CORE MEMBERS
Elena Grigorenko
Dr. Elena L. Grigorenko received her Ph.D. in general psychology from Moscow State University, Russia, in 1990 and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology and genetics from Yale University in 1996. Currently, Dr. Grigorenko is Associate Professor of Child Studies and Psychology at Yale and Associate Professor of Psychology at Moscow State University.
Dr. Grigorenko’s primary interest is in understanding the co-contribution of genetic and environmental risk factors to the manifestation of developmental and learning disabilities in children. She is especially interested in how children with special needs, such as those infected with intestinal parasites or diagnosed with autism, succeed by capitalizing on their strengths. Her work in this area has contributed to the field’s general understanding of the flexibility and malleability of human development. Dr. Grigorenko’s use of diverse methodologies, ranging from molecular genetics to cultural studies, enriches the field and provides more opportunities for understanding how children grow and mature. These methodologies include family designs (both behavioral and molecular-genetic) and educational intervention designs. To illustrate, her ongoing studies include research on international adoptees brought to the U.S. early in life; a study of rates of learning disabilities in harsh developmental environments with high rates of illness, intoxication, and poverty; and research on interactions between genetic and environmental risk factors for conduct problems. Dr. Grigorenko has worked with children and their families in the U.S. as well as in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, the Gambia, and Zambia), India, and Russia. She is especially interested in studying risk factors for language and mathematics disabilities, autism, and violent criminal behaviors in pre-adolescent children.
Dr. Grigorenko has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. She has received awards for her work from five different divisions of the American Psychological Association: the Gardner Lindzey Dissertation Award in General Psychology, Sigmund Koch Early Career Award in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Berlyne Early Career Award for Creative Achievement in Psychology of the Arts, Boyd McCandless Early Career Award in Developmental Psychology, and Richard E. Snow Early Career Award in Educational Psychology. In 2004, she won the APA Distinguished Award for an Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Dr. Grigorenko’s research has been funded by NIH, NSF, DOE, USAID, Cure Autism Now, the Foundation for Child Development, and other federal and private sponsoring organizations.
Lesley Hart
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), with advisor Charles A. Perfetti
Thesis, April, 2005:
A Training Study using an Artificial Orthography: Effects of Reading Experience, Lexical Quality, and Text Comprehension in L1 and L2
M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Wake Forest University, with advisor Dale Dagenbach
Thesis, August, 1997: An Extension of the Visual Quality Diagnostic: A Model for Distinguishing Parallel V. Serial Processing
Research Interests: development, skilled performance, and impairments in language and reading processes. Specifics, among others, include:
- The interaction of reading processes including those involving phonology, orthography, semantics, morphology, fluency, syntax, and structure building in skilled reading comprehension
- The effect of other variables such as verbal working memory, reading, language, and educational experience, and environmental factors (e.g. toxins, parasites, access to education) in reading and language competence
- The cross-language (e.g. Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Nyanja, Gonja, Ewe, Twi) study of reading and language processes to elucidate language processes and test hypotheses
- The genetic bases for reading and language disorders
- The exploitation of existing patterns in languages and writing systems (e.g. homophones, homographs, certain syntactic structures, etc) and groups of people (e.g. bilingual, adopted children, population isolates, siblings, twins, and nuclear and extended families) to study specific reading and language processes test hypotheses
- The remediation of reading and language disorders
Current Projects:
- Studying the phenotypic and genotypic makeup of language disorders in a population isolate in Russia
- Assessing the epidemiology of reading, language, and mathematical disorders in Zambian children
- Identifying the manifestation of learning disabilities in Ghanaian children and educating Ghanaian teachers in management and teaching of children with special needs
- Investigating the nature of hyperlexia (superior reading decoding ability) in children with autism spectrum disorders
- Following the course of language and cognitive development in children adopted from Russia
- Developing reading and language assessment tools at levels, lengths, and administration protocols appropriate for specific populations including Russian children and American college students
- Locating and screening extended family members from several large, well-categorized pedigrees originally acquired in Sweden
Carolyn Yrigollen
Carolyn began working in the laboratory while she was an Undergraduate in Yale. For her senior year research project she genotyped Autistic individuals and their affected or non affected family members, using candidate genes. She graduated in 2004 with a BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (Research Intensive). She is currently the Lab Manager for the wet lab, and is directly involved in several different research projects.
Mei Tan
Mei Tan is from Berkeley, CA. She received her BA/BS in English and Biology from the College of William and Mary, where she wrote her thesis on language and identity in the work of Gertrude Stein. She earned her MA in Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, writing a thesis on the use of language and imagery in the poetry of John Ashbery, under the direction of poet Robert Hass. Currently a Research Assistant for the EGLab, Ms. Tan primarily works on the Aurora Project, helping to develop intelligence assessments and writing the accompanying manual.
