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Cooper Lab presents at the 4th Annual STEM Inclusion Summit!
The Research for Inclusive STEM Education (RISE) Center hosted the 2025 STEM Inclusion Summit and everyone presented! Olivia Davis presented her poster titled "Fail-Safe Science: a video repository to promote wellbeing among science graduate students" Tasneem Mohammed presented her poster titled "The relationship between aspects of academia and depression among science faculty" Jynx Pigart presented her poster titled "Undergraduates in STEM fields and women report wors
Oct 31, 2025


Mary and Tasneem win poster & thesis competitions!
This month, lab members competed in the School of Life Sciences 3-Min. Thesis and Research Poster Competition. Mary won 1st place at the poster competition, where she presented her poster "Graduate students with depression deploy adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies when encountering stressors in research." Tasneem won 2nd place for her 3 minute thesis "What are the academic causes and effects of depression among science faculty?". Congrats Mary and Tasneem!
Oct 8, 2025


New publication! A proof of concept for Hopelessness Theory of Depression: attributions help explain why stressors in scientific research can exacerbate depression among undergraduates and graduates
First-year PhD student Mary Kahraman just penned a new study observing whether Abramson's Hopelessness Theory of Depression can explain...
Sep 30, 2025
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