💙🧡 Welcome! We are an infant devleopment research project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 🧡💙
04/13/2026
Our team had lots of fun at this past weekend at Beckman Institute at Illinois!
Visitors stopped by our booth to try out challenging puzzles or live infant behavioral coding, as well as learn more about our ongoing LittleBeats projects! 🧩🧑💻🔍
03/09/2026
Our Baby Cues Project team had a wonderful time at this year's Read Across America- Champaign Urbana Celebration event! 📖⭐️📚 We had lots of fun with families making their own animal crafts and sharing about our ongoing projects! 💙💙
Thank you to Katie Bickers and Urbana Park District for organizing and having us!
02/16/2026
This Valentine’s Day, we had a LOVE-ly time at the Healthy Families Fair! We hope everyone had a great weekend celebrating with their loved ones! 💝💐
Thank you to Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice for hosting this wonderful event! 🩷
12/10/2025
Yesterday, our team delivered a small gift to each of our home visitor partners with the Champaign County Home Visiting Consortium. ❤💚🎁 We wish them all a holiday season full of joy and laughter! ☃
11/25/2025
We hope everyone has a wonderful fall break and Thanksgiving week! 🦃🍂🥧
We are beyond grateful for our hard-working research team, dedicated collaborators, and of course, our community of enthusiastic families! 🧡🧡
11/17/2025
💜 Thank you to all of the families who have participated in our studies throughout the years! 💜
Our amazing research team recently presented their latest work at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference! 🤩 Our contributions could not have been made without your help!
Click this link to read more on our lab website: https://publish.illinois.edu/socialdevlab/2025/11/17/international-society-for-developmental-psychobiology-conference/
11/14/2025
Get excited… Our first batch of Baby Books are being compiled and sent out! Here's an exclusive sneak peek at some of the pages that will be included in your Baby Book!
💜 Cover page with your baby's name
🧡 Pictures of you and your baby from your lab visit
🧠 Your baby's developmental milestones
🏠 Data from your home recordings
Do you want a personalized Baby Book for your little one? Interested in participating in the LittleBeats Baby Cues Project? Click the link to learn more! https://littlebeats.hdfs.illinois.edu/get-involved/
08/26/2025
Meet Annick, a data manager on the LittleBeats research team!
08/20/2025
Meet Clara, another new member of our LittleBeats research team!
08/18/2025
Meet Lizeth, a new member of our LittleBeats research team!
08/12/2025
Our team celebrating the end of a wonderful summer! Here's to another successful and inspiring semester ahead!
08/06/2025
Join us in giving a warm welcome to our newest LittleBeats team members: Beverly Bolster, Clara Yen, and Lizeth Sepulveda, Project Coordinators.
We're also excited to welcome Hannah Apsley, joining us as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
We bid a fond farewell to Bethany Lee, Project Coordinator, as she embarks on her next adventure in graduate school. Best of luck, Bethany—you’ll be missed!
You can learn more about our team here:
https://publish.illinois.edu/socialdevlab/people/