Jodi Reich
Jodi is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. She has earned MAs in linguistics at the University of Florida and Yale University. Her main interests are in the acquisition of syntax and morphosyntax by both typically developing children and children with language impairments, such as Specific Language Impairment. Currently, she is working on the OSH project and is further investigating the use of grammatical morphemes by the children in OSH.
Adam Naples
Adam Naples is a graduate student in the lab. He is interested in the cognitive representations that give rise to individual differences in behavioral phenotypes. Specifically, his work focuses on the interaction between domains of expertise and representational preferences that might give rise to detectable and behaviorally relevant phenotypes.
Maria Eastman
Maria graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Southern Connecticut State University in 2003. She spent three years working as a laboratory analyst in environmental chemistry before realizing that she wanted to go back into genetic research. Currently, she is a research associate for the lab and plans to go to graduate school.
Donna Macomber
Donna earned her master's degree in psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. She has an A.S. in business administration and a B.A. in psychology: theory and research. Her current interests include psychological testing and assessment of children, cognition and intelligence testing.
Alex Allaben
Alex Allaben is currently an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, majoring in Molecular and Cell biology. As a research assistant, he works in the wet lab performing various tasks such as DNA isolation, quantification, and cell culture work, for any of the ongoing projects. In addition, he plans to pursue his own independent research at the lab.
Jacob Abolafia
Jacob Abolafia is an undergraduate at Yale University with a strong interest in the molecular mechanisms of disease as well as neurobiology. He is a currently a student Lab Technician handling tasks as diverse as DNA quantification, extraction, genetic analysis, and cell culture. Jacob enjoys his work in Grigorenko lab, which he finds both stimulating and dare he say it? Fun.
Robyn Rissman
Robyn functions primarily as an editor for the various grants, papers, book chapters, and articles written by EGLab members. She received her bachelor's degree in English literature from The Colorado College and her professional background is primarily in magazine and newspaper publishing.
Seongmin ("Summer") Han
Summer is a graduate student at Yale majoring in Statistics. She started working with Dr.Grigorenko the spring semester in 2006. She's currently working on several gene-mapping projects: candidate-gene association studies on autism (finished MIF gene data recently and also working on more candidate genes); genomewide linkage analysis on multiple crime disease. She's doing data analysis and also interested in developing mathematical models for association and linkage studies.
Cheri Stahl
Cheri is has been the EGLab’s administrative assistant since July 2006. She is responsible for taking care of routine lab administration, YASC scheduling, grant preparation, and is the Journal Assistant for Learning and Individual Differences.
COLLABORATORS
Sara Sparrow
Sara Sparrow, Ph.D. in clinical psychology and neuropsychology from the University of Florida, is the author of over 100 articles and chapters in the fields of psychological assessment and developmental disabilities. She is the senior author of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and is actively engaged in the revision of the Vineland, Vineland II. She is also co-editor (along with Drs. Ami Klin and Fred Volkmar) of a recent book on Asperger's syndrome. Her main research interests involve the assessment of adaptive behavior, autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, child neuropsychology, and other developmental disabilities. Dr. Sparrow recently served on National Research Council, (National Academy of Sciences) Committee on Disability Determination for Mental Retardation. She was cofounder of the Journal of Child Neuropsychology and served as co-editor for five years. She recently received the Career Scientist Award from the American Academy of Mental Retardation.
Maria Babyonyshev
Dr. Maria Babyonyshev received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. Presently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. Her specializations are syntactic theory, first language acquisition, sentence processing, and Slavic and East Asian linguistics. Her current work focuses on the acquisition of syntactic structures by the children in OSH. She is also part of the collaborative project creating ORRIA, a Russian specific and comprehensive tool for assessing language abilities.
Tina Newman
Dr. Newman received her doctorate in School/Applied Child Psychology from McGill University in Canada. Her clinical and research interests are in assessment and intervention with children who have individual learning needs, including learning disabilities, ADHD, and giftedness. She is involved in research projects investigating the school readiness skills of children adopted from Russia and the development of an augmented assessment of giftedness. She is currently acting as a consultant for the clinic and will join the team as a clinician in the Spring of 2008.
Susan Felsenfeld, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Dr. Felsenfeld received her Ph.D. in Communication Disorders with a concentration in Behavioral Genetics, from the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Felsenfeld’s research interests focus on identifying genetic and epidemiological factors that are associated with developmental disorders of speech, particularly stuttering and severe phonological disorders.
Karen Adams-Shearer
Karen Adams-Shearer received her B.A (Hons) from Leeds University 1981. PGCE from Leeds University 1982. She was formerly a successful Head of Religious Education in an inner city Hartlepool secondary school, Karen was recruited in 2000 by Hartlepool Local Education Authority to be its Gifted &Talented Strand Co-ordinator from January 2001, within its Excellence in Cities programme. Subsequently, she was appointed Excellence Challenge/Aimhigher Co-ordinator. Her Hartlepool Gifted &Talented Action Plan was showcased originally on the DfES website as an example of good practice. In 2006 Karen was appointed School Improvement Adviser- Curriculum Enrichment for Hartlepool Children’s Services. She is an active member of two important DCSF steering groups, for Continuing Professional Development and Communication and Networking. In addition to being a respected Oxford Brookes Associate Tutor for the training of Primary School Co-ordinators, Karen has also completed her Ofsted Inspector training. Karen feels very privileged to be working with Elena and her colleagues on the Aurora research project. This is a result of her particular interest in the methods used for the identification of gifted pupils and her frustration at the current model used by most schools in England.
