2024
December 2024
Congratulations to Anjali Augustine for being selected by the Undergraduate Research Scholar Award (URSA) program for inclusion in the URSA 2025 poster contest! Anjali’s research proposal stood out in an incredibly competitive applicant pool, earning $500 in project funding. Way to go, Anjali!
October 2024
McKenzie has been awarded the prestigious ASHFoundation Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development to support her dissertation! This highly competitive, peer-reviewed grant is awarded to only 1-4 students each year, making this an incredible achievement.
LILAC Lab Undergraduate, Molly Wallace, has been accepted to the Speech Language and Pathology fast track program. Congrats, Molly!
A huge congratulations to McKenzie for presenting her dissertation prospectus and passing it with a unanimous 4-0 committee vote! She is now officially a PhD Candidate!
September 2024
Congratulations to McKenzie Cullinan, who was awarded the CCF Robinson Student Research Award and now officially has funding for her dissertation study! Way to go, McKenzie!
Congratulations to McKenzie Cullinan, who has completed all her clinical requirements and is now officially a CCC-SLP (Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology)! We are so proud of your hard work and dedication!
LILAC Lab Undergraduate, Vivian Le, has been accepted to the Speech-Language Pathology Master’s program. Congrats, Vivian!
August 2024
LILAC Lab undergraduate student, Elizabeth Martinez, has received the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) Office of Research Award. Awards are given based on judging of poster presentations. Posters are judged by 2-4 experts who may include faculty, graduate students, and staff members. Congrats, Elizabeth!
Summer 2024
LILAC Lab PhD student, McKenzie Cullinan, has been awarded the James C. Bartlett, PhD Fellowship. The James C. Bartlett Fellowship supports doctoral students in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. This fellowship was established in honor of Dr. James C. Bartlett. Among equally qualified applicants, preference is given to applicants studying autism spectrum disorders or related research topics. Congrats, McKenzie!
May 2024
Congrats class of 2024!
March 2024
LILAC Lab Undergraduate, Daniel Sanchez, has been accepted to be a BrainHealth Scholar over the Summer 2024. The BrainHealth Scholars Program is an educational internship in which scholars explore the importance of brain health. Congrats, Daniel!
LILAC Lab Undergraduate, Kelly Araujo, has been accepted to the Speech Language and Pathology fast track program. Congrats, Kelly!
LILAC Lab Undergraduate, Anjali Augustine, has been accepted to the Speech Language and Pathology fast track program. Congrats, Anjali!
Congratulations to Dr. Su, who was recently awarded a three-year NIH NIDCD R21 project! This funding will support a project aimed at examining word learning from infant-directed speech in autistic toddlers.
LILAC Lab participated in CCF’s Family Celebration “My Baby is a Scholar” event this weekend!
February 2024
Dr. Su’s new article on the early vocalizations in autistic infants, in collaboration with Dr. HyunJoo Yoo (University of Alabama), Dr. D. Kimbrough Oller (University of Memphis), and Dr. Gordon Ramsay (Marcus Autism Center), is out in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders! Read it here!
January 2024
Dr. Su gave a talk on how parentese supports early language learning in autistic children and in bilingual children to kick off The Center for Children and Families‘s 16th annual Spring Lecture Series. Check it out here!
LILAC Lab undergraduate student, Vivian Le, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholar Award to support her independent project on caregivers’ use of parentese in Mandarin-English bilingual families. Congratulations, Vivian!
2023
December 2023
❄️ LILAC Lab Holiday Party and White Elephant Social ❄️
November 2023
New goofy lab photo! Check out our growing team 👩🏻🤝👩🏼👩🏽🤝👨🏼
🎃 LILAC Lab Halloween Social 🕸️
