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Job opening: joint developmental – comparative psychology lab coordinator position

Along with Dr. Felix Warneken at the Social Minds Lab, we are accepting applications for a joint full-time research technician to coordinate and conduct research on cognition in children, adults, and nonhuman primates (75% Social Minds Lab, 25% Cognitive Evolution Group). This position provides extensive research experience and is ideal for recent college graduates who are considering attending graduate school in the future.

  • Read more about the position and application materials and process here.
  • Find the online application portal here.
  • Applications will start being reviewed on a rolling basis on May 5.

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Congrats to Isabelle!

Congrats to Isabelle for winning the Weinberg Cognitive Science Symposium best poster award, and for being selected as a W. B. Pillsbury Prize recipient, for her undergraduate thesis project on the evolution of possession in monkeys!

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Congrats to lab alumni Margaret, Yiyun, Natalia, Nami, and Ari on new positions!

Lab postdoctoral alum Margaret Bryer recently started a new position as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin. Grad student alum Yiyun Huang started a new mentoring and coordination position at UMich LSA Connect. Lab coordinator alum Natalia Camargo Peña started a posiiton as a PhD student in Anthropology at Stony Brook University. Undergrad alum Nami Kaneko started as a lab manager in the Desrochers Lab at Brown University. Undergrad alum Ariana Mistry recently accepted a position as a lab manager at the APE Lab at Emory University. Congrats all on the new positions!

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Lab members present at the AABAs

Margaret and Averill presented some of our group’s work on chimpanzee cognition and behavior at the 2023 American Association of Biological Anthropologists conference, and celebrated with our collaborators from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project!

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