News

Alexis joins as a first year graduate student. 

Dr. Peri Gunalp defends her dissertation and graduates.

Crossroads project examines spatial navigation from interdisciplinary perspectives and brings these perspectives to undergraduates with a series of pedagogical videos.

Recent graduate Daniel Buonauro joins the lab as lab manager.

Dr. Trevor Barrett defends his dissertation and graduates. 

Peri Gunalp has received an internship at Pacific Science and Engineering for Summer 2019. She will be returning to UCSB in Fall 2019 to complete her dissertation next year, and has also been awarded a one-quarter dissertation fellowship from the UCSB Graduate Division for next year. Congratulations Peri! 

Dr. Alexander Boone defends his dissertation and graduates. 

Congratulations to our lab manager, Zoe Rathbun, who was admitted to the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program at the University of Washington, Seattle. Zoe has been an invaluable member of our research team for the last two years and has a great career in front of her. We wish her all the best for this next step in her journey.

Congratulations to Carol He who received her Masters Degree for her thesis entitled "How Attitudes about Navigation are Linked to Navigation Ability: Impact of Exploration Tendency and GPS Dependency." Carol is continuing in the Ph.D. program and has also passed the qualifying examination for a masters in Statistics, so she will be busy in the coming years!.

Alexander Boone's research entitled "Sex differences in navigation and strategy" published in Memory and Cognition this year has gained national attention, with references on Good Morning America and on popular news sites.