Co-Funded Faculty
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Cynthia Bartok Assistant Professor of Kinesiology College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Human Nutrition 2003, University of Wisconsin Areas: Growth and development of children, childhood obesity, maternal-infant health, weight management Interests: Body composition assessment in children and adults, relationship between growth patterns early in life and later risk for obesity, emergence of motor control and locomotion in children, weight management in adults, sports nutrition email | biosketch | Center for Childhood Obesity Research |
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Rhonda BeLue Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Policy Analysis and Management 2001, Cornell University Areas: Epidemiology, research methods, quantitative methods Interests: Health disparities in families and children; evaluation methodology, medical decision making email | biosketch |
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Kristin Buss Associate Professor of Psychology College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Psychology 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2000-2001, Post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Areas: Emotional development and temperamental variation from birth through early childhood Interests: Emotional and temperament development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; neural, endocrine, and cardiac substrates of affect and temperament; effects of context on behavioral and physiological reactivity; emotion regulation and dysregulation of affective behaviors in the development of behavioral problems and psychopathology email | biosketch | Emotion Development Laboratory (EDL) |
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Hobart H. "Bo" Cleveland Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Family Studies and Human Development 1997, University of Arizona 1998-2000, Post-doctoral fellowship, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Areas: Adolescent development Interests: Interaction of genetic and environmental influences on adolescent and young adult risk-behaviors, including alcohol and tobacco use, aggression, and delinquency; contribution of traits to the selection and modification of social contexts email | biosketch |
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Thomas Farmer Associate Professor of Education College of Education Ph.D., Special Education 1993, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Areas: Students with disabilities; rural education Interests: Etiology and characteristics of students with disabilities; practices and research issues in the education and treatment of students with behavioral disorders; prevention and treatment of aggression and antisocial behavior; bullying and classroom social dynamics; social development of students with disabilities email | biosketch |
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Michelle Frisco Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Sociology 2001, University of Texas 2003-2005, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison Areas: Sociology of the family, social demography, population health, obesity, sociology of education Interests: The intersection of family life, education and health or health-related behavior during adolescence and early adulthood; life course analyses of the consequences of adolescent and early adult obesity for family formation, mental health and education email | biosketch | Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) |
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Lisa Gatzke-Kopp Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Psychology: Clinical Neuroscience 2003, University of Southern California 2003-2007, Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Washington (Beauchaine Lab) Areas: Child development, prevention/intervention Interests: Developmental neuroscience of externalizing psychopathology (ADHD, conduct disorder, aggression, substance use, antisocial personality disorder); the neurobiological underpinnings of disinhibition, sensation seeking, and emotion regulation in individuals spanning from age four through adulthood; environmental factors that influence the neural development of these vulnerabilities as well as the environmental factors that exacerbate risk for developing psychiatric disorders email | biosketch |
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Marianne Hillemeier Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Sociology/Population Studies 1998, University of Michigan Areas: Child and adolescent health and health care disparities, child and family health policy, public health Interests: Disparities in child and adolescent physical and mental health; effects of context on health and health-related behavior; disparities in children's health care access and utilization; provider-family interaction in health care encounters; chronic conditions among children and adolescents including asthma and obesity email | biosketch |
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Cynthia Huang-Pollock Assistant Professor of Psychology College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Psychology 2003, Michigan State University Areas: Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Interests: Cognitive and neuropsychological risk factors that contribute to the development of attention, learning, and disruptive behavior problems in school-aged-children email| biosketch |
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Kathryn Hynes Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Demography College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Sociology 2005, Cornell University 2005, Post-doctoral fellowship, Transition to Fatherhood Project, Cornell University Areas: Family studies Interests: Child and family policy topics including welfare reform, child care, after-school programs, and maternity leave; parents' work-family strategies, social and economic contexts influencing the transition to fatherhood email| biosketch | Population Research Institute |
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Derek Kreager Assistant Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Sociology 2006, University of Washington Areas: Criminology, quantitative methods, networks, life course Interests: Tests of theoretical hypotheses relating to juvenile delinquency and adolescent development--how social networks either inhibit or contribute to individual criminal behaviors; effect of rational choice theory on trajectories of adolescent behavior to ascertain whether chronic offenders exist as a distinct criminal type and identify any possible mechanisms for such a typology email | biosketch |
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Mark Leach Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography College of Agricultural Sciences Ph.D., Sociology 2007, University of California, Irvine Areas: Immigration, social demography, families and households Interests: Migration processes and immigrant incorporation (rural/urban differences), Mexican migration and settlement in new U.S. destinations, immigrant household structures and child poverty email | biosketch |
