SPRING 2026
Paige, Narjes, and Fulden presented their posters at Pediatric Research Day
Narjes was accepted into her PhD program!
Maria celebrated the completion of her graduate program!
Paige, Allison, and Fulden attended the Pediatric Academic Socities (PAS) Conference in Boston, MA 
Allison presented our research at Northeastern University
Allison presented our research for Frontiers in Pediatrics

 

FALL 2025
Narjes and Jess began as lab coordinators
Hunter joined as an undergraduate research assistant 
Paige presented in Ireland in September!
SPRING 2025
Maria and Paige presented their posters at Pediatric Research Day at and Pediatric Academic Society Conference in Hawaii!
Saffron presented her poster at Pediatric Academic Society Conference in Hawaii!
Both Parker and Gretchen are graduating from the University of Iowa in May! Parker will receive a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Gretchen will receive a B.S. in Neuroscience.
Gretchen was accepted into medical school and will be starting in August!
Parker will be joining Deloitte Consulting as a healthcare consultant in Washington D.C.! 
FALL 2024
Allison was hired by University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital onto the Neonatology Faculty team!
The lab welcomed Lindsey Rhea as a new lab member!
Paige attended the Flux International Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Conference and the Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group Conference in in Baltimore, MD
Over the semester Gretchen developed and designed the NEST lab website, now published for your viewing!
SPRING 2024
Gretchen presented her research poster Relations Between Gestational Age and ADHD Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Executive and Socioemotional Functioning at Pediatric Research Day!
Paige received Children’s Miracle Network funding for Fall and Spring 2024: Chronic Lung Disease after Extreme Prematurity and Patterns of Brain Maturation
FALL 2023
Paige attended the Flux International Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Conference and the Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Group Conference
SPRING 2023
Paige was accepted into the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship