May 2026: Congratulations to Tris Kinder who was awarded the summer 2026 URO award!

May 2026: Congratulations to Saeeda Saadat for their role as a Community Project Coordinator awarded through Career Boost!

April 2026: Congratulations to Jennifer Preman for their new role as an employment settlement specialist at the welcome centres in Richmond Hill and Markham North!

January 2026: The CAL welcomes new research practicum students Vita Christoforou and Anja Dimitrijevic!

November 2025: CAL Director published a paper in Healthcare which you can access here. The study is concerned with life satisfaction, wellbeing, and perceived social support amongst Chinese older immigrants living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

June 2025: The CAL’s 2025 newsletter has been released! You can access it by clicking here

May 2025: Sophie Bhaskara has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, valued at
$15,000. Congratulations!

May 2025: Congratulations to Kesaan Kandasamy who was awarded the Jackman Foundation Psychology Graduate Student Research Excellence Grant, valued $1000!

May 2025: Congratulations to Kareena Malhotra was awarded the 2025 Summer NSERC USRA award, valued $9,325

May 2025: Congratulations to Saeeda Saadat was awarded the 2025 Summer Career Boost award, valued $9,571

May 2025: Congratulations to Litzia Mirra was awarded the F2024-W2025 Career Boost award, valued around $9,000

April 2025: Sarah Sweigman successfully completed her undergraduate honours thesis. Congratulations!

April 2025: Abinaya Kathaharan and Tris Kinder successfully completed their research practicum (PSY700). Congratulations!

April 2025: CAL Research Assistants Abinaya Kathaharan, Bahaar Najibzada, and Tris Kinder are accepted into the honours thesis stream in CAL

April 2025: CAL graduate student Kesaan Kandasamy and CAL director Dr. Lixia Yang published a paper in Psychology & Neuroscience which you can find by clicking here. This study explores how older and younger adults process distracting information differently and how this may affect their performance on a goal-oriented task. The findings provide some support for age-related declines in distraction regulation but also suggest that older adults may use distracting information to bolster their proactive control strategies. These results shed light on our understanding of cognitive health with aging.

April 2025: Research at the CAL was featured in University of Toronto’s EmpowART newsletter. You can access it by clicking here.

April 2025: Congratulations to incoming CAL graduate student, Yusuf Ghauri, on being awarded the NSERC CGS-M scholarship!

March 2025: Congratulations to the CAL director, Dr. Lixia Yang, who was awarded the Dean’s Scholarly Research and Creative Activity Award! You can find more by clicking here.

February 2025: The CAL director Dr. Lixia Yang was featured on the Faculty of Arts news page for the International Day for Women and Girls in Science. Congratulations! You can find the full story by clicking here.

January 2025: The CAL welcomes new research assistant Jennifer Preman and practicum students Tris Kinder and Abinaya Kathaharan. Welcome to the team!

August 2024: Kathryn Bolton gave a keynote address at the Centre for New Immigrant Well-being (CNIW) Research Summer Camp defence and graduation ceremony.

June 2024: Congratulations to CAL member Kathryn Bolton who was awarded the Canadian Psychological Association, Clinical Section’s Student Research Grant!

May 2024: CAL graduate student Kathryn Bolton delivered a virtual webinar to the Canadian Psychological Association, Clinical Neuropsychology Webinar Series.

May 2024: The CAL’s 2024 newsletter has been released! You can access it by clicking here.

March 2024: CAL alumna Angela Xiang was accepted in the graduate program in Counselling & Clinical Psychology at UofT OISE. Congratulations, Angela!

February 2024: Congratulations to Kesaan Kandasamy on his new position as a Predoctoral Intern in Clinical Neuropsychology at Baycrest Health Sciences! Way to go, Kesaan!

February 2024: CAL welcomes new research assistants Sofia Verduga, Francesco Martire, Reyhana Wilson, Kayla Correia, and Estel Tershana. They will be assisting Cassandra Skrotzki on her Disseration project. Welcome all!

January 2024: CAL welcomes new practicum student Matula Prabaharan and research assistants Shania Hossain and Bahaar Najibzada!

September 2023: CAL welcomes new graduate student, Julie Dicker, and undergraduate research assistant, Mary Wang!

August 2023: Congratulations to CAL graduate student Sonja Givetash for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis!

June 2023: Congratulations to CAL members Mariah Lecompte, Max Marshall, and Litzia Mirra! Mariah was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year, Max was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to pursue Clinical Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, and Litzia was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award!

June 2023: CAL graduate students Mariah Lecompte, Cassandra Skrotzki, Kesaan Kandasamy, and Kathryn Bolton delivered a virtual and in-person Active Aging Workshop through the 50+ program at Toronto Metropolitan University.

April 2023:  CAL welcomes new undergraduate thesis students, Jeseca Kyerallah, Katherine Imbat, and Michaela Perez! The lab also welcomes a new summer research assistant, Tracey Xu! Finally, CAL welcomes Ling Li, Mike Chen, and Xindi Wang, who will be supporting the Active Aging with Resilience project. Welcome all!

March 2023: New CAL study published in Aging and Health Research.

January 2023: CAL welcomes its newest research assistant, Yusuf Ghauri