Morales Curriculum Vitae Short - nacs.umd.edu · Curriculum Vitae Santiago Morales [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae Santiago Morales [email protected]

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Education

• 2013-2017 Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University Advisors: Kristin Buss & Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Dissertation: Anxiety and attention bias towards threat: a developmental and multi-method approach

• 2011-2013 M.S. The Pennsylvania State University

Psychology

Thesis: Longitudinal associations between temperament and socioemotional outcomes in young children: the moderating role of RSA reactivity.

• 2007-2011 B.A. Hiram College

(GPA: 3.92) Summa Cum Lade Major: Neuroscience

Minors: Psychology, Biology, and Chemistry

Senior Thesis: Stability and neurobiological basis of fear and temperament across developmental time and experimental context in rats (Rattus norvegicus).

Research Experience

• 2017- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland PI: Dr. Nathan Fox & Dr. Elizabeth Redcay Using behavioral, electrophysiological, and neural approaches to study socioemotional development.

• 2014-2017 Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University

PI: Drs. Pamela Cole & Nilam Ram Working on a project aimed to explore the dynamics of self-regulation by using longitudinal methods to model micro-coded repeated measures.


PI: Dr. Kristin Buss Working on a longitudinal study aimed to understand socioemotional development in children using a multi-method approach of physiological, behavioral, and questionnaire measures.


PI: Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar Working on a project aimed to test the impact of an attention bias modification intervention on the neural, electrophysiological, and behavioral relations of temperamental risk for anxiety in children.


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Research Experience continued

• 2010- 2011 Senior Thesis, Hiram College Advisor: Dr. Thomas Koehnle Conducted and interpreted an experiment that explored rat temperament and its associated neurobiology.

• 2009-2010 Research Assistant, Neuroscience Dept. Hiram College PI: Dr. Thomas Koehnle Designed, conducted, analyzed, and presented a study on the behavioral responses towards novelty based on the different color morphs of the eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis).

• 2008-2009 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Neurobehavioral Investigations, Hiram College

PI: Dr. Kimberly Phillips Assisted in the design, preparation, and in the evaluation of data to a project investigating the awareness of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) to the attentional states of humans.

• 2008 Research Assistant, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, Mexico

PI: Dr. Pamplona and M.D. Ysunza Assisted on an experiment that tested different and novel linguistic strategies for children with speech and learning impairments.

Publications

1. Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Morales, S., & Fox N. A. (in press). Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control. In: Behavioral Inhibition: Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives. K. Pérez-Edgar & N. A. Fox (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

2. Forman-Alberti, A.B., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Buzzell, G.A., Bowers, M.E., Morales, S., Drury, S.S., Degnan, K.A., Goldman, D., Hodgkinson, C. A., Gorodetsky, E., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., & N.A. Fox. (in press). Additional Evidence for a Gene by Environment Interaction Predicting Social Reticence in Childhood. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

3. Morales S., Ram N., Buss K. A., Cole P. M., Helm J. L., & Chow S-M. (2017). Age-related changes in the dynamics of fear-related regulation in early childhood. Developmental Science, e12633. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12633

4. Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Allen, E. K., Brown, K. M., & Buss, K. A. (2017). The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first two years of life. Developmental Psychology, 53, 2219-2232.

5. Morales, S., Brown, K.M., Taber-Thomas, B.C., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A. & Pérez-Edgar, K.E. (2017). Maternal Anxiety Predicts Attentional Bias Towards Threat in Infancy. Emotion. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000275

6. Morales, S., Fu, X., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective on Affect Biased Attention. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 26–41. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.08.001


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Publications continued 7. Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B.C., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). Patterns of attention to threat

across tasks in behaviorally inhibited children at risk for anxiety. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12391

8. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., Hillary, F. G., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). Altered topography of intrinsic functional connectivity in childhood risk for social anxiety. Depression and Anxiety. DOI: 10.1002/da.22508

9. Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss K. A. (2016). Longitudinal relations among exuberance, externalizing behaviors, and attentional bias to reward: the mediating role of effortful control. Developmental Science. 19: 853–862. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12320

10. Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss K. A. (2015). Attention biases towards and away from threat mark the relation between early dysregulated fear and the later emergence of social withdrawal. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(6), 1067-1078. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-014-9963-9

11. Morales, S., Beekman, C., Blandon, A.Y., Stifter, C. A., & Buss, K. A. (2015). Longitudinal associations between temperament and socioemotional outcomes in young children: the moderating role of RSA and gender. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(1), 105-119. DOI: 10.1002/dev.21267

12. Buss, K. A., Morales, S., Cho, S., & Philbrook, L. (2015). Infant temperament and socioemotional development: a biopsychosocial framework. In S. Calkins (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Biopsychosocial Development. Guilford Press.

13. Pérez-Edgar, K. E., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Auday, E., Morales, S. (2014). Temperament and attention as core mechanisms in the early emergence of anxiety. In Lagattuta, K. (ed). Children and Emotion. New Insights into Developmental Affective Sciences. Contrib Hum Dev. Basel, Karger, vol 26, pp 42-56. DOI:10.1159/000354350

14. Buss, K. A., Kiel, E. J., Morales, S., & Robinson, E. (2013). Toddler inhibitory control, bold response to novelty, and positive affect predict externalizing symptoms in kindergarten. Social Development, 23: 232–249. DOI: 10.1111/sode.12058

15. Pamplona, M. C., Ysunza, A., Chavelas, K., Arámburu, E., Patiño, C., Martí, F., & Morales, S. (2012). A study of strategies for treating compensatory articulation in patients with cleft palate. Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery, 11(2), 144-151.DOI: 10.1007/s12663-011-0314-x

Publications in Progress

1. Morales, S., Bowman, L. C., Velnoskey, K. R., Fox, N. A., & Redcay, E. (under review). An

fMRI study of action observation and action execution in childhood. 2. Morales, S., Miller, N. V., Troller-Renfree, S. V., White, L. K., Degnan, K. A., Henderson H. A.,

& Fox, N. A. (under review). Attention bias to reward predicts behavioral problems and moderates early risk to externalizing and attention problems.

3. Morales, S., Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Young Children’s Behavioral and Neural Responses to Peer Feedback Relate to Internalizing Problems

4. Vallorani, A., Thai, N. K., MacNeill, L. A., Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B. C., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Combined risk: Temperamental, cognitive, and electrophysiological markers for social anxiety symptoms.

5. Suarez, G., Morales, S., Metcalf K., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Perinatal complications associated with social anxiety: the mediating role of temperament.


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Symposia and Paper Presentations

1. Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., MacNeill, L., & Vallorani, A. (2017). Young children's affective and psychophysiological responses to acceptance and rejection from peers. Paper presented at the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D. C.

2. Morales, S., Brown, K. M., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Effortful Control Modulates Young Children's Affective Responses to Acceptance and Rejection from Peers. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

3. Pérez-Edgar, K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Liu, P., Morales, S., & Auday, E. (2017). Attention Bias to Threat as a Mechanism Shaping Anxiety in Children. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

4. Pérez-Edgar, K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Liu, P., Thai, N., & Morales, S. 5. (2017). Electrophysiological Markers of Change in Attention to Threat and Temperamental Risk

for Anxiety. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

6. Thai, N., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Electrophysiological markers of behavioral inhibition, attention bias modification, and social anxiety in children. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

7. Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., Thai, N., Auday, E., Fu, X., & Taber-Thomas, B. C. (2016) Neural Substrates of Attention Biases to Threat in Risk for Pediatric Anxiety. Paper to be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, New York, New York.

8. Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., Thai, N., Auday, E., Fu, X., & Taber-Thomas, B. C. (2016) Neural Substrates of Attention Biases to Threat in Risk for Pediatric Anxiety. Paper to be presented at the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, California.

