EDHD is pleased to announce the hiring of three new tenure-track faculty: Dr. Donald J. Bolger, Dr. Nathan Hall, and Dr. Meredith Rowe.

The Department of Human Development is pleased to announce the hiring of three new tenure-track faculty members.

Dr. Donald J. Bolger will join the faculty in fall of 2008. Dr. Bolger received his Ph. D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and currently is an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. Dr. Bolger studies how the brain learns to read, the sources of reading skill and impairment, and how children learn the meaning of words

Dr. Nathan C. Hall will join the faculty in January of 2009. He received his Ph. D. in social psychology from the University of Manitoba and recently completed Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and the Institute for Educational Psychology at the University of Munich.

Dr. Hall studies academic control-striving and emotions in college students, and is interested in developing motivational interventions to foster students' academic development.

Dr. Meredith Rowe will join the faculty in September 2009. She received her Ph. D. in human development and psychology from Harvard University and currently is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Rowe studies early language development and parental beliefs and practices concerning children’s language. She is especially interested in the language development of underprivileged children.

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