Biobehavioral Development Lab at Purdue

Lab photo!

A huge congrats to BDL grad students Claire Rosenberger, who won the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) Outstanding Masters Student award, and Amy Loviska, who won the HHS Hero award! So proud of you!

Amazing job to our grad students Jennifer, Muskan, and Claire on their posters at the Society for Research on Child Development conference last week in Minneapolis!!

One of the new grants led by the BDL!

🔔 BIG NEWS! 🔔

HDFS faculty members (Kelsie Muller, Shelley MacDermid-Wadsworth, Cezanne Elias, and Kristine Marceau) have partnered with Purdue Extension Educators to support families’ well-being in the aftermath of natural disasters with funding provided by the USDA/NIFA Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program.

After a relatively brief initial response to families’ well-being in the immediate aftermath of disaster (e.g., mental health first aid programs), there is little continued support despite families often remaining in uncertain and stressful situations (e.g., temporary housing, without a clear picture of what their “new normal” is). There is a pressing need for programs to support families in building resilience skills in the weeks and months after disasters to reduce the mental health problems and negative impacts on parents and children.

Congrats to this group on an outstanding achievement!👏

🔗 Learn more about their work: https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1032876-supporting-family-resilience-in-the-aftermath-of-disasters.html

🥰 our lab!

Photo credit Margaret Martin, edited by Sohee Lee. 😁 Thank you,!

SO proud of Dr. Olivia Robertson who wrote an incredible dissertation examining the co-development of body mass index, puberty, internalizing problems. She used 2 different kinds of family-based studies and even developed a brand new statistical model to improve our ability to tell if correlations typically found in other studies might actually be casual. AMAZING WORK Olivia! Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations 🎉 to Gina Canino-Quiñones, who received a Bob L. and Joyce Beery Miles Undergraduate Research Enhancement Award from the Center for Family at Purdue this morning! We're so excited for the awesome work you're doing to understand how stress hormones and parent-child relationships develop and change during puberty!

Check out our upcoming student presentations at the Society for Research on Child Development in Salt Lake City, Utah!

Thanks Amy Loviska for the graphic!

🎉 Congratulations to Kristine Marceau, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, on receiving a 2022 Teaching Leadership Award from the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University!

Here's to another great year! I'm so proud of how much we all learned and accomplished! We'll miss you Julia and Kaetlyn... but we know you'll do amazing things! Thanks for sharing your time and energy with us!!!