Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

Tanya was a first year undergraduate student with a major in Data Sciences and a minor in Linguistics when she joined the lab.in life is to be a polyglot. Whether or not that happens, she will continue pursuing her passions and hopes to work as a translator/interpreter. Tanya also enjoys the applied mathematical side of Data Sciences, as well as the the many coding languages involved, including Python and R Studio.

PIRE 2020 Fellow Remote to Puerto Rico

Sunny was a Linguistics major minoring in TESOL & Asian Studies. Fall 2021 was her first semester working in the lab. She is really intrigued by how bilinguals' brains work when they are processing more than one language, and this helped her to understand what's going on L2 learners' brain as she becomes a foreign language teacher in the future. She loves traveling and getting to know different cultures and being around people who speaks different kinds of languages.

PIRE 2020 Fellow Remote to Beijing, China

Victoria was a Communication Sciences and Disorders major with a minor in Spanish. She started working in the lab in Fall 2021 and is fascinated with bilingualism, and the cognitive processes that help people develop a language as an L2. Outside of classes, Victoria enjoys running, hiking, and cooking.

Jessica was a senior in the Fall of 2020 at Penn State majoring in Psychology with a minor in Italian. A fun fact about her is that she sails most weekends before it gets too cold.

Sarah was a sophomore majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies. Fall 2020 was her first semester in the lab, and she joined because the research is really interesting, and she loves learning about something new. A fun fact about Sarah is that her favorite animal is an elephant!

Anne was a Biomedical Engineering major who is a sophomore in 2020. Fall 2020 was her first semester in the lab, and she joined because she is very interested in the connection between linguistics and neuroscience. One interesting fact about Anne is that she can play the trumpet!

Isabella was a sophomore majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Pittsburgh, PA. Fall 2020 was her first semester in the lab, and she joined because she wanted the opportunity to take what she is learning in classes and apply it to real life science and experience.

PIRE 2020 Fellow Remote to Puerto Rico

PIRE 2020 Fellow Remote to Puerto Rico

Kylie was a double major studying Psychology and Spanish, with a minor in Linguistics. In the Fall of 2020, she joined the lab to obtain hands-on experience for real-world application of concepts she has learned at Penn State. She has been a research assistant with the Brain Tracking Lab for 3 semesters now. In that time, she has worked on projects analyzing code-switching, and bilingual speech patterns among native speakers and second language learners of Spanish. In her free time Kylie can be found enjoying creamery ice cream with her dog Niko!

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Puerto Rico

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Puerto Rico

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Beijing, China

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Granada, Spain

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Medellín, Colombia

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Medellín, Colombia

PIRE 2019 Fellow to Medellín, Colombia