Sample Graduate Student Work

The Georgetown University graduate program in Developmental Science strongly encourages its students to pursue opportunities for professional development.  The graduate students in the Psychology department are actively involved in grant writing, teaching, presenting, and collaborating both within and outside the department.  Their work has been presented at the discipline's leading conferences and published in premier journals.  Below is a sample of professional accomplishments achieved by current graduate students in the program.

Graduate Student Publications

Woolard, J.L., Harvell, S. & Graham, S. (2008). Anticipatory injustice among adolescents: Age and Racial/Ethnic differences in perceived unfairness in the justice system. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26, p.1-20.

Anton, S.D., Exner, A., Newton, R. L. (2008). Intentions are not sufficient to change behavior: strategies that promote behavior change and healthy weight management. In F. Columbus (Ed.), New Perspectives on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Health. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Lee, N. (in press). Perpetuating hierarchies: Lay-women's discursive practices in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Culture & Psychology.

Barnes, K. A. & Dougherty, M. R. (2007).  The effects of divided attention on global judgments of learning.  American Journal of Psychology, 120, 347 – 359.

Bennett, I. J., Howard, J. H., & Howard, D. V.  (2007).  Age-related differences in implicit learning of subtle third-order sequential structure.  Journal of Gerontology, 62B, 98-103.

Lowenstein, A. E. (2007). Professional development. In R. S. New & M. Cochran (Eds.), Early childhood education: An international encyclopedia (Vol. 3, pp. 658-662). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Barnes, K. A., Kaplan, L. A., & Vaidya, C. J. (2007). Developmental differences in cognitive control of socio-affective processing.  Developmental Neuropsychology, 32, 787-807.

Woolard, J. L., Odgers, C., Lanza-Kaduce, L., & Daglis, H.  (2005). Juveniles within adult correctional settings: legal pathways and developmental considerations.  International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 4, 1-18.

Graduate Student Conference Posters/Presentations

Harvell, S. S. (2008, March). The impact of authority interactions on youth behavior and legal socialization: Does procedural justice affect juvenile offenders? In J.L. Woolard (Chair), Process matters: The importance of procedural justice and therapeutic jurisprudence for juvenile offenders. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Jacksonville, FL.

Daglis, H., Woolard, J. L., & Harvell, S.S. (2008, March).  Police interviewing and interrogation of juvenile suspects in custodial and non-custodial settings.  In J. L. Woolard (chair), A developmental approach to juvenile interrogation: perspectives from parents, cops, kids, and prosecutors.  Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Jacksonville, FL.

Barnes, K. A., Foss-Feig, J., Shook, D., Howard, J. H. Jr., Howard, D.V., Kenealy, L., & Vaidya, C. J. Impaired implicit sequence learning but not spatial contextual learning in childhood ADHD.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 2007.

Stollstorff, M., Foss-Feig, J., Cook, E., Kenealy, L., Stein, M., & Vaidya, C.J. (2007, May). Effect of dopamine transporter genotype and methylphenidate on working memory in childhood ADHD: A pharmacological fMRI study.  Paper presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Bennett, I.J., Howard, J.H., Jr., Howard, D.V. (2007). Reading ability and implicit learning in healthy older adults. Cognitive Aging Conference Oral Presentation. Adelaide, South Australia.

Phillips, D., Gormley, W. T., & Lowenstein, A. (2007, March). Classroom quality and time allocation in Tulsa’s early childhood programs. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Corrington, M., Gormley, W., & Phillips, D. (2007, November). Gender differences in the effects of the Tulsa Pre-K Program.  Poster presented at the Association for Pubic Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Washington, DC.

Stollstorff, M., Foss-Feig, J., Shook, D., Cook, E.T., Kenealy, L., Stein, M.E. & Vaidya, C.J. (November, 2007). Effects of dopamine transporter genotype and methylphendiate on sustained attention in childhood ADHD: A pharmacological fMRI study.  Slide presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.

Barnes, K. A., Benner, M. E., Della Rosa, A., Lee, P. S., Howard, J. H., Jr., Howard, D. V., Gaillard, W. D., Kenworthy, L., & Vaidya, C. J. Neural basis of probabilistic sequence learning in childhood ASD: An fMRI study. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, November 2007.

Daglis, H., & Woolard, J.  (2006, March).  Individual and family predictors of youth attitudes toward police.  In J.L. Woolard (chair), Police interrogation of juvenile suspects.  Paper presented at the biennial conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.

Harvell, S. & Woolard, J. (2006, March). Who makes the call: Attorney reports of decision-making with juvenile clients and their parents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.

Zack, E., O'Brien, E., Barr, R., Schroff, G., Miller, S., & Gerhardstein, P. (2006, October). Imitation from 2D images and 3D objects by 9- and 15-month-olds. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Atlanta, GA.

Graduate Student Awards/Fellowships

Kelly Barnes was awarded a non-service Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for the coming year which will enable her to devote full time to her research during her last year.

Ilana Bennett was awarded an NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute on Aging which will support her during her final two years of study.  The title of her grant is "Aging, implicit learning, and white matter integrity."

Devon Brost Oskvig was awarded a Center for Brain Based Cognition Graduate Student Seed Grant to promote cross-campus, interdisciplinary research in June 2007.

Amanda Exner was selected as one of five University Fellows in 2007.  She also received the Omicron Delta Kappa Foundation Scholarship to fund her graduate studies.

Amy Lowenstein was awarded a two-year Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant by the Administration for Children and Families in September 2007.  The grant will support her dissertation research on the effects of the universal pre-kindergarten and Head Start programs in Oklahoma on low-income children’s socio-emotional adjustment.

The following students received Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants in 2007:

• Kelly Barnes
• Hayley Daglis

Undergraduate Seminars Taught by Fourth-Year Graduate Students

Adolescent Development and Law (Samantha Harvell)
Experimental Approaches to Understanding the Mind (Kelly Barnes)
The Aging Mind and Brain (Ilana Bennett)
Culture, Mind, and Language (Naomi Lee)
Seminar in Neuroscience (Devon Brost Oskvig)
Infancy (Elizabeth Zack)
Juvenile Justice and Violence (Hayley Daglis Cleary)