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2025-26 Academic Year in Review

A great year behind us, and a big move ahead

  • by Kirsten CS Adam

The lab had a lot of great news this academic year! 

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Some highlights include:

  • Kirsten received an NSF CAREER award (Award #2542996, Disengaging attention from distractions)! This award will fund exciting new projects on how we disengage visuospatial attention from irrelevant distractions.
  • Lab Ph.D. student Olga Kozlova published her first first-author paper on her undergraduate thesis work (Kozlova, Adam, & Fukuda 2025 JEP:General), and successfully defended her Master's thesis! 
  • The lab welcomed our second Ph.D. student, Jin Shi. Jin joined the lab after finishing his undergraduate and Master's degrees at the Univeristy of Michigan. He successfully finished his first year project, and presented the results at the Vision Sciences Society meeting.
  • The lab had presentations at the Dallas-Austin-Area Memory Meeting in Austin, the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in Vancouver, and the Vision Sciences Society meeting in St Pete Beach
  • The lab is making an exciting move to the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain this summer!