HFA Undergraduate Research Assistant Fatima Pantoja earned the F. Patricia Cullen Scholarship at the AHS awards on April 10. Congratulations, Fatima!

Congratulations to one of our grad students, Ryan Santens, who recently received the Reginald J. Alston award for excellence in Community Health and Rehabilitation. He received the award for his work on his dissertation “Illinois Mindful Wellbeing (I’M WELL)” in

Congratulations to Tooba on the successful defense of her Master’s thesis! Her presentation was very well-organized and clearly presented. Well done Tooba! We can’t wait to see what you do next!

Congratulations to our HFA undergraduate students, past and present, who have recently had papers accepted in academic journals. Undergraduates are an integral part of our lab and we would not be able to conduct our research without them. Our lab

Several HFA Lab members, past and present, attended and presented at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Healthcare Symposium in Toronto. Click here to see more details about the conference.

Congratulations to HFA graduate student Tooba Umar for a successful thesis proposal! Her project is titled “Perceptions of Everyday Challenges for Older Traumatic Brain Injury, Care Partner-Care Recipient Dyads.” We are excited to see the results of Tooba’s research.

Several HFA Lab members had the opportunity to attend Connecting Researchers Studying Aging at Illinois on January 24^th. It was a great time to connect and learn about the aging research others at Illinois are doing. Dr. Rogers

HFA Lab member Ryan Santens successfully defended his dissertation, “A Community-Based Implementation of an Adapted Mindfulness-Based Intervention with a Low-Income Population,” on January 23^rd. Ryan did a great job of presenting his research and answering questions. We can’t

Tongxin Sun has been at the HFA Lab as a visiting scholar for the past year, and is returning to Beijing to finish her PhD. We celebrated her time with us and the upcoming holidays with a lab dinner. We’ll

The Human Factors and Aging Lab was represented by 8 members at the Gerontological Society of America, with several presentations and posters. In addition to attending the conference and presenting research, we were able to catch up with lab members