Julius A. Utama
Elysha Clark-Whitney
Julius A. Utama is a senior in the Applied Psychology undergraduate program, with a minor in Sociology. He is a research assistant on the NYU L-FELD team, led by Dr. Gigliana Melzi and Dr. Adina Schick, and has completed an honors thesis investigating the role of homeschool continuity in behavior management practices on the self-regulation skills of Latino preschoolers. Julius is also a research assistant on Dr. Lisa Suzuki’s Emotional Intelligence lab, where he has conducted several independent research projects examining the association between emotional and cultural intelligence, the mediating role of ethnic identity, and the creation and validation of the Digital Emotional Intelligence index (DEQ). Julius has presented his research at various conferences, including the APA Convention, the L. Starling Reid Undergraduate Psychology Conference (UVA), and the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference. he has also worked as a research assistant for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Julius hopes to expand his involvement in analytics and big data as he transitions into a market research role at IBM post-graduation.
Elysha Clark-Whitney is a senior in the Applied Psychology undergraduate program, with a minor in history. Her primary area of interest is Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has had the opportunity to work with children on the Autism spectrum through volunteering at LearningSpring School and an internship conducting Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) at the Manhattan Children’s Center. She is particularly interested in researching the relation of anxiety and restricted/repetitive behaviors among children on the Autism spectrum, and will be furthering her work in Autism research at the Weill-Cornell Center for Autism and the Developing Brain/Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology. Elysha also works with preschoolers from families of low socioeconomic status, as part of her work with the NYU L-FELD research team, and is also a research assistant in the NYU FACES Lab. Elysha recently completed an honors thesis about the relation between expressive language, executive function, and narrative skills in low-income bilingual preschoolers, and will be presenting her findings at the National Research Conference on Early Childhood (NRCEC) in June 2018.
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