By: Dr. Mathieu E. Wimmer and Hannah Mayberry
Edited by Dr. Charlotte Bavley

Dr. Susanna Nemes is an accomplished executive, researcher, and clinician with 30 years of experience working with underserved populations. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Harvard University and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. While at Temple, she studied with Dr. Thomas E.

Billy Mitchell is a second-year doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience program at Temple. Under the guidance of Dr. Chelsea Helion, he works in the Social & Affective Neuroscience Lab, which studies the neural and psychological underpinnings of self-regulation processes to gain insight towards the factors that may govern adaptive or dysfunctional perceptions, judgments, and habits. Billy is interested in researching neural representations of emotion and emotion regulation tendencies, as well as the regulation of social behavior and moral judgments.

In addition to being an Honors student, George Emory is a junior Psychology major with a minor in Statistics and Data Science. Under the guidance of Dr. Deborah Drabick, he is a Research Assistant in the Child Health and Behavior Lab. George assists with conducting literature searches, data analysis, creating project materials, and problem-solving in research protocol development. One aspect of the lab’s work is the Coping Power program, which evaluates potential treatment moderators of an intervention for youth with conduct problems.

By: David Waxler, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Psychology Department