9. Morales, S., Brown, K.M., Taber-Thomas, B.C., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A., & Pérez-Edgar, K.E. (2016). Maternal Anxiety Predicts Attentional Bias Towards Threat in Infancy. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

10. Morales, S., Shewark, E. A., Beltz, A., Molenaar, P. C., & Buss, K. A. (2015). The Utility of Unified Structural Equation Modeling (uSEM) for the Study of Regulation and Dysregulation of Fear. In Morales, S. & Cole P. M. (Chairs), Longitudinal Methods for the Study of Self-Regulation and Its Development. Symposium conducted at the Society for Research in Child Development’s Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

11. Pérez-Edgar, K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Thai, N., Morales, S., & Danilo, C. (2013). Electrophysiological and Neural Correlates of Attention Bias Modification in Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Paper presented at the 25th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

12. Pamplona, M.C., Ysunza, A., Chavelas, K., Arámburu, E., Patiño C., Martí, F., Morales, S. (2011) The use of strategies for treating compensatory articulation errors in cleft palate patients. Paper presented at the Asian Pacific Cleft Lip and Palate Craniofacial Congress, Australia.

13. Morales, S. (2010) Modulation of neophobia by color phase in the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Paper presented at the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, Ames, IA.


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Poster Presentations

1. Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Harrewijn, A., Marshall, P. J., Reeb-Sutherland, B. C., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2018). Infant electrophysiological responses to auditory novelty longitudinally predict externalizing and attention problems across childhood. Poster to be presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada.

2. Morales, S., Bowman, L. C., Velnoskey, K. R., Fox, N. A., & Redcay, E. (2018). An fMRI study of action observation and action execution in childhood. Poster presented at FLUX Society Satellite Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

3. MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Neural and behavioral correlates of children's attention bias to reward and social adjustment: Examining the role of parenting. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

4. Anaya, B., Thai, N., MacNeill, L. A., Galinsky, P., Morales, S., & K. Pérez-Edgar. (2017). Behavioral inhibition and anxiety in relation to delta-beta coupling: potential effects of an ABM intervention. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

5. Vallorani, A., Thai, N. K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., MacNeill, L. A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Triple threat: Behavioral inhibition, frontal EEG asymmetry, and attention bias to threat as a high-risk marker profile for social anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Los Angeles, CA.

6. Morales, S. & Buss, K. A. (2017). Physiological Markers of Emotion Regulation Moderate the Relation Between Surgency and Externalizing in Young Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

7. Shewark, E., Brick, T., Morales, S., & Buss, K. A. (2017). Capturing Temporal Dynamics of Fear Behaviors on a Second by Second Basis. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

8. Brown, K. M., Morales, S., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Dynamic Fear Expression in Infants vary with Age and Maternal Anxiety. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

9. Fu, X., Brown, K. M., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Temperament Moderates Vigilance to Emotional Faces in Infants: Evidence from an Eye Tracking Study. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

10. Galinsky, P., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Morales, S., Thai, N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Attention Control Moderates the Impact of Attention Bias Modification on Anxiety in Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

11. MacNeill, L., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Attention Biases and Disengagement Moderate Associations between Parenting and Young Children’s Adjustment Problems. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

12. Metcalf, K., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Behavioral Inhibition as a Potential Mediator between Neonatal and Birth Complications and Separation Anxiety in Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.


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Poster Presentations Continued

13. Vallorani, A., Morales, S., Brown, K. M., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017). Associations among attentional bias to reward, effortful control and externalizing. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

14. Morales, S., Ram, N., Buss, K.A., Cole, P.M., Helm, J.L., & Chow, S. (2016). Age Differences in the Self-Regulation of Fear: Changes in the Dynamic Coupling of Prepotent and Executive Processes. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

15. Palmer, A., McDoniel, M., Morales, S., & Buss, K.A. (2016). The Effects of Infant Exuberance and Effortful Control on Peer Acceptance in Kindergarten. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

