Post-doctoral Fellows . For over 15 years, we have had a very lively post-doctoral training program within Developmental Psychology. The presence of these post-doctoral people enriches the graduate training program immensely by providing other areas of expertise, research consultation, role models, and general support for the research enterprise. Graduate students may collaborate with post-doctoral fellows. In addition, these fellows give lectures, and in certain cases mini-courses, in their own specialty, which broadens the content of our offerings.
Postdoctoral fellows can also serve on graduate student thesis committees.
Research Groups . The entire developmental area, including faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, meet once a week for a brown-bag lunch at which members within the area present their research, or outside speakers are invited to discuss their work. In addition, most faculty members have ongoing research groups that include graduate and post-graduate trainees. The group typically meets weekly to discuss a particular faculty, postdoctoral or graduate trainee research project, review pertinent literature, discuss recent theoretical or methodological contributions, etc. These other areas offer a variety of seminars in developmental psychopathology, developmental neuropsychology, adult social psychology, cognitive psychology, memory, and reading comprehension, as well as a number of courses on methodology and data-analytic techniques.