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BEST Lab Doctoral Student Alex Nikolaidis Konstas Completes First-Year Project

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Alex Nikolaidis Konstas, a doctoral student in the BEST Lab, who recently completed his first-year project! Alex’s project—titled “Integrating Agent-Based Modeling into Stigma Research: The Promise of Complex Systems Approaches”...

BEST Lab Doctoral Student Nathan Hollinsaid Receives Psychology Mentoring Award

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Nathan Hollinsaid—a doctoral student in the BEST Lab—who was one of the inaugural recipients of the Department of Psychology’s Student Mentoring Award. The award was established to honor graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, like...

BEST Lab Rising Senior Jae Ji Awarded a $1,500 Research Grant from Open Gate

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Jae Ji—a rising senior and thesis student in the BEST Lab—who was awarded $1,500 in research funding from the Open Gate Foundation! The Open Gate Foundation was established in 1987 by members of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus to...

BEST Lab Graduate Student Rachel Martino Is Officially a Doctoral Candidate

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Rachel Martino—officially a doctoral candidate in the BEST Lab—who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus earlier this year and recently completed her clinical case presentation! The prospectus defense and clinical case...

BEST Lab Undergraduates Receive Summer Research Funding

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Selen Divanlioglu, Jae Ji, Sophia LeBlanc, and Suin Lee—undergraduates in the BEST Lab—who received funding from the Harvard College Research Program to pursue independent research projects this summer! Selen, a rising senior in the lab...

BEST Lab Graduate Student Jesus De Luna Completes Second-Year Project

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Jesus De Luna, a Stone PhD Scholar and graduate student in the BEST Lab! Jesus successfully completed his second-year project, which was titled ‘Malefactors’ Over Time: Collective Representations of the Rich and the Poor in the United...

BEST Lab Rising Juniors Awarded the Detur Book Prize

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Emma Lenoël Quang and Suin Lee, rising juniors in BEST Lab! Emma and Suin were awarded the Detur Book Prize and presented with books of their choice embossed with the Harvard and Detur seals. The Detur Book Prize is one of the oldest...

BEST Lab Undergraduate Charlotte Paley Receives Allport Prize

June 01, 2026

Congratulations to Charlotte Paley, a graduating senior in the BEST Lab! Charlotte received the Gordon W. Allport Prize for her senior honors thesis—How Weight-Based Discrimination “Gets Under the Skin”: Testing a Biopsychosocial Mediation Framework in a...

BEST Lab Jesus has been awarded the Murray Fund to support his research on affirming the dignity of labor!

February 13, 2025

Jesus has been awarded the Murray Fund to support his research on affirming the dignity of labor! This competitive departmental grant, available to psychology faculty and researchers, is one of several restricted funds that the Department of Psychology...

BEST Lab Jesus De Luna has been selected as a 2025 Stone PhD Scholar!

August 01, 2025

The Stone Program, funded by James M. and Cathleen D. Stone, cultivates the next generation of scholars dedicated to understanding and addressing economic inequality and social policy. It provides vital graduate training and promotes interdisciplinary...

BEST Lab Undergraduate Kayla Saucedo Receives the Gordon Allport Prize!

May 13, 2025

Congratulations to Kayla Saucedo, an undergraduate in the BEST Lab, who received the Gordon W. Allport Prize for her senior honors thesis entitled “Measuring Structural Xenophobia and Latinophobia and Testing Their Associations with Potentially Traumatic...

BEST Lab undergraduate Sarah Borges receives fellowship as Governor William Shirley Harvard-Cambridge Scholar!

February 12, 2025

Congratulations to undergraduate Sarah Borges who receives fellowship as Governor William Shirley Harvard-Cambridge Scholar! For over 100 years, the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships have provided graduating seniors with the opportunity to spend a year at...