16. Fu, X., Brown, K. M., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). Effortful Control Moderates Vigilance to Emotional Faces in Infants: Evidence from an Eye Tracking Study. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

17. Minnick, M. R., Auday, E. S., Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., Soto, J. A., & Taber-Thomas, B. C. (2016) Normative Trait Anxiety Level as a Predictor of the Influences of Attentional Systems on Cognitive Performance. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

18. Morales, S. & Buss, K. A. (2015). Longitudinal Relations Between Temperamental Surgency and Externalizing: The Moderating Role of PEP. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

19. Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss, K. A. (2015). Longitudinal Relations among Exuberance, Externalizing, and Attentional Bias to Reward: the Mediating Role of Effortful Control. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

20. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., & Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2015). Resting-state brain connectivity in behaviorally inhibited children at risk for anxiety. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

21. Schwartz, A., Morales, S., Cole, P. M., Teti, D., Gest, S., Dorn, L., & Buss, K. A. (2015) Dysregulated Fear Predicts Social Anxiety and Over-protecting Parenting Styles in Early Adolescence. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

22. Younkins, L.B., Philbrook, L.E., Morales, S., Blandon, A.Y., & Buss, K.A. (2015). The relationship between cooperative coparenting and academic functioning and the moderating role of inhibition. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

23. Morales, S., Beekman, C., & Buss, K.A. (2014). Trajectories of RSA Reactivity: Implications for Childhood Adjustment. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.

24. Morales, S., Philibrook, L,E., Younkins, L,B., Buss, K.A. (2014) Longitudinal relations between exuberant temperament and academic functioning: the role of RSA reactivity. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.

25. Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B.C., Thai, N. & Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2014). Behavioral inhibition moderates the relation between EEG asymmetry and social anxiety. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2014.


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Poster Presentations continued

26. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., & Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2014). Default and salience network intrinsic connectivity in behaviorally inhibited children at risk for anxiety. Poster presented at Fourth Biennial Conference on Resting State / Brain Connectivity, Boston, MA, September 2014, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, and Society for Social Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2014.

27. Taber-Thomas, B. C., Morales, S., Auday, E., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2013). Behavioral inhibition and frontolimbic functioning in late childhood. Poster presented at Flux Congress, Pittsburg, P.A.

28. Thai, N., Taber-Thomas, B., Danilo, C., Morales, S., & Perez-Edgar, K. (2013). Right frontal EEG asymmetry is associated with attention bias toward threat in children at risk for anxiety. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science meeting, Washington, DC.

29. Morales, S., Brooker, R. J., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss, K. A. (2013). Differences in Attention in Fearful Children: a Comparison of Dysregulated and Normative Fear-Expression Profiles. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

30. Morales, S., Beekman, C., & Buss, K.A. (2013). Longitudinal Associations Between Temperament and Socio-Emotional Outcomes in Young Children: The Moderating Role of RSA Reactivity. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

31. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Hardee, J.E., Morales, S., Auday, E., & Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2013). The Frontolimbic System and Attention Bias to Threat in Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Paper presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

32. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., Thai, N., Danilo, C., & Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2013). Right Frontal EEG Asymmetry and the Disengagement of Attention from Negative Stimuli in Children at Risk for Anxiety. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

33. Fu, X., Auday, E., Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., Allen, E.A., Thai, N., Pfeifer, C., Danilo, C., Koraly Perez-Edgar, K.E. (2013). The Role of Attention Bias in the Link Between Temperament and Socio-emotional Maladjustment. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.

34. Morales, S., Beekmam, C., Davis, E. L., & Buss, K. A. (2012). Comparison Among Different Models for Evaluating RSA Reactivity in Children. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

35. Morales, S., Brooker,R.J., Davis, E.L., and Buss, K.A. (2012) Longitudinal Associations Between Physiological Indices of Regulation. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN.

36. Koehnle, T.J. and Morales, S. (2011) Individual differences in adult rat antipredator behavior can be predicted from elevated plus maze testing in weanlings. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC.

