The Human Factors & Aging Laboratory was represented by 13 student posters and 2 oral presentations at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 24th. Congratulations to all of our students who presented! Your hard work was evident.

The Digital Assistant in a Box study, a long-term study in the HFA Lab, was recently featured in AHS News. The study shows the benefits of home assistant technology for older adults aging in place. Click here to read the

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