Where are they Now?
Lab Alumni

Debora Dunphy:

Emmy-Award-winner, director Visual FX for Stargate Atlantis TV series, CIS Vancouver. See Article in MGM Roar magazine: Page 1, Page 2. VFX World.com interview: PDF

Emily Campbell:

Working with the lab for the summer (2006)She is here from Dalhousie Department of Psychology, NSERC USRA (University Student Research Award) winner summer 2006

Janet Roloson

Janet Roloson is an Honours Psychology candidate working under the supervision of Dr. Cohen.She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from UPEI.  She is currently employed in the field of Addictions while she completes the final work for her honours thesis and defense.  In her spare time, she composes songs.

Steven Newman

Steve Newman is currently a DJ on PEI's KROK radio station. He graduated with a Bachelor of Education Degree from UPEI following his  Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from UPEI 2002.  He also graduated from the New York Film Academy ’s Short Filmaker Program in 1998.  For the past 8 years he has produced, promoted, and performed his own “Trivia Game Show” every week.  During this summer he has been conducting research on film music which combines his expertise in film and scientific psychology.

Angela Arsenault

Angela Arsenault graduated from U.P.E.I. in 2004 with her; Honours BSc with a major in psychology and a minor in biology. After completing her honours thesis with Dr. Annabel Cohen, Angela was accepted with full scholarship to  Dalhousie University , where she will pursue her Masters and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. Angela’s research interests include music effects in absorption, learning, attention, and memory, as well as multimedia perception and e-learning cognition. During her years at UPEI, Angela served as Psychology Club VP, Psychology Department representative, and Canadian Psychological Association campus representative. Angela enjoys playing solo violin as well as with the PEI symphony.

Ian Toms (B. A. Mus. McGill)

Recently completed his Masters degree in music at McGill

Virginia MacSwain, B. Sc. (U.P.E.I.)

research Technician Virginia MacSwain provided computer and other technical support for the laboratory from 1997-1998. She maintained the day-to-day functioning of the laboratory and its equipment and developed new programs and demonstrations to support the research and laboratory training. She provided the scaffolding to assist numerous students in making use of the laboratory facilities. Virginia was also a part-time laboratory instructor in the U.P.E.I. Physics Department, where she obtained her first degree. Virginia's graduate course work in mathematics and physics also contributed to the foundation for quantitative work in the laboratory. Virginia has since taken a full-time position with ITEC, UPEI's Information Technology in Education Centre.

Alan McKenna (B. A., U.P.E.I.)

Alan assisted in testing the new computerized emotional meaning test. Alan is now taking graduate studies at Dalhousie in Audiology.

Tom Bushell (programmer)

In a consultancy capacity, Tom Bushell has applied over 15 years of professional programming experience to computer hardware, and C++ and Visual Basic problems in the laboratory. He assisted in the development of several programs in the laboratory. Currently he is employed at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, in Nova Scotia.

Peter Burka, (B. Sc.) (programmer)

Peter is currently employed with IBM in Ottawa working on Java. He worked in the laboratory for 2 years on a part-time basis while an undergrad at U.P.E.I. At that time U.P.E.I. did not offer a full computer science undergraduate degree. He completed the last two years at Acadia.

Jocelyn Lymburner (B. A., M. A)

Jocelyn worked in the laboratory as an NSERC summer undergraduate research fellow in 1994. She conducted research on auditory sequential memory that was reported at a meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association. She has since received her Master's at Simon Fraser University, and is a doctoral candidate. An area of research interest is emotional sensitivity in young offenders. Jocelyn returned to UPEI last year and taught a course on Psychology and Law.

Lisa Clyburn (B. A., M.A.)

Lisa worked as a summer assistant in the laboratory investigating preference and familiarity for music in elderly listeners. She has since received her Masters at the University of Alberta in Educational and Counselling Psychology, and is currently a Ph. D. candidate.

Tracy Doucette (B. A. Hons. U.P.E.I.).

Tracy provided assistance in development of experimental test materialst, running experiments and data analysis during two of her undergraduate years. She is currently a Ph. D. candidate in the Atlantic Veterinary College. Some of her research entails the analysis of maternal ultrasonic vocalizations in rats as a behavioural measure of stress-related drug effects.