The LEAD Lab is going to be at Planet Word's Language Science Fair next Saturday, May 10! This event is free & open to all ages! Stop by our 'Light up Your Language Brain' station to see your brain activity in real time🧠

Checkout @langscistation.bsky.social for more info

📣LEAD Lab presentations the @srcdorg 2025 Biennial Meeting this week!

@alexusgramirez.bsky.social: Symposium on 5/2 at 11:30 - 1:00
@elliektaylor.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 12:50 - 1:50
@alexamcd.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 11:30 - 12:30
@gavkhar-a.bsky.social: Poster on 5/3 at 11:10 - 12:10

We'd like to give a huge congratulations to Alex Haralanova, our Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant! Alex has been at the LEAD Lab since its beginning, so it was amazing to all watch her defend her honors thesis today. We are all so proud of you Alex and we can't wait to see what you do next!🥳🧠

🐢#MarylandDay is at the University of Maryland this Saturday 26th April at 10 AM - 4 PM!🐢

Come by the Benjamin Building to wear our fNIRS cap and see your brain in action🧠

Be sure to stop by McKeldin Mall too where the Social and Moral Development Lab will be to learn more about their research🥳

We would like to congratulate our very own Alexa McDorman @alexamcd.bsky.social for successfully defending their PhD dissertation this past Friday! We are so proud of you, and are glad to have been able to celebrate your accomplishment with a pie party! Here's to Dr. McDorman!

#PhDone

Welcome to the LEAD Lab @ UMD! Located in the Benjamin Building and led by Dr. Rachel Romeo, we study how kid's early experiences shape brain development, language & learning! Using interactive games and non invasive brain imaging, we study how minds grow and develop!

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