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Molecular Biology\|Structural Biology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Bethlehem Abebe	Graduate Student UConn Health	Structural Biology	Molecular Biology	Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Sanjucta Adak	Graduate Student, UConn Health	Genetics and Gene Expression Regulation		Genetics and Gene Expression Regulation
	Formal Mentoring	Sarah Ahmadi	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Stress and trauma, coping, and mind-body interventions.
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Sheila Alessi	Faculty, UConn Health	Clinical Psychology/Experimental Psychology - Addiction Science		behavioral science, mHealth and digital therapeutics technologies, biosensors
Cognitive Science\|Linguistics\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Shabnam Alizadeh Incheh	Graduate Student, UConn	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences		Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sentence processing, Speech perception, and Speech production.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology\|Linguistics\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Laila Almotwaly	Graduate Student, UConn	Behavioral Neuroscience		My research centers on auditory attention, neural oscillations, and the mechanisms by which neurodivergent learners engage with dynamic learning environments
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Gerry Altmann	Faculty UConn	Cognitive Science	Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology	Psycholinguistics and event representation
Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)\|Early Childhood\|Special Education	Formal Mentoring	Kate Ascetta	Faculty UConn Health UCEDD	Early Childhood and Special Education		Training and teacher preparation related to early childhood special education; working with families; supporting school leaders; social-emotional development of young children.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Clinical Psychology\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Robert Astur	Faculty, UConn	Cognitive Neuroscience		Addiction, anxiety disorders, memory
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Caitlin Baten	Graduate Student UConn	Cognitive Neuroscience	Developmental Psychology	Attention, mental illnesses like depression/anxiety, and neurodevelopment.
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring	Bob Bayo	Graduate Student Ohio University	Social Psychology		Judgement and decision-making
Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Jaime Elzabeth Blackmon	Clinical Psychologist	Clinical Psychology		Empirically-based protocols, treatments for anxiety, trauma, and validation.
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Ana Bobrycki	Graduate Student UConn	Developmental Psychology	Cognitive Neuroscience	Reading and language development
Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology\|Linguistics\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Cynthia Boo	Graduate Student UConn	Developmental Psychology	Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Social Psychology	Role of language on children's social development, social cognition, and concept development.
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Franklin Bray	Graduate Student UConn	Cognitive Psychology	Cognitive Neuroscience	Embodied Cognition, Event Cognition, Language Comprehension, Representation.
Developmental Psychology\|Human Development and Family Sciences\|Marginalized Populations\|Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring	Alaina Brenick	Faculty UConn	Developmental Psychology	Social Psychology, Human Development and Family Sciences	Discrimination, intergroup relations, social justice, marginalized populations
Clinical Psychology\|Cognitive Psychology\|Developmental Psychology\|Educational Psychology\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Nicole Burns	Staff, UConn and Central Connecticut State University	Counseling- Student Development in Higher Education		Counseling- Student Development in Higher Education
Developmental Psychology\|Social Work	Formal Mentoring	Antonia Caba	Staff UConn	Developmental Psychology	LGBTQ+ Psychology/development, Child Psychology, Social Work	LGBTQ+ mental health and identity development. I am currently involved in social work research on research and evaluation related to child care initiatives.
Educational Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Jackie Caemmerer	Faculty UConn	Educational Psychology		Psychological assessment, children's cognitive abilities, children's academic achievement, and children's social skills.
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology\|Linguistics	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Rebecca Canale	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Language processing, statistical learning, neuroimaging, and autism spectrum disorder.
Educational Psychology\|Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Jordan Cervantes	Graduate Student UConn	Educational Psychology	Social Psychology	Academic self-efficacy, self-discrepancy theory, self-determination theory, underrepresented students in higher education.
