Undergraduate Spotlight
As a university laboratory school, we benefit from having undergraduate students participate in our school in myriad ways. From interns to student teachers to research methods students to student employees, our ongoing relationship with these students is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Throughout the year, we will introduce you to these wonderful individuals. We feel very fortunate to be able to have them at our school each day!
May 2024: Farewell, Seniors!
The Children’s School would like to congratulate and wish all the best to our graduating seniors, Megan Matsko, Lilly McLeod, and Ziggy Sheynin. They have been a tremendous addition to The Children’s School community and we will miss them!
We know all these graduates will do great things!
Megan Matsko
Megan has taken every possible course at the Children’s School, served as a student employee, and collected data for her senior thesis research here this spring on “The Effect of Confidence on the Uptake of Feedback in Adults and Children”. In the fall, she is heading to the University of Alabama to earn her Ph.D. in child clinical psychology, specifically doing research on ADHD in children.
From Megan, “First and foremost I wanted to thank the Children's School for all the amazing experiences it has given me throughout the last 4 years. The Children's School aided me in selecting CMU as a college in the first place, and it definitely lived up to my expectations in every way, and even exceeded them. Therefore, I just wanted to send my gratitude for everything that the Children's School has done for me and the career path it has helped me achieve.”
Lilly McLeod
Lilly won the Psychology Research prize at CMU’s recent Meeting of the Minds undergraduate conference for her thesis on “Psychosocial Contextual Factors Associated with Cannabis Consumption and Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS)”. Lilly is planning to work for the next two years as a research assistant before pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical/health psychology.
Ziggy Sheynin
Ziggy, a Psychology and Hispanic Studies double major, received the Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award, which recognizes a Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences student with exceptional academic and professional achievement who plans to pursue graduate studies in education. Ziggy is starting her masters degree in Social Work at The University of Pittsburgh this fall.
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