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… Read more: HFA Undergrads Present at URS

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… Read more: Digital Assistant in a Box featured in AHS News

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… Read more: Congratulations, Ryan!

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… Read more: Congratulations Undergrads!

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… Read more: Congratulations, Tooba!

Several HFA Lab members had the opportunity to attend Connecting Researchers Studying Aging at Illinois on January 24th. It was a great time to connect and learn about the aging… Read more: Connecting Researchers Studying Aging at Illinois

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 23rd. Ryan did a great job of… Read more: Congratulations, Dr. Santens!

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… Read more: Farewell, Tongxin!

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… Read more: HFA Lab at GSA

Graduate student Willencia Louis-Charles had a successful thesis proposal on November 11. Congratulations on being one step closer to your MS in Community Health, Willencia!

Lab director Wendy Rogers received the award for the faculty member with the most projects at REDCap Day. Congratulations on this fun award!

Postdoctoral researcher Pallabi Bhowmick has been selected as a recipient of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Diversity Mentoring and Career Development Technical Assistance Workshop Diversity Fellow Award.  This award… Read more: Congratulations To Pallabi!

Congratulations to Mimi on a very successful Dissertation Proposal Meeting. Her committee was very interested in her topic and Mimi has a streamlined plan for her dissertation. Well done, Mimi!

The McKechnie Family LIFE Home and HFA Lab member Afnaan Afsaar Ali were featured in the first picture of the Healthy Aging Research Impact Campaign. Click here to learn more about the… Read more: Afnaan Featured in Illinois Research Impact

Elle Eastman and RJ Mattas joined the HFA Lab as this year’s Students Pursuing Applications, Research, and Knowledge (SPARK). Elle will be assisting on the Diabetes Study and RJ will… Read more: SPARK Students Join HFA Lab

Former HFA Postdocs George Mois and Renato Azevedo have both started new positions as Assistant Professors at the University Of Georgia. George is in the Department of Health Promotion and… Read more: George and Renato start at UGA

Several lab members attended and presented at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society ASPIRE Conference September 9-12. They were able to meet up with current and past colleagues at Illinois… Read more: Illinois Night at HFES

Congratulations to HFA Lab members Esther Cardenas and Stone Shi on their successful presentations at the Community-Academic Scholar event! Esther presented “Robots Support in Care Facilities: Designing to Understand the Perceptions… Read more: Community-Academic Scholar Presentation

Congratulations to HFA Lab members Camryn Lynn and Michael Varzino! At the MS in Health Technology Capstone Celebration, Camryn received the Michael Vitoux Capstone Excellence Award and Michael received an… Read more: Congratulations, Camryn and Michael!

Drs. Samuel Olatunji and Harshal Mahajan received an award for a paper they jointly led earlier this year! They have been selected to received a 2024 Innovative Research on Aging… Read more: Samuel and Harshal Receive Award

Congratulations to Drs. Harshal Mahajan and Samuel Olatunji! They have received a Center on Health, Aging, and Disability Pilot Grant for $30,000 for their proposal entitled “Robot Support for Individuals… Read more: Harshal and Samuel Receive CHAD Pilot Grant

Esther Cardenas and Shuoning (Stone) Shi are joining us for the summer as Community Academic Scholars. They will be advised by Drs. Wendy Rogers, Raksha Mudar, and Samuel Olatunji and… Read more: HFA & AANCL Labs Welcome Community Academic Scholars