Having fun with the LRCN
Life in the Language, Reading and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab isn't just about science and research. We also like to have fun and celebrate the milestones our lab members cross! Our most recent updates can be found below.
2025
Behind the scenes of the 2025 lab photoshoot!
(From left to right: Hailey Suttorp, Deanne Wah, Niki Sinha, Macey Kupfer, Sarah Hollywood)
Congratulations to Hailey for successfully defending her Master's thesis!
The LRCN lab went on a field trip to pick strawberries, and got rained on in the process. Here the (slightly soggy) lab shows off their haul.
(From left to right: Sarah Hollywood, Marc Joanisse, Niki Sinha, Hailey Suttorp, Deanne Wah, Kevin Kim, Josh Budge)
PhD candidates Deanne Wah (left) and Niki Sinha (right) found the perfect restaurant for their supervisor in Edmonton, AB during a conference trip.
2024
Behind the scenes before taking the official lab photo
(From left to right: Joshua Budge, Hailey Suttorp, Deanne Wah, Niki Sinha, Joe Nidel, & Marc Joanisse)
Some of the lab enjoying celebratory dosas after Niki and Deanne won an infograph contest
(From left to right: Niki Sinha, Deanne Wah, & Hailey Suttorp)
2023
Here, a few lab members were enjoying some downtime during a conference in Vancouver!
(From left to right: Christine Moreau, Deanne Wah, Leah Brainin)
(From front to back: Deanne Wah, Christine Moreau)
The lab also spent some time adventuring during a conference in San Francisco!
(From front to back: Deanne Wah, Christine Moreau, Hailey Suttorp)
(From left to right: Christine Moreau, Deanne Wah, Hailey Suttorp)
2019
Dr. Nicolette Armstrong will be welcoming a new addition to her family in early 2020!
(Dr. Nicolette Armstrong holds a Western University baby onesie)
LRCN celebrates the holidays at Los Lobos!
(From left to right: Chenglin Lou, Leah Brainin, Dr. Marc Joanisse, Dr. Nicolette Armstrong, Dr. Felix Desmeules-Trudel, Dr. Lien Peters, Jiangtian Li, Joe Nidel and Christine Moreau)
(Dr. Marc Joanisse enjoys his Christmas present from the lab.)
This year (2019), three graduate students successfully defended their theses. Congratulations Christine Moreau, Joe Nidel and Leah Brainin! Time for the Western University tradition: The Goblet of Knowledge!
(Christine Moreau)
(Joe Nidel)
(Leah Brainin)
2018
Congratulations to Dr. Nicolette Armstrong on successfully defending her dissertation! As is Western custom, the Goblet of Knowledge has been bestowed.
(From left to right: Dr. Marc Joanisse, Dr. Nicolette Armstrong, and Dr. Lisa Archibald)