Affiliated Faculty

Risk behaviors in adolescents, developmental issues, risk and protective factors associated with behavior trajectories and health outcomes, parenting, health disparities, interdisciplinary research, intervention research, health systems research, analysis of existing data, community-based research

Growth and Development Throughout the Lifespan and Family-Centered Care; Obstetrics (Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, High-Risk Pregnancies, Women’s Care, and Newborn Nursery); Pediatric Experiences (Neurology, Cardiac, and Endocrine)

Assessment of Leadership and Learning Needs/Styles; Innovative Teaching Strategies for Millennial Generation Nursing Students; Health Assessment; Fundamentals of Nursing; Pharmacology for Nursing Practice

Health Disparities in Rural and Underserved Populations; Childhood Obesity; Diabetes; Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Innovative Teaching Strategies

Sexual and Reproductive Health Education; Risk Taking Behaviors; STI Prevention,; HPV Vaccination

Social-Emotional Development; Gender Differences in Science and Math Education Experiences; Adolescent Risk Behaviors; Children’s Decision Making Skills; Education Contexts; Neurocognitive Development in Young Children

Gene Function; Diseases of the Nervous System; Gene and Drug Discovery to Advance Therapeutic Development

Executive Functioning; Emotion Regulation; Self-referential Processing; Computational Modeling; Neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI); Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (anxiety, depression, conduct problems/callous-unemotional traits)

Early Life Adversity; Cardiovascular Disease Risk; Close Relationships; Health;Cardiovascular Psychophysiology; Sleep Assessment (Self-Report, Behavior, EEG); Stress Assessment; Multilevel Modeling/Dyadic Data Analysis; Cellular Aging​

Socioeconomic Status; Stress; Health; Social Relationships; Cardiovascular Risk; Interpersonal Behavior; Dominance;Health Disparities; Latent Mixture Modeling; Meta-Analysis

Culture; Child Social Ecology; Psychophysiology; Stress and Health; Multi-Generational Approaches; Qualitative Data Analysis; MLM; Adrenocortical Assessment; Autonomic Assessment; Daily Experience Tracking (e.g., ESM, Diaries, Actigraphy)

Animal Behavior; Behavioral Variation Among Individuals of a Population; Neurobiology; Gene Expression; Metabolism; Hormones

Self-control; emotion regulation; attention; mental effort and fatigue; motivation; electrophysiology (EEG/ERPs)​

ADHD; Attention; Anxiety; Neuropsychology; Intervention; Children; Child Psychopathology; Child Intervention; Child Assessment

HIV Stigma; Social Determinants of Mortgage Foreclosure

ASD; ADHD; Visual Cognition; Sensory Perception; Complex Systems Approach to Brain Disorders; Neural Response to Interventions; Network Modeling; Complex Systems Modeling; EEG (Frequency-Domain, Microstate, and Network Analyses); fMRI (Includig Resting State and Network Analysis); Machine Learning; Language (Including Sign Language and Bilingualism)

Peer Relationships; Aggression; Social Cognition; Emotion Regulation; Latent Class Models

Bullying; Health and Wellness; Children’s Experiences and Adjustments with Friends and Other Peers; Bullying Reduction 

Quantitative Genetics; Population Genetics; Drosophila Model for Metabolic Syndrome; Evolutionary Genetics of Speciation

Neighborhood Effects; Criminal Victimization; Fear of Crime; Immigration and Crime; Analytical Expertise in Multilevel Modeling; Longitudinal Analyses; Hard to Sample Populations; Managing Longitudinal Data Collection

Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty; Assessment of Intellectual Disability in Atkins Cases; Forensic Assessment with Offenders with Intellectual Disability; Mitigation in Death Penalty Cases; Perceptions of Individuals with Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System

Psychopathy; Callous Unemotional Traits; Treatment of Psychopathy; Treatment of Interpersonal Callousness

ASD; Risk and Protective Factors for Family Members of Children with ASD; Developmental Disabilities; Outreach and Service Delivery to Low-Resource Families

Objectivity; Belief Systems and Motivated Cognition; Research Practices and Meta-Science

Measurement and assessment issues for individuals with ASD; educational experiences and outcomes of individuals with disabilities; item response theory models; comparison of ROC curves to data from special populations

Intervention; Prevention; Academic success of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD)

Disabilities; Vocational Rehabilitation; Wellbeing; Career Development; Behavioral Activation

Low Current Brain Stimulation to increase Statistical Calculations; Use of Low Current Brain Stimulation to Study the Effect of Ethical Decision Making

