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Developmental

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Faculty

Kristin Buss, Ph.D.

  • Psychology Department Head
  • Tracy Winfree and Ted H. McCourtney Professor in Children, Work, and Families and Professor of Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies
  • Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

kbuss@psu.edu

Katharine Donnelly Adams

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-7360

kda11@psu.edu

Rina D. Eiden, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology; Consortium for Combating Substance Abuse. Associate Editor of Child Development.
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-7767

rde5106@psu.edu

Rick Gilmore, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology
  • Pronouns: he/him/his

(814) 865-3664

rog1@psu.edu

Lynn Liben, Ph.D.

  • Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies, and Education
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-1718

liben@psu.edu

Erika Lunkenheimer, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology
  • Associate Director of Education, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
  • Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-1991

ezl5238@psu.edu

Sarah Myruski, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Research Professor
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

sfm6016@psu.edu

Jenae Neiderhiser, Ph.D.

  • Associate Department Head for Research,
  • Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
  • Human Development and Family Studies
  • Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-4818

jenaemn@psu.edu

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Ph.D.

  • McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9272

kxp24@psu.edu

Suzy Scherf, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-2921

suzyscherf@psu.edu

Janet van Hell, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
  • Co-Director of the Center for Language Science
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-2337

jgv3@psu.edu

Dawn Witherspoon, Ph.D.

  • McCourtney Family Early Career Professor in Psychology; Associate Professor, Developmental Area
  • Accepting graduate students for fall 2022
  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-3112

dpw14@psu.edu

Graduate Students

Dzifa Adjei

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-2352

dqa5370@psu.edu

Myles Arrington

  • Pronouns: he/him/his

mna41@psu.edu

Kayla Brown

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 863-5674

kwb5191@psu.edu

Tong Chen

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-1725

tuc548@psu.edu

Briah Glover

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

bag5694@psu.edu

Miglena Ivanova

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-6902

myi5069@psu.edu

Madison Kelm

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-6902

mrk5763@psu.edu

Marisa Lytle

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

m.n.lytle@psu.edu

Austen Trainer

  • Pronouns: they/them/theirs

(814) 865-9358

att64@psu.edu

Nora Tucker

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9358

nat5288@psu.edu

Alicia Vallorani

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 865-9514

auv27@psu.edu

Chia-li Yu

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

(814) 867-1388

cqy5287@psu.edu

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