Fall 2012 Cohort
Name: Teressa Cameron Sumrall
Email: tcameron08@gmail.com
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Scott-Little
Career Plans: Academic/Professor (teaching and research)
Previous Education: Master of Arts in Child Development: Birth - Kindergarten, Administration Concentration -Appalachian State University, Boone, NC – December, 2007
· Bachelor of Science in Child Development, Psychology Minor, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC – December, 2005
Research Interests: Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education, Media Literacy and Instructional Technology in Early Childhood, Teacher and Paraprofessional Training, Mentoring and Coaching, Teacher-Child Relationships and Interactions, Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers, School Readiness
Name: Katheryn Dixson
Email: kadixson@uncg.edu
Program: MS/Ph.D
Education: B.A. in Psychology, Winthrop University 2012
Research Interest: Surrogate Grandparenting and Perceptions of Parenting
Advisor: Dr. Hunter
Career Plans: Professor (Teaching and Research)
Name: Megan Irby
Email:mirby@wakehealth.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Buehler
Career Plans: Academics, Pediatric Obesity Research
Previous Education: WFU, BS in Health and Exercise Science (2006), UNCG, MS in Exercise Physiology (2009), WFU, MS in Clinical and Population Translational Science (2012)
Research interests: Family dynamics and influence on child health and pediatric obesity
Name: Beka Pierro
Email: rchace@hotmail.com
Program: MS/Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Linda Hestenes
Career Plans: Science Education curriculum in Pre-K and science education research for preschool education
Previous Education: 1998, University of Alabama, MS in Geology, 1995, Bryn Mawr College, BS in Geology
Research interests: The effects of science education on development in young children (pre-K)
Name: Elisa Vargas
Email: eavargas@uncg.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Tudge
Career Plans: work with research, humans right, imigration, children and adolescents.
Previous Education: BA in Psychology - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil (2009); MA in Psychology - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil (2012)
Research interests: Children and adolescent development, human rights, ethnic and minority studies
Name: Danielle Wang
Email: wangdan.ivy@gmail.com
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Tudge
Career Plans: Academia/Professor
Previous Education:B.S. in Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotong University;
M.Ed. in Educational Psychology, Wayne State University
Name: Claire Wood
Email: cawood2@uncg.edu
Program: MS/Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Heather Helms and Dr. Perlman
Career Plans: Academia
Previous Education: 2011, University of Missouri -Columbia, BA in Psychology and HDFS
Research interests: Initiation and dissolution of relationships, marital processes
Name: Nan Zhou
Email: n_zhou@uncg.edu
Program: Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Buehler
Career Plans: Academic/Professor (teaching and research)
Previous Education: BS in Special Education, Beijing Normal University 2009, MS in Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University 2012
Research interests: adolescent development family function and relationship, peer and social influence
Name: ReGina Chavez
Email: regina_chavez@me.com,
Program: BKISED
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Scott-Little
Name: Cara Ruff
Email: clruff@uncg.edu
Program: BKISED
Advisor: Danielle Crosby
Previous education: Bachelors in Birth-Kindergarten from Western Carolina University
