UGA Infant Research Lab

Time to highlight our last graduating senior! Even though Julianna was a later add to the Infant Lab, she has been a wonderful team member! Congratulations Julianna! We are so proud of you!

Happy graduation day to all! We only have a couple more seniors to highlight, but we are so excited to congratulate Anna Grace! Thank you Anna Grace for all of your amazing contributions to the lab! We are so proud of you! 🥳❤️

We are so excited to celebrate Maggie Bell! Maggie has been a light in the Infant Lab for the last two years! We will miss you so much, Maggie. Congratulations, Maggie!! 💐💕

So excited to highlight our next graduating senior Anna Vanags! Anna, we are so proud of you and excited for your next journey in graduate school at Mercer! Congratulations Anna! We will miss you!

Congratulations to our Infant Lab Spring 2026 graduates! We are really going to miss these amazing seniors, who are off to grad school , a post-bac research job, and pre-med preparation! We also were missing two students who are currently on study abroad in Oxford. This group has had local and national research presentations and has won several awards. So proud of these hard-working and impressive Psych majors. ❤️🖤

Big congrats to Infant Lab junior Vivian Austin for winning the 2026 David R Shaffer Undergraduate Research Award! Shown here with her graduate student mentor Kate Lindig. Vivian also has funding from a Spark PURSA award and from Curo for her longitudinal study on sleep, emotion regulation, and caregiver well being. We are so proud of you Vivian!

Another successful CURO for these Infant Lab students! Congratulations to seniors Anna Grace Trammell, Sofia Ferrucci, Anna Vanags, Julianna Dooley, Maggie Bell, and junior Vivian Austin for all of their hard work!

Congrats to all of our Infant Lab students who presented research posters and oral presentations at this spring’s Psi Chi Convention, held last week! The Infant Lab was well represented, with posters by undergraduates Maggie Bell, Julianna Dooley, Vivian Austin, Sofia Ferrucci, Anna Vanags, and Anna Grace Trammell, all of whom were expertly mentored by graduate students Kate Lindig, Meg Fyan, and Addison Montroy. And an extra special congrats to Sofia, who was awarded the best poster prize! Great work, everyone!

Happy holidays from the Infant Lab crew! We had our end of semester holiday party earlier this month, enjoying some good food, celebrating lots of research accomplishments over the past year, showing our crafty side making ornaments, and celebrating Jean’s graduation 🥳 . So proud of these students!

Are you or your partner currently pregnant?
We’re inviting expecting parents to join a research study by the University of Georgia on caregiver emotion regulation and your future child’s sleep quality.

You’ll complete a series of three surveys—one during pregnancy, one when your child is 4 months old, and one when your child is 8 months old.
You can earn up to $9 total for a short phone call and about 45 minutes of survey time, with compensation provided after each survey.

This study has been approved by UGA’s Institutional Review Board (IRB).
To learn more or begin participation, visit our website and schedule a quick call on the homepage: https://familywellbeingstudy.my.canva.site