Pitt LIFE Lab

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Isabella Kahhale graduated from Tufts University in Boston with a degree in Cognitive &Brain Sciences and a minor in English. Before coming to Pitt for graduate school, she worked as a research coordinator at the Standford Social Neuroscience Lab, organizing projects looking into people’s emotional reactions to victim and defendant narratives of courtroom cases. If she had $5 million to create her ideal study, she’d use the money to work on a mindfulness intervention program to help prisoners around the world with their rehabilitation. Her ideals carry her into the future as she hopes to produce research with our lab that will help to influence legislative policies that could improve people’s lives. When she’s not out to save the world, Isabella enjoys exploring the Strip District during Pittsburgh’s sunny days.

Another conference down and on to the next! Grad student, Esther Palacios-Barrios, presented her research on how economic stress affects adolescent development at the 2019 Ford Conference San Juan, Puerto Rico. Oh, the places you’ll go... with research!!