Fall 2008 Cohort
- Name: Joy Cecil
- Email: jececil@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: B.S. Human Development and Family Studies from UNCG.
- Program of Study: MS
- Research interests: women's development within familial relationships throughout different cultures, developmental differences between genders in families, and how familial relationships affect children's development.
- Dr. Mary Morgan
- Name: Laura Simone
- Email: lesimone@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA; B.S. in Special Education and Elementary Education
- Program of Study: MS
- Research interests: Cognitive development, emotion regulation, public policy, and children with special needs
- Dr. Danielle Crosby
- Name: Abigaiel Fetalvero
- Email: abigaiel.fetalvero@yahoo.com.ph
- Previous Education: BS Social Work from the University of the Philippines-Diliman
- Program of Study: MS
- Research interests: Impact of Welfare Interventions to child development
- Dr. Danielle Crosby
- Name: Tasia Smith
- Email: tmsmith4@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. BA in Psychology and Sociology
- Program of Study: MS
- Research interests: adolescent resiliency in single-parent homes; cultural influences on adolescent development
- Dr. Stephanie Coard
- Name: Nicole Brown
- Email: nebrown3@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; B.S. in Psychology, Minor in child development and family studies
- Program of Study: MS/Phd
- Research interests: Social emotional development of infants and young children within the context of school and family; academic readiness; using research to inform public and social policy.
- Dr. Susan Calkins
- Name: Pooja Vadehra
- Email: p_vadehr@uncg.edu
- Previous Education:Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India. B.Sc in Child Development (2004)
Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India. M.Sc in Child Development with concentration in Children with Special Needs (2006)
- Program of Study: MS/Phd
- Research interests: Influence of social and cultural contexts on child development, parental beliefs and its influence on child rearing practices, dyadic interaction between cognition and culture and its effect on development.
- Dr. Jonathan Tudge
- Name: Sarah Wingerter
- Email:swinger@uncg.edu
- Previous Education:BS Psychology, Child and Adolescent Development
- Program of Study: Med/BKISED
- Research interests: Family/parent education, general development birth-5, teaching
- Dr. Karen Laparo
- Name: Jessica Gudmundson
- Email: jagudmun@uncg.edu
- Previous Education:BA in Psychology, 2004 University of Miami; Coral Gables, FL
MS in Child Development, 2008 Erikson Institute; Chicago, IL
- Program of Study: Phd
- Research interests: Social and emotional development of children 0-3 within the context of the family relationship; how attachment and temperament influences lifespan development; using research to inform public and social policy; cross-cultural research.
- Dr. Esther Leerkes
- Name: Nina Smith
- Email: n_smith@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: B.A. in psychology-Spelman College; M.A. in psychology-North Carolina Central University
- Program of Study: PhD
- Research interests : Early childhood development; Childcare quality; Parental perceptions of childcare quality
- Dr. Deborah Cassidy
- Name: Susanne Fuller
- Email: s_fuller@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: Bachelor of Science Birth-Kindergarten Special Education from Union University
- Program of Study: Med/BKISED
- Dr. Deb Cassidy
- Name: Lauren Kirchner
- Email: lakoh9@gmail.com
- Previous Education: The University of Georgia; Athens, GA; BSFCS- Child and Family Development
- Program of Study: FLPE
- Research interests : Grandparents raising grandchildren; nutrition through the lifespan; parenting young children
- Name: Amy Jobe
- Email: ajjobe@uncg.edu
- Previous Education: BS in Pscyhology and Child and Family studies from Greensboro College
- Program of Study: M.ed/BK-ISED
- Research interests : children Birth- age 5
- Name: Patty Learman
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- Program of Study: M.ed/BK-ISED
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- Name: Ashli Osteen
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- Program of Study: M.ed/BK-ISED
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