Congratulations to HFA graduate student Veronica Falcon on a successful thesis proposal! She did a wonderful job and we are excited to see the results of her thesis!
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Congratulations, Yao-Lin!
Congratulations to HFA graduate student Yao-Lin Tsai on passing his preliminary exams! We’re excited to see what he does next with his dissertation!
Congratulations, Veronica and Yao-Lin!
HFA graduate students Veronica Falcon and Yao-Lin Tsai both won awards at the HFES Conference in October. Veronica won the Best Paper Award and Yao-Lin the Best Poster Award, both from the Aging & Ability Technical Group. Both presentations were
HFA at GSA
Several HFA Lab members presented at the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting in Boston in November.
Abigail Anokye
Abigail is a junior studying Community Health. After graduation, she plans to pursue a Master’s in Nursing.
Abigail’s research interests include health equity, health literacy in underrepresented groups, and health behavior interventions.
Welcome, START Students!
We are pleased to once again welcome two Student Aging Researchers in Training members to the HFA Lab. Abigail Anokye will be assisting on graduate student Mimi Trinh’s dissertation and Gizel Fahimi will assist postdoc Pallabi Bhowmick on the Soft
Visit with Dr. Charness
The HFA Lab was pleased to have Dr. Neil Charness visit to collaborate on research and offer his advice at the end of October. The discussion continued as several lab members attended dinner with Dr. Charness.
Human Factors in Healthcare Best Article Award
Congratulations to Drs. Qiong (Tina) Nie, Dan Morrow, Renato Azevedo, and Wendy Rogers on winning the Human Factors in Healthcare Best Article Award at HFES for their paper “Developing Feedback Visualizations to Support Older Adults” based on their work in
HFES Student Chapter Silver Award
Congratulations to the Illinois Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Student Chapter on winning the Silver Award at HFES last week! HFA graduate student Veronica Falcon Borbolla is the Vice President of the Illinois Chapter.
HFES Illinois Night
The Human Factors & Aging Lab was well represented at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting in Chicago October 13-17. Lab members, alumni, and collaborators joined together to celebrate at Illinois Night.