AI\|Machine Learning	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Hiral Choksi	Graduate Student UConn	Machine Learning and Ai		Speech recognition, language processing, and spoken word interpretation, especially when approached through modern deep learning and machine learning techniques. I’m also curious about how generative AI can enhance human-computer interaction in language tasks. In addition, I’m drawn to the use of remote sensing and predictive modeling for data-driven decision-making, especially in interdisciplinary contexts where language and environmental signals intersect.
Cognitive Neuroscience	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Silvia Clement-Lam	Faculty, UConn	Developmental Psychology		Reading development and disorders
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Abi Click	Graduate Student UConn	Social Psychology	Social Psychology	Perceptions of gender and sexual minorities, LGBTQ+ identity denial, essentialism and social constructionism, homophobia/heteronormality, intersection prejudice, and ableism/disability justice.
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Science	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Nicole Cruse	Faculty, Sacred Heart University	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences		TBI, aphasia, cognition, serious gaming, executive dysfunction
Cognitive Neuroscience	Formal Mentoring	Kimberly Cuevas	Faculty, UConn	Developmental Psychology		Infancy, memory, learning, executive functions, EEG
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Mandip Dahal	Graduate Student, UConn	Civil and Environmental Engineering		Civil and Environmental Engineering
Linguistics	Drop-In Mentoring	Luiza de Melo Carvalho	Graduate Student, UConn	Developmental Psychology		Psycholinguistics, Second and additional language acquisition, Reading, Early literacy, and Bilingualism.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Gayle Edelstein	Graduate Student UConn	Behavioral Neuroscience	Clinical Psychology	Pharmacology, treatment for psychiatric disorders, animal models of disorders, animal behavior, neurochemistry, behavioral pharmacology.
Clinical Psychology\|Health Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Mariel Emrich	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		PTSD, trauma, stress and coping, health psychology (e.g., pain management, sleep)
Composition	Formal Mentoring	Stephen Florian	Faculty, UConn	Business Writing and Communication		Composition and Applied Linguistics
Clinical Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Jessica Foy	Graduate Student UConn	Clinical Psychology		Childhood disruptive behavior, peer relationships, prosocial behavior.
Cognitive Science\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Adrian Garcia-Sierra	Faculty UConn	Speech and Hearing Sciences	Cognitive Science	Bilingualism, speech perception, grammar processing, language development
Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Camille Garnsey	Graduate Student UConn	Clinical Psychology		Trauma, mind-body, and lifestyle interventions
Behavioral Health\|Health Psychology\|Marginalized Populations\|Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Kamal Gautam	Graduate Student UConn	Behavioral Health	Social Psychology, HIV, Marginalized Population	Mental health and suicide prevention, especially among sexual and gender minorities. Utilizing mobile-based ecological momentary assessment to track real-time changes in mood, behavior, and suicidal ideation; EMA to understand how short-term patterns, such as stress, sleep quality, isolation, or past-day thoughts, might help us predict short-term risk and inform just-in-time adaptive interventions. I’m also interested in how ethnicity, structural stigma, substance use, and healthcare access shape mental health outcomes in low-resource settings.
Anthropology\|Ecological Psychology\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Meara Geraty	Graduate Student, UConn	Cognitive Science		Interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research, cognitive science of religion, psychology of religion, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, ecological psychology
Cell Biology\|Engineering	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Aida Ghiaei	Staff UConn	Engineering	Cell Biology	Graduate student support; is the Program Administrator of the Husky STEM Bridge to the Doctorate Program and works intimately with graduate students interested in STEM PhDs.
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Lily Gorman	Graduate Student, UConn	Human Development and Family Sciences		Adulthood, aging and gerontology; Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias; Familial caregiving; Death, dying and bereavement.
Natural Environment\|Political Science	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Frank Griggs	Faculty UConn	Political Science	Politics: Natural Environment, Maritime, Violence	Politics: Natural Environment, Maritime, Violence
Educational Psychology\|Pediatric Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Danielle Guttman-Lapin	Faculty Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, UConn Health	Pediatric Psychology	Educational Psychology, Chronic Pain	Chronic pain in pediatric patients.
