- Candise Lin, doctoral candidate in the Human Development program has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. November 2012
- The following HDQM Faculty received recognition for their outstanding achievements: Patricia A. Alexander (Regents Faculty Award for Mentoring); Ann A. Battle (COE Distinguished Outreach Award); Gregory Hancock (COE Distinguished Scholarship Award); Melanie Killen (Director of Graduate Studies of the Year Award); Andre Rupp (AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Research Methodology Award); and both Natasha Cabrera and Meredith Rowe (ADVANCE Award). Summer 2012
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EDHD Developmental Science Research Areas
Faculty in the Developmental Science specialization study a broad array of research areas crucial to the understanding of children's learning and development. Topics investigated include:
- Achievement motivation
- Aggression and delinquency
- Civic engagement
- Cognitive development
- Culture and context
- Development of at-risk children
- Developmental neuroscience
- Developmental psychopathology
- Early childhood education
- Emotional development
- Exclusion and inclusion
- Fatherhood
- Head Start
- Intergroup attitudes and relationships
- Language acquisition
- Language and literacy
- Mathematical reasoning
- Memory development
- Mixed methods research
- Moral reasoning
- Neuroscience and reading
- Parent-child relationships
- Peer relationships
- Prevention research and program evaluation
- Research and public policy
- Prejudice in childhood
- Self-concept
- Social cognition
- Social competence
- Social development
- Social motivation
- Social neuroscience
- Social-political cognition
- Social withdrawal and shyness
- Student-teacher relationships
- Temperament and personality development
