News

Rodney joins the lab as the new lab manager!

Dr. Liberman has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. A CAREER award provides funding for early-career faculty to advance scientific research and education.

Play an online research game with your child to help us learn about development.

Noa started a position in the lab as a Junior Specialist!

Dr. Liberman and Dr. Emily Jacobs have been named 2019 Hellman Fellows. The Hellman Fellows Fund provides support to promising junior faculty in the earliest stages of their academic career and supports emerging leaders.

Nico presented research on the development of empathy at the URCA poster session!

We are interested in conversations between parents, children, and staff, and how they impact engagement in a rocket building activity!

Maya presented work on children's understanding of contamination at the URCA poster session!

Zoe Liberman was named a Rising Star Award by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). This award is presented to psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their post-Ph.D. career and recognizes innovation and future potential.

We joined the Santa Barbara library for their summer reading kick-off fair! We got to interact with parents and tell them about participating in science while doing a fun interactive project with kids. Everyone loved our slime-making science project. You can make slime yourself at home--just follow Elmer's Colored Recipe.