Category: April 2025

Senior, Katie Gowan, successfully defended her Honors thesis. Katie represents our first Nutrition student in the lab who contributed to both SAGA and EAT. Her thesis focused on the relationship between diet diversity and attention to good, using eye tracking. Katie will go on to graduate school to become an...

Six undergrads from the Harrop Lab presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Celebration. Jackson, Amelia, Lucy, Abbigail, Akiah and Arisha did a great job!  

Members of the Harrop Lab attended the 2025 Gatlinburg Conference in San Diego this year. Postdoc, Dr. McFayden, presented data on friendship measures in autism. Lab coordinator, Kim Liles, presented data exploring how food avoidance and approach relate to child characteristics, such as executive functioning and repetitive behaviors. Senior, Katie...

Former research assistant, Amanda Neal (now graduate student at The University of South Alabama), led a study using data from the National Survey of Child Health characterizing parents’ experiences accessing healthcare for their autistic child. Compared to parents of autistic males, parents of autistic females were at higher risk for...