37. Phillips, K.A., Gilbert V.R., Morales, S., and Hambright, M.K. Communicative behaviors of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) vary with attentional state of an observer and desirability of food. Poster presented in the 33rd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists in 2010.


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Awards and Scholarships

• Liberal Arts Welch/Nagle Family Graduate Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University • ICIS Travel Award 2016 • SRCD Student Travel Award 2013, 2015, and 2017 • SPR Student Travel Award 2014 • Strumpf Scholar Award 2013-2014, The Pennsylvania State University • Child Study Center Graduate Student Assistantship 2013-2014, The Pennsylvania State University • Child Study Center Travel Award for SfN 2011, ICIS 2012, SPR 2012, SfN 2014, SPR 2014,

SRCD 2015, & SRCD 2017, The Pennsylvania State University. • Distinguished Student Achievement Award: Michael Dively Leadership Award 2011, Hiram

College • Member of the Alpha Society 2007-2011, Hiram College • Eastman Kodak Company Award 2010-2011, Hiram College • Travel Grant for Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference 2010 • 2 time Winner, Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation Research Internship, summer 2009 and

2010, Hiram College • Outstanding Organic Chemistry Student Award 2010, Hiram College • Dean’s List for 7 semesters, Hiram College • Global Recognition Award 2007-2011, Hiram College • Global Hayden Scholarship 2007-2011, Hiram College

Teaching Experience

• 2012-2013 Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University Attended to classes with students, graded, occasionally lectured, and held review sessions to answer questions and review class material.

• 2010-2011 Supplemental Instructor for Introductory Chemistry, Hiram College Attended to classes with students and held review sessions to answer questions and review class material.

• 2009-2011 Tutor of Science College Courses, Hiram College Tutored introductory psychology, introductory biology, introductory chemistry, and organic chemistry courses.

• 2005-08, 2011 Group Leader, Speech Summer Camp for Cleft Palate Children, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, Mexico Supervised and taught adolescents and children with special needs, particularly cleft palate.


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Review Experience Journal Reviews

o Child Development o Social Development o Developmental Psychology o Scientific Reports (with Dr. Nathan Fox as primary reviewer) o Developmental Psychobiology o PNAS (with Dr. Nathan Fox as primary reviewer) o Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience o Development and Psychopathology (with Dr. Pamela Cole as primary reviewer) o Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar as primary reviewer) o Infancy o Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry o PLOS One

Conference Reviews

o Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting 2017, Austin, TX. o International Conference of Infant Studies 2018, Philadelphia, PA.

University Involvement • 2016-2017 Vice President, Latin American Graduate Student Association, The Pennsylvania

State University Organized and developed activities aimed to celebrate Latin festivities and traditions, in order to promote awareness of Latin traditions.

• 2013 Student member, Search Committee for Director of Human MRI Facility Search, The Pennsylvania State University Student member on the search committee composed of other six professors in the psychology and HDFS departments.

• 2013-2014 Secretary, AXONS, The Pennsylvania State University Took notes; summarized meetings; and organized the election process in this student lead organization for graduate students interested in neuroscience.

• 2009-2011 Student Member, Diversity Committee, Hiram College One of two student members on the committee composed of the director of ethnic diversity, the dean, and the vice president of the college, and college faculty. Participated in efforts to encourage, and evaluate all efforts related to diversity on campus.

• 2010-2011 President, Spanish Club, Hiram College 2008-2010 Vice President, Spanish Club, Hiram College

Organized and developed activities for club of 84 students aimed to celebrate Spanish festivities and traditions, in order to increase Latin awareness. In 2010, awarded the Most Improved Student Organization.


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Memberships • Society for Neuroscience (2011-2013) • Society for Psychophysiological Research (2012-present) • Society for Research in Child Development (2013-present) • Turner Society (2011-present)

Documents

Morales Curriculum Vitae Short - nacs.umd.edu · Curriculum Vitae Santiago Morales [email protected]