Effectively managing your lab can be challenging. Indeed, many assistant professors have said this is something with which they struggle. In response, the Center for Social & Behavioral Science held an Emerging Investigators lunch on the topic on Thursday, November 7th, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.
This gathering offered the opportunity for discussion with a panel of social and behavioral science faculty who are particularly effective at managing their labs. The panel included Karen Dina Tabb (School of Social Work), Naiman Khan (health & kinesiology), and Joe Cohen (psychology) who shared their approaches to lab management.
Attendees brought questions related to topics such as: supervising students and staff, fostering a collaborative environment, balancing research priorities, and project planning and management. This lunch also provided a great opportunity to network with other assistant professors in the social and behavioral sciences across campus.
Panelist Profiles:
Joe Cohen – associate professor, psychology | Cohen’s research focuses on how and why certain children and adolescents go on to develop internalizing symptoms. Cohen examines the prospective interplay between cognitive, interpersonal, and physiological vulnerability factors and the onset and maintenance of depression in both domestic and international youth samples. His recent research interests include translating these basic developmental psychopathology findings into screening procedures that can better identify youth living in adverse family contexts.
Naiman Kahn – associate professor, health and kinesiology | Kahn’s research has taken a multidisciplinary approach to integrate knowledge in the areas of nutrition, kinesiology, and cognitive neuroscience to understand the influence of health behaviors on specific aspects of attention, memory and achievement. The overarching objective of his research program is to generate foundational knowledge in translating the impact of health behaviors to childhood cognitive function.
Karen Tabb Dina – professor, School of Social Work | | Tabb Dina’s current research agenda focuses on identifying risk factors for morbidity and mortality among perinatal women and clinical factors to improve minority health. Dr. Tabb Dina is also an expert collaborator (in the areas of diabetes, mental health, maternal health, and North America) for the Global Burden of Disease Study where she contributes to estimating population morbidity and mortality for 188 countries.