Elizabeth Harvey studies the development of children with ADHD. The primary goal of her research is to examine the developmental trajectories of emotion regulation and associated aspects of emotion processing from age 3 to age 6 in children with clinically significant levels of ADHD symptomatology.
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Agnès Lacreuse’s research addresses the biological factors that contribute to differential aging trajectories in males and females. Because human cognition is strongly influenced by sociocultural and environmental factors, sex differences in cognitive and brain aging may be best studied in an appropriate primate model.
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Joya Misra’s work focuses on gender inequality among advanced welfare states: the locales where gender equality has made the most progress but also where national variation is now most apparent. Her research analyzes this variation over time, considering how gender inequalities have changed over the last 25 years.
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Jonathan Rosa examines the linguistic characteristics that influence culture and identity in the Latino community. The rapid rise of the U.S. Latino population, now the Nation's largest demographic Minority group, has heightened concerns about the future of American identity and brought increased attention to the institutional management of ethnolinguistic difference.
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Gwyneth Rost studies how children learn language, with a focus on youth who have language impairment, a developmental condition that can be broadly defined as clinically and educationally significant disabilities in the comprehension and use of grammar, vocabulary, literacy, and social language. Language impairment affects 7% of the general population but is prevalent in an estimated 67% of juvenile offenders.
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Lisa Troy is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and the Commonwealth Honors College Professor in Nutrition. Her research interests include the effect of overall diet quality and components of a healthful diet on under-nutrition, obesity, metabolic syndrome and risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.
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