Welcome to the Fall 2020 HDGG Newsletter!

Delivered to your inbox quarterly, we will highlight upcoming talks and events both on and off the Davis campus, recognize publications, awards and accomplishments of the Graduate Group, and provide you with updates from the broader developmental community.

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CONGRATULATIONS!

We are excited to acknowledge many great accomplishments of our HDGG members:

Below are a few recent publications and awards. Please see this link for a full listing

 

Faculty Publication Highlights

Congratulations to Dr. Jay Belsky for publishing The Origins of You!

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 Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Oakes for publishing Developmental Cascades: Building the Infant Mind!

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Two HDGG faculty members, Dr. Amanda Guyer and Dr. Adrienne Nishina, showcased their expertise in the journal Child Development Perspectives! Read here and here to learn more.

Dr. Rick Robins, Dr. Paul Hastings, Dr. Amanda Guyer and HDGG graduate Dr. Rajpreet Chahal published a study on adolescent internalizing problems.
Check here to learn more!

 

Two HDGG faculty members, Dr. Elizabeth Prado and Dr. Lisa Oakes published a new study focused on child development outcomes of having 1 egg per day in the journal of nutrition. Click here to learn more about this study!

 

Published Collaboration between Graduate Students and Advisors



Dr. Daniel Choe and graduate student Amanda Lawrence published a new study focused on Young Children's Use of Mobile Devices in JAMA pediatrics. Read here to know more about this study!

Dr. Gail Goodman and graduate student Lauren Gonzalves published a study on childhood trauma memory in the journal of  Clinical Psychological Science.  Read here to know more about this study!

Dr. Paul Hastings and graduate student Elisa Ugarte published a new study on family risk and externalizing problems in Chilean Children in the journal of Child Development. Read here to know more about this study!

Dr. Leah Hibel and graduate student Kristina Sayler published a new study on maternal distress and infant secretory immunoglobulin in the journal of Developmental Psychobiology. Read here to know more about this study. 

Dr. Peter Mundy and graduate student Jennifer Bullen published a new study on mathematics learning  in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Read here to know more about this study. 

 

Awards and Grants

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Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Choe for being selected as a Hellman Fellow, a fellowship to promote early-career scholarly growth! Read here to learn more.

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Falbe for being selected as the UC Office of the President for the Health Beverage Initiative, a program to determine the availability of drinking water and sugar-sweetened beverages on the UC Davis Campus and install, promote, and evaluate use of new drinking water stations.

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Gail Goodman for being awarded the NSF Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) to study trust and legal socialization during the COVID-19 pandemic! Read here to learn more. 

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Maciel Hernández for being selected as 2019-2020 CAMPOS faculty scholar to promote multicultural perspectives in science!  Read here to learn more. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Leah Hibel for being awarded grants to study buffers to mental and physical health impacts of COVID-19 from the Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT) Program!  

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to PhD student Elisa Ugarte for winning the UC Network on Child Health, Poverty and Public Policy Small Grant Competition!   Read here to learn more about her winning project.

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to PhD student Amanda Lawrence for being rewarded with the Henry A. Jastro Graduate Research Award, which recognizes outstanding graduate research projects and the Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant!   

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Rick Robins for receiving funds from the National Institute on Aging for investigating midlife cognitive aging in Hispanics/Latinos!   

 

 

 

 

Shout out to those accomplished graduate study milestones! 

 

Congratulations to Amanda Lawrence who passed her oral dissertation defense!

Congratulations to
Sarah Beard, Andrea Buhler, Jennifer Bullen and Mariya Chernenok, who recently passed the PhD candidate qualifying exam! 

Congratulations to
Lindsey Partington, Kristina Sayler Armstrong, Tseng Vang on completing their 2nd year research projects!

TALKS AND EVENTS FOR FALL QUARTER

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Every Thursday at noon: Researchers from the Developmental Research Community present their work at our Developmental Brown Bag.

Recent Fall quarter scheduled talks:

10/15: Andrei Cimpian, Associate Professor, NYU: The Brilliance Barrier: Stereotypes about Brilliance Are an Obstacle to Diversity in Science and Beyond

10/22:
Erica Verde, Grad Student, UCDavis: (Code-) Switching it up: exploring bilingual caregiver’s scaffolding of dual-language learning via code-switched speech to their infants

10/29:
Elizabeth Pierotti, Grad Student, UCDavis: Effects of Early Auditory Experience on Perceptual and Cognitive Processing

11/5:
Kathryn Yoo, Ph.D., UX Researcher, AnswerLab:Career transition from academia to tech

11/12:
Kristina Sayler, Grad Student, HDGG: Antecedents of Pregnancy Intention and Prenatal Father Engagement: A Dyadic and Typological Approach

12/3Jessie Burris, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, Rutgers) 

12/10:
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Professor of Psychology, Penn State University: Temperament’s Fingerprint: Electrophysiological and Attentional Markers for Socioemotional Development

 

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Exploring the Mind Lecture Series


December 4, 2020: Dr. Ian H. Gotlib, Department of Psychology, Stanford University gave a talk titled "Understanding depression: A neurodevelopmental perspective"
 

December 11, 2020: Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University gave a talk titled "Temperament's fingerprint: Electrophysiological and attentional markers for socioemotional development."
 

 

 

 

 

HDGG Chair Dr. Amanda Guyer

 

December 7, 2020: Dr. Amanda E. Guyer recently gave a talk on Brain-Based Connectivity Mechanisms Underlying Depression in Adolescent Girls at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
 

 

 

 

 

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November 20, 2020: UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit, presented by the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and the UC Davis MIND Institute.

Click here for a recording of this event!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join Us as A Faculty Member!
We are hiring an assistant professor whose research focuses on impoverished communities and neighborhood-level inequalities. Applications are due January 4th, 2021. If you are interested, check the here for more information!

Join Us as A Master or Ph.D student !
Interested in pursuing an M.S. in Child Development or Ph.D. in Human Development or know someone might be interested join our graduate program? Applications are due on December 15th, 2020. Click here for more admission information!