Use of digital technologies to support students with disabilities; Computing science, coding, and media literacy for special populations; Digital innovations to support reading and writing; Teacher professional development

Applied Behavioral Analysis; Youth Behavior; Special Education

Educational Measurement; Individual Differences; Cognitive Abilities and Intelligence; Advanced Academics; Gifted Education; Student Motivation for Learning; Career Identity Formation 

Early intervention (birth to age 6), specifically models of service delivery, working with families, and child engagement

Digital game-based learning; Inclusive and immersive e-learning design;  Multimodal learning analytics; Adaptive learning system design; Computer science & Artificial intelligence education (computational thinking)

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support; Response to Intervention; Systems-Level Consultation; Teacher Teams and Data-Based Decision Making

Underlying brain mechanisms explaining the effect of affective factors (i.e. math attitudes) on math performance, and how they interact with cognitive or social factors.

School safety, school mental health, cognitive-behavioral therapy. 

Moral Psychology; Creation and Validation of Psychometrics in Social/Moral Domain

Computer Science Education; College Preparation in STEM Fields; Robotics; Software Modeling; Domain Specific Languages; Mobile Computing

Traffic Safety; Risky Driving; Drunk Driving; Aggressive Driving;Transportation Planning; Transportation Engineering; International Development

Adolescent and Emerging Adult Peer Relationships; Peer Group Play; Aggression and Bullying

Preschool Children; Obesity; Mindful Eating; Weight Loss Interventions; Dietary Intake

Parenting; Adolescence; Parent-Child Relationships; Delinquency; Monitoring; Peer Relations; Longitudinal Methods; SEM; Discrepancies; Difference Scores

Sexual violence prevention and intervention. Sexual consent and refusal communication. Substance use and alcohol research. Mixed method researcher and trained in alcohol administration and including experimental paradigms in research projects.

Children’s Language Development; Social Learning; Moral Cognition

Substance Abuse Prevention; Alcohol Assessment and Measurement; Internet-Based Interventions

Adolescent Development; Social Anxiety; Substance Use; Conflict in Families; Parent-Adolescent Relationships; Physiological Stress Reactivity;Parent-Adolescent Conflict; Interparental Conflict; Structural Equation Modeling; Latent Profile/Class Analyses; Meta-Analysis​

Interpersonal Violence; Dating Violence; Sexual Assault; Trauma; Substance Use; Prevention; Treatment

Hard-to-Reach Populations and Factors that Affect Them; Large Longitudinal Data Sets

Health Disparities; Communication; Social Support; Online Communities; Computational Methods; Large Scale Web Data; Health Misinformation; Population Health

Children and Media; Advertising to Families; Advertising Literacy; Selfies; Nontraditional Advertising; Advertising History

Interpersonal Communication; Personal Relationships; Relationship Dissolution; Emerging Technology; Social Media; Mobile Dating Applications; Research Methods; Mixed Methodology

Communication; Relationships; Coping; Social Support; Personal Networks; Surveys; Observations; Conversation Analysis; Regression Modeling; Qualitative Analysis

Violence Prevention; Student Mental Health; Physician Mental Health

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Related to Cancer and Other Health Issues that Impact Rural Areas

Adolescent Latinas; Health Disparities; Sexual Health; Health Care Access & US South; Qualitative Methods; Program Evaluation; Community-Based Participatory Research

Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Incarcerated Adolescents; Paranoid Spectrum Disorders; Mental Retardation and Mental Health Consultation to Primary Care Physicians and Underserved Geographical Locations; Use of Telemedicine in Education and Clinical Service

Community Medicine; Health Disparities; Population Health; Health Disparities in Rural Children; Medicaid Innovation

Management of Working on Womanhood Program (WOW); Inpatient and Outpatient Programs for Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities

Child Welfare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Implementation Science; International Social Work; Violence Against Women and Children

“Youth Aging Out”; Disability Issues Among Youth in Care; Understandings of Disability in Social Welfare Service Provision; Attitudes Toward Disability (Measurement Validation); Transitions to Adulthood Among Youth with Disabilities

Evidence-Based Practice; School Climate; Social Work Services in School

Child Welfare; Field Education; Foster Care; Social Work Online Education

Interconnection of Neuroscience; Adolescent Development; Trauma Among Justice-Involved Youth

Child Welfare Policy and Services; Organizational and Policy Contexts of Practice; Policy and Service Disparities

Children and Youth; Mental Health; Substance Abuse