Event Photos

After many Zoom calls, the teaching team for the first MLD-301 class taught online were finally able to meet in person in late May 2021. Professor Lerner hosted (from left) Chelsea Zabel, Molly Moore, Sarah Kovar, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, and Klara Kabadian.

Congratulations to lab member Charlie Dorison (top left) who successfully defended his dissertation via virtual meeting in April 2020. Also pictured: Professor Jenn Lerner (top right), Professor Julia Minson (bottom left) and Professor Todd Rogers (bottom right).

Congratulations to Lab member and US Air Force Major Chris Umphres (lower right) who successfully defended his dissertation via virtual meeting in April 2020. Also pictured: Professor Josh Kertzer (top left), Professor Jenn Lerner (top right) and Professor Julia Minson (bottom left).

University of Michigan Professor John Jonides, a beloved mentor to Professor Jenn Lerner and Lab Manager Chelsea Zabel, visited Harvard to give the Mind Brain Behavior Initiative’s keynote address in November of 2019.

In 2019, Professor Lerner received the Raymond Vernon Commemorative Award for outstanding mentorship of junior faculty members.

Congratulations to lab member and US Air Force Major Brad DeWees (middle) who successfully defended his dissertation via virtual meeting in May 2019. Also pictured: Professor Leslie John (far left), Professor Julia Minson (on screen) and Professor Jenn Lerner (far right). (Small benefit of virtual defenses: we realized for the first time that we should take pictures at defenses!)

In 2018, Professor Lerner visited the USS Spruance, a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Secretary of the Navy Advisory Board 2017, The Pentagon. Pictured (from left): Vice Admiral (ret.) William Bowes, Dr. James Bellingham, Mr. George Nolfi, Admiral (ret.) William Studeman, Secretary (ret.) of the Navy Raymond Mabus, Professor Jennifer Lerner, Dr. Jerrold Green, The Honorable Brad Carson, Professor and Vice President Jay Walsh, and Professor C.C. Felker.

Professor Lerner moderates a panel at the Behavioral Science and Policy Association Annual Conference, 2017. Also pictured (from left): Colonel Richard E. Angle, Vice Admiral Herman Shelanksi, Ms. Christy Nolta, and Captain Brad DeWees.

The late Congressman John Lewis spoke at an event hosted by Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership (April 2017) and generously took time to meet with faculty.