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That’s a wrap!📣 The spring semester has come to an end, and the MOSAIC Lab is immensely proud of our students’ dedication to research this year! 👏

Our senior RA, Miranda, finished her last poster presentation at the Psychology Senior Honors and Capstone Poster Fair! Thank you to her mentor, Bill, for guiding her along this year-long journey! 🎉

To top it off, we had a fun outing at Jupiter’s to celebrate our hard work with some pizza and a game of pool! 🍕🎱

The semester may be coming to an end, but the research never stops! Here are our amazing RAs presenting their work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium 👏

✨A recap of the MOSAIC Lab at MPA! Our amazing students did a wonderful job on their presentations!👏

📣 The MOSAIC Lab will be presenting at MPA 2026 in Chicago! The annual convention will be held from April 16th-19th. Be sure to check out everyone’s hard work!

Congratulations to our PhD student, Sarah, for receiving funding from the Psychology Department to go towards her conference travel expenses 🎉👏

A fun mid-semester lab outing at Mia Za’s! 🍕🍝

Congratulations to our undergraduate RA, Bryana, for receiving the Laura Bolton Research Development Scholarship! 👏🎉

This award provides financial support for undergraduate students engaging in Psychology research over the summer!

Check out this news article on our latest published paper!

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-demographic-undermine-latino-americans.html?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQYKRxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEezdHkHKjPkvc088cc3eYJAXBF-MAlmmXen2eIRyU87GRCSTB7c1X60qn5koE_aem__xNFFCVNXBh2HaEn0xANIw

Demographic forms can undermine a sense of belonging in Latino Americans The way Latino Americans' identity is represented on demographic forms can undermine their fundamental sense of belonging in the U.S., says new research. Across four experiments that surveyed more than 1,300 Latino participants before and after the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the study con...

SPSP Day 2-3: Teresa presented her poster on “The Discriminatory Experiences of Transgender Women of Color vs Other Multiple Marginalized Women”, and Sarah presented her poster on “The Embodied Consequences of Identity Denial.”

Another great year at SPSP!

MOSAIC lab rocking the SPSP preconference! Sarah presented on the generalizability of minimal groups and Sherlock showcased her racialized emojis project!