Cognitive Psychology\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Marcus Harris	Graduate Student, UConn	Educational Psychology		Reproducibility, Statistics, Research Methods/Design, Measurement, Latent Variable Modeling, Evaluation.
Clinical Psychology\|Cognitive Psychology\|Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Sabrina Hosmer	Adjunct Faculty, UConn	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Clinical Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Rachna Iyer	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Mental health in underserved populations, women's health.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Clinical Psychology\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Developmental Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Arielle Keller	Faculty UConn	Cognitive Neuroscience	Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Biology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Teisha King	Faculty, UConn	Behavioral Neuroscience		Behavioral neuroscience, physiology. Currently working in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.
Developmental Psychology\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Sydney Klein	Graduate Student, UConn	Human Development and Family Sciences, Social and Developmental Psychology		Prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping, anti-racism, social media contexts, identity development, racial socialization.
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Kristen Kling	Faculty, UConn	Developmental Psychology		Gender differences in developmental psychology
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Maria Korzeniowski	Staff, University of Hartford	Business		Finance and business.
Clinical Psychology\|Cultural Psychology\|Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Justin Laplante	Faculty UConn	Developmental Psychology	Clinical Psychology, Cultural Psychology	Meditation, interpersonal relationships, and religious culture.
Cognitive Science	Formal Mentoring	Nathan Lautz	Graduate Student, UConn	Cognitive Psychology		The conceptual system; semantic memory; embodied cognition; grounded cognition; cognitive neuroscience of semantic memory; philosophy of cognitive science
Cognitive Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Hyosun Lee	Graduate Student UConn	Cognitive Psychology		Psycholinguistics, sentence processing, and cognitive modeling.
Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Martin Lee	Graduate Student, George Washington University	Clinical Psychology		Psychotherapy, therapeutic alliance, attachment
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Wesley Leong	Graduate Student, UConn	Cognitive Science
American Studies/English\|History	Formal Mentoring	Daniela Lilly Rodiles	Graduate Student UConn	History	American Studies, English	American History, American Literature, and American Studies.
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Ziqin Liu	Graduate Student, UConn	Computer Science		Computational Cognitive Science, Neuroimaging
Genomics\|Immunology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Avinash Mahajan	Graduate Student UConn Health	Genomics	Immunology
Aging\|Behavioral Neuroscience\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Science	Formal Mentoring	Etan Markus	Faculty UConn	Behavioral Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science	Brain basis of behavior, focusing on rats. Specifically: Memory formation; Aging; Hippocampal system; Navigation; Social Interactions
Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Hillary Marquis	Faculty UConn Health	Speech and Hearing Sciences		Audiology, cochlear implants
Cognitive Science\|Ecological Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Kerry Marsh	Faculty, UConn Hartford	Social Psychology		Ecological and dynamical approaches to environmental psychology; Immersive virtual reality methods (applications to interpersonal and environmental risk); Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behavior; Implicit attitudes and HIV risk behavior; Social affordances and interpersonal coordination of movement
Clinical Psychology\|Health Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Katherine McManus-Shipp	Graduate Student UConn	Clinical Psychology		Eating and weight management, health psychology, adolescent and pediatrics
Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring	Jonas Miller	Faculty UConn	Developmental Psychology		Adversity, resilience, developmental neuroscience, empathy.
Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Amanda Montanari	Graduate Student UConn	Clinical Psychology		Health psychology; weight management; health behavior change
Sport Management	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Jaime Morales	Graduate Student UConn		Educational Leadership	Sport-based youth development, Latinidad and sports, Testimonio methodology, and Latino Critical Theory.
Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology\|Social Psychology\|Social Work	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Erica Morgan	Graduate Student UConn	Social Work	Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology	I’m particularly interested in sociology, political psychology/science, and other elements of macro social work/social science. I am concentrating on policy practice, within the MSW program.
