Alumni

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Mansi Kabre – Undergrad Research Assistant

Mansi graduated in May 2025 with a dual bachelors degree in Psychology and Human Development and Family Sciences. While in the lab, Mansi’s interest included marriage and family therapy. Mansi is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Southern Connecticut State University.

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Isabella Rubin – Undergrad Research Assistant

Isabella graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Reproduction and Youth Health. While in the lab, Isabella’s interest included maternal mortality due to substance abuse, mental health and neurodevelopment. Isabella is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health, with a concentration in Global Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Moeen Khawaja – Undergrad Research Assistant

Moeen graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, Moeens’s interests included childhood adversity and resilience along with social cognition, empathy, and mental health

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Eunice Kim – Undergrad Research Assistant

Eunice graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences and a minor in Asian American Studies. While in the lab, Eunice’s interests included developmental and clinical psychology, specifically exploring social and cultural influences on mental health.

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Kaden Scopelliti – Undergrad Research Assistant

Kaden graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Psychology and a minor in Biological Sciences. While in the lab, Kaden’s interests included developmental and social psychology surrounding mental health

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Nuha Meelar – Undergrad Research Assistant

Nuha graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Molecular and Cellular biology. While in the lab, Nuha’s interests included physiological and neurological approaches to how major events in life can impact an individual mentally and physically

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Sophia Amaral – Undergrad Research Assistant

Sophia graduated in May 2025 with a bachelors degree in Psychology with a minor in Human Development and Family Sciences.. While in the lab, Sophias’s interests included childhood development and how certain experiences impact an individual over the course of their life.

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Ellie Domian – Undergrad Research Assistant

Ellie graduated in Fall 2024 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences and Economics. While in the lab. Ellie’s interests included the impact of adverse childhood experiences on development through adolescence and adulthood.

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Alexis Lacross – Undergrad Research Assistant

Alexis graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, Alexis’s interests included child development, particularly in the face of trauma and adversity, and contributed the majority of her time in the lab coding certain projects in R as well as researching various topics.

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Amrita Sapkota – Undergrad Research Assistant

Amrita graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, Amrita’s interests included the impacts of early life experiences on development across the lifespan. Amrita is currently completing a master’s at UConn’s School of Social Work.

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Dana Parrott – Undergrad Research Assistant

Dana graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors degree in Psychological Sciences and had been working with Dr. Miller as a research assistant since January 2023. She plans on receiving a masters in clinical mental health counseling and later hopes to obtain a PhD in psychology. While in the lab, Dana’s research interests included understanding empathy, resilience, how trauma affects us as well as studying how we find our life purpose.

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Keri Pietro – Undergrad Research Assistant

Keri graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors in Psychological Sciences and minor in Business Fundamentals.

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Amanda Conrod – Undergrad Research Assistant

Amanda graduated in May 2024 with a double major in Allied Health Sciences and Speech Language & Hearing Sciences. Amanda plans to pursue a graduate degree in the field of Speech Language Pathology and hopes to work with children in a clinical setting.

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Andrew Guerra – Undergrad Research Assistant

Andrew is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut majoring in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, his interests included exploring developmental psychology.

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Isha Mehta – Undergrad Research Assistant

Isha graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors in Allied Health Sciences and minor in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, Isha’s interests included adverse childhood experiences and how that impacts a child’s development. Isha plans to apply to dental school.

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Megan Ciraco – Undergrad Research Assistant

Megan graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors in Psychological Sciences and a double minor in Neuroscience and Human Development and Family Sciences. While in the lab, her interets included exploring the effects of early childhood relationships and experiences on social and emotional development.

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Valerie Gomez – Undergrad Research Assistant

Valerie graduated in May 2024 with a bachelors in Psychological Sciences.

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Kendall Yang – Undergrad Research Assistant

Kendal graduated in Fall 2023 with a bachelors in Psychological Sciences. While in the lab, Kendall’s interests included the impact of family and schooling on children’s development and mental health. She is currently pursuing a Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness master’s degree at NYU.