This story is published in YFile’s New Faces feature issue 2025. Every September, YFile introduces and welcomes those joining the York University community.
Glendon College welcomes two new full-time, permanent members this fall.
"Glendon College is pleased to announce the appointment of two new faculty members to the Department of Science, effective July 1, 2025. Those appointments are supported by Connected Minds, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund," says Glendon Principal Marco Fiola. "We are very excited about the arrival of those two colleagues, who will continue to enrich the depth and breadth of our psychology programming at Glendon, contribute to the intellectual life of the campus and support our research development."
Hannah Tarder-Stoll
Tarder-Stoll joins Glendon College as an assistant professor in psychology, specializing in cognitive neuroscience. Her research investigates how memories are formed and used to guide adaptive behaviour.
She is particularly interested in how we build knowledge about the world to support flexible, goal-directed behaviour. She also aims to understand how different types of memory – such as episodic and schematic memories – interact to guide everyday cognition and transform over time into durable internal models. Her work combines behavioural experiments with neuroimaging (MRI, MEG), immersive virtual reality and computational tools to study memory in naturalistic contexts.
Tarder-Stoll earned her PhD from Columbia University and completed postdoctoral training at the Rotman Research Institute.
Nina Wang
Wang joins Glendon College as an assistant professor in psychology. Their research centers around misinformation, political polarization and how these phenomena play out in online environments and discourse.
Their work leverages techniques from computational social science in combination with experimental methods from social psychology. They are particularly interested in how emotion and moralization affect spreading and believing misinformative and polarizing content and in turn fuel polarized attitudes and extremist behaviours, and how the incentives of social media platforms shape our information ecosystems.
Wang obtained their doctorate from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University.