation’s Extraordinary Brain Symposium in Bermuda
MARCH 2022
Dr. Yamasaki officially joined Emory University!
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