University of Massachusetts Amherst

Increasing the amount of sleep children get, by advancing bedtime, improves cognitive functioning of typically developing children. In my dissertation research, I hope to extend these findings t...

Sleep is beneficial for memory formation. Consequently, those with poor sleep quality (e.g., older adults) also have increased forgetfulness. We plan to see whether improving sleep quality using...

Climate change threatens biodiversity around the world. I propose to travel to Australia to finalize an ongoing research project aimed at investigating the impacts of climate change on ant biodiver...