Clinical Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Zoe Nelson	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Eating disorders, psycho-oncology (intersection of mental health and cancer), OCD, perinatal mental health, behavioral medicine, health equity, severe mental illness
Clinical Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Linguistics	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Hannah O'Connor	Graduate Student UConn	Clinical Psychology	Cognitive Science, Linguistics	Autism spectrum disorder, linguistics, social communication, gesture.
Social Work	Formal Mentoring	Tochukwu Okolie	Graduate Student, UConn	Aging and Gerontology		Aging among underserved populations. Health issues (Substance use disorders, HIV) among older adults.
	Formal Mentoring	M.Samil Onder	Attorney, Istanbul Barosu	Human Resources, Empirical Legal Studies		Consumer Behavior, Strategic Marketing, Strategic Communication
Clinical Psychology\|Kinesiology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Erika Osherow	Graduate Student UConn	Kinesiology	Clinical Psychology	Stress and resilience, behavior change, holistic health and performance, trauma-informed mindfulness interventions.
Cultural Psychology\|Developmental Psychology\|Ecological Psychology\|Human Development and Family Sciences\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Darlis Pantoja-Benavides	Graduate Student UConn	Human Development and Family Science	Developmental Psychology, Ecological Psychology, Social Psychology	Identity development, parental socialization, parental ethnotheories on child/youth development, impacts of culture, and cultural adaptations of interventions. Current areas of interest include multicultural/mixed-race identity development, cultural and social identity development, ethnic-racial socialization and identity, how parental ethnotheories can inform adaptations in parent-child interventions, and impacts of cultural diversity on social identity.
Developmental Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Katie Parker	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Child psychology, childhood externalizing behaviors, intersection of clinical and developmental psychology.
Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Ecological Psychology\|Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Alexandra Paxton	Faculty UConn	Ecological Psychology	Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology	Interpersonal communication, social interaction, data science, naturally occurring data, data ethics
Chemistry\|Material Science\|Polymer Science	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Amy Pollock	Graduate Student UConn	Material Science	Material Science, Polymer Science, Chemistry	Sustainability, Plastics, Chemistry, Materials processing
	Drop-In Mentoring	Neha Praveen	Graduate Student	UConn, Animal Science
Cognitive Science	Drop-In Mentoring	Yanina Prystauka	Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Bergen	Cognitive Neuroscience		Psycholinguistics, sentence processing, bilingualism, ageing, EEG.
AI\|Higher Education	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Qazi Arka Rahman	Faculty, UConn	Literature and Digital Humanities		My research interests encompass South Asian literary studies, and the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. My work draws from decolonial and postcolonial studies, digital humanities, refugee studies, and environmental justice.
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Manasa Ramaka	Graduate Student, UConn	Business Analytics and Project Management		Consumer behavior/ Human behavior
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Nairan Ramirez-Esparza	Faculty, UConn	Social Psychology		Natural language processing, bilingualism, cognition, developmental.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Madeline Resnick	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Neuropsychological assessment and interventions for traumatic brain injury, memory, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders; multimodal neuroimaging.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Social Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Juergen Riedelsheimer	Graduate Student Idaho State University	Cognitive Neuroscience	Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology	I'm interested in the interdisciplinary domain of Music Theory, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Computer Science, Brain Computer Music Interface (BCMI), and Linguistics to understand musical knowledge and processing.
Learning Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring	Martina Rosenberg	Former Neuroscientists, Now Organizational Developer, UConn	Behavioral Neuroscience		Previously fetal alcohol induced learning challenges; now an educational developer for andragogy
Social Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Aleksandra Rusowicz	Graduate Student UConn	Social Psychology		prejudice
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Clinical Psychology\|Developmental Psychology\|Linguistics\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Formal Mentoring	Sarah Schillinger	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Social language, autism.
Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Caitlin Senni	Graduate Student UConn	Cognitive Science	Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology	Psycholinguistics—Theory of Mind, language and thought, abstraction and generalization, abstract concepts.
Clinical Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Betsy Serrano	Graduate Student University of Denver	Clinical Psychology		Trauma, gender-based violence, cultural psychology, Mexican/Latine/Indigenous communities
Health Communication	Drop-In Mentoring	Karen Shalev	Graduate Student, UConn	Communication		Patient-provider-caregiver communication, chronic illness, and women's health issues. The work is interdisciplinary and requires frequent applications from psychology and other areas.
Biomolecular Engineering\|Chemical Engineering	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Usama Sheikh	Graduate Student, UConn	Engineering
Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology	Formal Mentoring	William Snyder	Faculty, UConn	Linguistics		Language Acquisition, Comparative Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface
Developmental Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Umay Suanda	Faculty, UConn	Developmental Psychology		Language development and learning, word learning/vocabulary acquisition, conceptual development.
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Louisa Suting	Graduate Student, UConn	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences		Advancing therapeutic outcomes for individuals suffering from acquired brain injuries. Developing and implementing ecologically valid measures that assess language recovery. Exploring the potential of objective biomarkers to tailor personalized treatment plans for individuals with acquired brain injuries.
Cell Biology\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Genetics	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Breeya Tailor-Sagan	Graduate Student UConn Health	Cognitive Neuroscience	Cell Biology, Genetics
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Science\|Developmental Psychology\|Educational Psychology\|Linguistics\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Julie Van Dyke	Faculty UConn Waterbury	Cognitive Psychology	Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Linguistics, Speech, Hearing Sciences, Learning Disabilities	Psycholinguistics, reading disability, reading instruction and remediation, computational linguistics, language processing.
Center for Quantitative Medicine	Formal Mentoring	Paola Vera-Licona	Faculty	Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health		Our research group works on a variety of problems within the fields of computational systems medicine, computational systems biology, mathematical biology and bioinformatics. We focus on the design and application of mathematical algorithms for the modeling, simulation and control of biological networks such as gene regulatory networks, intracellular signaling networks and functional brain networks.
Educational Psychology\|Public Health	Formal Mentoring	Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin	Faculty, UConn	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences		The mechanisms of support for families of children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Linguistics	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Qi Wu	Graduate Student, UConn	Linguistics		Theoretical Linguistics; Literature; Classics
	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Mariah Xu	Graduate Student, UConn	Clinical Psychology		Intergenerational transmission of trauma and psychopathology; interpersonal and family violence; aggression perpetration; systemic inequity and mental health disparities
Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science	Drop-In Mentoring	Eiling Yee	Faculty UConn	Cognitive Science	Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology	Psycholinguistics, semantic memory, embodied cognition.
Cognitive Psychology\|Linguistics\|Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Holly Zaharchuk	Post Doctoral Fellow UConn	Cognitive Psychology	Linguistics, Speech, Hearing Sciences	Psycholinguistics, linguistic variation (dialect/accent), bilingualism.
Developmental Psychology	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Kristyn Zajac	Faculty, UConn Health	Clinical Psychology		Substance use disorder, mental health disorders, child psychology, adolescents and emerging adults, video game addiction, recovery support services, community-based participatory research, clinical trials
Cognitive Psychology	Formal Mentoring	Mei Zheng	Graduate Student, UConn	Educational Psychology		Creativity, motivation, and meaning.
Behavioral Neuroscience\|Cognitive Neuroscience\|Cognitive Psychology\|Cognitive Science	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Xinming Zhou	Graduate Student, University of Texas at Austin	Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences		Cognitive and neural basis of speech perception, auditory rehabilitation.
nursing	Drop-In Mentoring\|Formal Mentoring	Amy Zipf	Nursing Professional Development Specialist UConn Health	Nursing	Nursing Workforce	Nursing; Nursing workforce.