🥳🥳Our grad student Manu recently presented the 'Recipe for Success' project with Dr. Sharon Taverno-Ross at the 2024 Community and Public Health Conference! #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth #2024CPHC

🥳May's Lab Mascot is Sebastian!😺🐈 Meet Sebastian, the furry companion of our graduate student, Rebecca! He is almost 4 years old. He loves running down the hallways, jumping to the highest surfaces possible, and meeting new people on Zoom meetings. #lab #cat

🌟 Exciting Update from the Food For Thought Lab! 🌟 Our grad student Manu and the promotoras attended a UPMC event to recruit families for the Recipe for Success project. Interested in joining our project? Check out the flyer below for more details! #lab

The Call for Submissions for the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting is now open. The deadline for submissions is July 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Read the call here: aera.net/Events-Meeting…

🌟Exciting Update from the Food For Thought Lab! 🌟 We’ve just completed the training for the Recipe for Success project. Stay tuned for more updates! #FoodForThoughtLab #RecipeForSuccess

🎉 Meet Max, June's Lab Mascot! 😺🐈 Max is the beloved cat of our grad student, Qianjin. He will be turning three years old in July. Qianjin adopted Max after the lockdown in 2022. He is incredibly sweet and cute, and loves to sleep close to Qianjin while she works. 🥰 #cat

Enjoying Summer at Pitt! 🍃 #LabLife #Pitt #SummerVibes

#TopCitedArticle. Excited about winning the award for the top 10 most-cited papers in Child Development in 2023-2024. A big thanks to my co-authors and long-time collaborators Christina Weiland, Anna Shapiro, and Gloria Yeomans

🥳🏅Congratulations to our amazing advisor Diana Leyva and the team! We are thrilled to share that their article has been awarded as one of the top 10 most-cited papers in Child Development for 2022-2023.

🥳Our grad student Rebecca recently attended the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS) conference in Washington, DC, where she presented a talk on a longitudinal study of parent-child math talk during our MM4M family math intervention. #lab #MCLS

Exciting News from Food for Thought! 🎉 Dr. Leyva Diana Leyva presented our Literacy Eats project at the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) conference in Prague. 📚✨ #IASCL2024 #ChildLanguage #LiteracyEats #ResearchImpact

📢 New Paper Alert! Our latest publication in the Journal of Early Childhood Research Quarterly reveals that food sharing, but not food-related household chores, positively impacts children's literacy skills beyond traditional literacy and numeracy activities. #Research #lab

Project Update! 🎉 Dr. Leyva received a grant from Pitt's Learning Research & Development Center to co-develop and pilot a family program, Ingredients 4 Learning (I4L), aimed at enhancing Latino children’s science and literacy skills through everyday family food routines.

📢 We're still recruiting families for our Recipe for Success project! 🍽️ If you're interested in participating, don't hesitate to reach out to us! We'd love to hear from you! 💬 #Latinofamilies #lab #research

✨ Exciting news! Dr. Diana Leyva (Diana Leyva) has won a new NSF grant in collaboration with Dr. Melissa Libertus from Pitt! 🎉 They will develop and test the efficacy of two family math programs tailored to individual family routines, specifically targeting Latino families.

🥳Lab gathering!

🌟 Exciting News from Food for Thought! 🌟 We’re thrilled to welcome our new post-doctoral researcher, Maria (left), who is joining the Ingredients for Learning project, and our new Research Assistant, Lily (right), who is joining the Literacy Eats project! 🎉 #WelcomeAboard

🎉 Exciting news! Congratulations to our graduate student Rebecca (pictured left) on receiving the Merle Moskowitz Teaching Award! 🌟 We’re so proud of you! #Achievement #TeachingExcellence #ProudMoment

🌟 Exciting News from Food for Thought! 📷 We’re thrilled to welcome our new Research Assistants joining the Recipe for Success project!! 📷#WelcomeAboard

I am recruiting a 2 year postdoc to join my lab at UCSD! See elc-lab-ucsd.com/prospective-po… for details.