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For many of us in Psychology, our labs are our “home base” where we develop our academic identities and form deep, lasting relationships. These environments are unique in that we each take on multiple simultaneous roles at any moment in time including advisor, advisee, expert, novice, friend, and confidante. As with any complex system, these environments can also give rise to unique challenges. The Healthy Labs initiative represents one effort to help meet these challenges.

The Healthy Labs initiative here in Psychology will consist of a series of “lunch and learn” events [see Events page for details] in which graduate students and faculty will have the opportunity to come together to listen to talks and discuss strategies for fostering a positive lab environment. In addition, we will collect resources from these events [see Resources page] to support this effort into the future.