THHP Student Juliet Weschke's Recent Achievements

We congratulate THHP student Juliet Weschke (majoring in Clinical Psychology) on winning the the Gerry Turkewitz Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to students at Hunter College who have demonstrated academic excellence and are committed to pursuing a PhD in Psychology. The students who are awarded the scholarship are expected to actively engage in research that contributes to the understanding of developmental processes and adaptive behaviors.

Juliet has also won the Livingston Welch Service Award. This award recognizes outstanding service to the Psychology Department at Hunter College. Recipients are selected based on their significant contributions to departmental activities, including organizing events and participating in initiatives that enhance the educational environment. The award highlights students who have excelled academically and shown a strong commitment to the psychology community​.

Juliet has also received Distinction and Honors in Psychology, awarded to students who have completed an honors project, demonstrating advanced understanding and research capabilities in Psychology.

In addition, Juliet will be interning as a Research Assistant at two prestigious labs at Yale University in the summer. In the Social Cognitive Development Lab under Dr. Yarrow Dunham, she will investigate how reputational concerns influence children's punishment behaviors. Her responsibilities will include designing studies using Qualtrics, conducting literature reviews, collecting and coding data, and performing data analysis to better understand children's social cognitive development. Concurrently, she will work in the Computational Social Cognition Lab with Dr. Julian Jara-Ettinger. She will focus on children's theory of mind, particularly their understanding of mental state changes and the relationship between seeing and knowing. Her tasks will involve designing experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and studying the cognitive processes underlying children's social interactions.

We congratulate Juliet again and wish her the best for her future endeavors.