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Jeffrey Lorberbaum Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Penn State College of Medicine 1992, M.D., University of Florida, Gainesville 1992-1996, Psychiatry Residency, Stanford University Post-doctoral fellowships, Medical University of South Carolina:
Interests: Functional MRI and the brain basis of anxiety disorders and parenting behavior; functional neuroanatomy of parenting behavior/parent-infant attachment (i.e., infant crying and parental response) and basic learning mechanisms underlying anxiety disorders (i.e., anticipatory anxiety, fear conditioning, extinction, separation anxiety, including infant crying and parental response) email | biosketch |
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Linda Mason Assistant Professor of Education (Special Education) College of Education Ph.D., Special Education/Learning Disabilities 2002, University of Maryland, College Park Areas: Literacy for students with special needs; curriculum development; reading and writing instructional methods; assessment; inclusion Interests: Reading comprehension and writing; writing instruction for students with behavior disorders email | biosketch |
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Maya Misra Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Experimental Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience 2004, Tufts University 2004-2005 Post-doctoral fellowship in psychology, The Pennsylvania State University Areas: Neural correlates of language processing in different populations Interests: ERP and FMRI studies of reading and reading disorders; understanding the fundamental subskills required to attain reading proficiency; development of second language proficiency and cognitive control in bilinguals email | biosketch |
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Karen Murphy Associate Professor of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education College of Education Ph.D., Education Psychology 1998, University of Maryland Areas: Role of students' knowledge and beliefs in the comprehension of oral and written language Interests: Investigation of processes underlying students' abilities to read and understand a text, to critically examine and evaluate the information presented, and to make reasoned judgments as a result of reading; ongoing projects pertain to the role of epistemic beliefs in teaching and learning, promoting high-level comprehension through classroom discussion, and student processing of intertextual refutation email | biosketch |
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Jenae Neiderhiser Professor of Psychology College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Psychology 1994, The Pennsylvania State University 1995-1997, Post-doctoral research fellow in early developmental psychopathology, Center for Family Research, George Washington University and Children's National Medical Center Areas: Genotype-environment correlation, gene-environment interaction Interests: Understanding the interplay between genes and environment throughout the lifespan; genetic and environmental influences on interpersonal relationships-including parent-child, spouse, sibling and peer relationships; assessment of the environment within the household, interpersonal relationships, adult and child adjustment, temperament and personality and other related measures email | biosketch |
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David Puts Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Anthropology 2004, University of Pittsburgh 2004-2007, Post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience, Michigan State University (Breedlove and Jordan Lab) Areas: Evolutionary and neuroendocrine bases of human behavior, with special focus on the evolution and development of behavioral sex differences Interests: Voice: role of sexual selection on the evolution of sex differences in the human voice. Spatial cognition: effects of prenatal or early postnatal androgens on spatial ability, effects of pubertal sex hormones on spatial ability, effects of circulating sex hormones on adult spatial ability, domain specificity of female- and male-advantaged spatial abilities in order to elucidate their adaptive design. Other: developmental and evolutionary causes of differences in sexual orientation; evolutionary basis of female orgasm email | biosketch |
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Kai Schafft Assistant Professor of Education (Educational Leadership) and Rural Sociology College of Education Ph.D., Development Sociology 2003, Cornell University Areas: Community sociology, rural education, poverty and inequality, mixed research methodologies Interests: Intersection between social inequality and spatial inequality; interrelationship between poverty, housing insecurity and chronic residential mobility within rural areas and how that affects schools and school districts through student transiency; processes of participatory community development, political mobilization and social exclusion email | biosketch | Center on Rural Education and Communities |
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Robert Turrisi Professor of Biobehavioral Health College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Psychology 1988, SUNY Albany Areas: Biobehavioral health and prevention research Interests: Emerging adulthood alcohol and substance abuse; brief interventions; parenting; skin cancer prevention email | biosketch | Prevention Research Center |
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Jennifer Van Hook Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography College of the Liberal Arts Ph.D., Sociology 1996, University of Texas at Austin Areas: Immigration, social demography; demographic techniques; household/family structure; health Interests: Health and well-being of children of immigrants, assimilation and integration of immigrants; unauthorized migration, indirect estimation techniques of migration flows email | biosketch |
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Nicole Webster Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education College of Agricultural Sciences Ph.D., Extension Education with a concentration in Agricultural Extension Education 2002, Michigan State University Areas: Service learning and civic engagement, positive youth development, minority and at-risk youth, social change and activism Interests: Understanding the impact of service learning experiences on youth and young adults in school and community based settings--emphasis on service learning and outreach as an intervention tool for minority youth in marginalized low-income communities email | biosketch |
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Krista Wilkinson Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders College of Health and Human Development Ph.D., Experimental Psychology 1993, Georgia State University Areas: Developmental disabilities, language development, visual supports for communication Interests: Vocabulary acquisition and instruction for children with developmental disabilities, applications of visual cognitive neuroscience for the construction of visual communication aids |
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