April Pereira, PhD in Psychology

For the Winter of 2024, April Pereira will be travelling to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign to collaborate with Dr. Wendy Rogers on a project that closely aligns with her research program at the University of Waterloo. April’s research focuses on cognitive aging and distributed memory across humans and external agents. She will be advancing their research skills and knowledge by studying how older adults distribute their memory with an external agent, more specifically, a domestic robot. Owing to Dr. Wendy Rogers’s vast knowledge and expertise in her field, April will be subject to novel methodologies in both behavioural and engineering research domains. In working with her and her team, this research experience will allow April to build her skillset and make valuable professional connections.

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Graduate Student International Experience award funds are available to University of Waterloo graduate students who participate in:

• an academic exchange
• a study term abroad related to research or an academic requirement
• work, or volunteer experience in another country.