Joe Elliott
Julian (Joe) Elliott is currently Professor of Education at Durham University. Formerly a teacher of children with special educational needs, he subsequently practised as an educational (school) psychologist before entering higher education in 1990. After fourteen years at the University of Sunderland, latterly as Acting Dean, he returned to Durham, where he was an undergraduate in the 1970s. He is Chair of Council of Durham University’s largest college, Hild-Bede. Joe has enjoyed a long relationship with Elena and her colleagues at Yale and collaborates in a number of ongoing studies. His research interests include the assessment of reading disorders, behaviour management and teacher tacit knowledge, achievement motivation, dynamic assessment, and cognitive education and assessment.
David Bolden
David Bolden is currently a Research Associate in the School of Education at Durham University, England. Formerly a Psychology lecturer in further education he entered higher education in 1999. He worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Northumbria for six years. While there he completed his doctoral research, focussing on primary teachers’ epistemological views of mathematics. He moved to Durham University in 2006 and his collaboration with Yale’s Aurora Project stems from that time. His research interests include teacher epistemologies (particularly in relation to primary mathematics), the use of performance data in schools and teacher recruitment and retention.
Inge Pretorius
Inge-Martine Pretorius holds a PhD in Microbiology from Cape Town University, South Africa. She has conducted research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. During her post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, UK, she focused on the human alpha-globin gene cluster. She co-ordinated a European Union funded consequence assessment study of interspecific gene transfer, maintenance and expression in nature, at the Genetics Department of Bielefeld University, Germany. In 2004, she completed a psychoanalytic training at The Anna Freud Centre in London, where she currently works as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. She is a Clinical Tutor for Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at University College London and The Anna Freud Centre where she organises and teaches the MSc Child Development course. Her current research investigates disorganised parent-child relationships from the dual perspectives of molecular genetics and psychoanalysis.
Helena Thuneberg
Helena Thuneberg, PhD (helena.thuneberg@helsinki.fi), Researcher, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences.
Homepage: http://www.saunalahti.fi/ethunebe/Helena.html
Teacher qualifications: special education & class teacher (specialty: Fine arts & Mother tongue);high school teacher (Finnish language & literature). Currently post-doc visitor of EGLab, Child Study Center, Yale University
Grants:
The Finnish cultural Fund 3 year grant, The Wihuri Foundation grant
Research:
Procedural factors of learning:
Psychological well-being, academic and prosocial self-regulation in elementary & middle school in general, special and selective educational settings
Dyslexia (Review of current developmental dyslexia research: Brain/genetic/behavioral)
Attention capacity (examining the usability of Attention Concentration Test in Finnish schools)
Applications of the Self-organizing maps- method on psycho-educational field (High Ability Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1 June 2006 , 87 – 100 )
Myung Ho Lim, M.D.
Myung Ho Lim, M.D. has been visiting the EGLab for academic research on child developmental disorders since April, 2007. He is interested in the genetic study of Autism, as well as in the genetic study of learning disorders, and communication disorders (language disorders). He noted that in Korea the biological study of child developmental disorders are mainly focused on ADHD. In the future, during the next decade, Autism and other Learning disorders will be studied in Korea. Dr. Lim is working on “environmental toxins and child developmental disorders” through a grant from the Federal Environment Foundation and on “ADHD polymorphism and drug response” through a grant from the Federal Academic Foundation in Korea. Several of his recent the academic papers are: “Association of the DAT1 polymorphism with ADHD: a family-based approach” in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 2006, “Expose to chronic aircraft noise and sustained attention, continuous performance and cognition in Children” in Child and Adolescent Psychology (Korean), 2007, and “Aripiprazole in ADHD with Tic Disorder and in ADHD with Tourette Disorder” in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 2007.
Mercedes Ferrando
Dr. Mercedes Ferrando is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the PACE Center, sponsored by the Seneca Foundation (Regional Agency of Science and Technology, Murcia, Spain). She graduated with a PhD in gifted and emotional intelligence from Murcia University in 2006, and was a PhD Research Fellow (sponsored by the Spanish Educational Ministry, 2003-2006). Previously, she was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of doMinho (Braga, Portugal), a PhD student at Warwick University (Institute of Education, UK, grant sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology), and a PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University in the Educational Research Centre, UK (sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology). Her research is focused on creativity, intelligence, gifted and talented children, thinking skills and emotional intelligence. She got involved with the EGlab in July 2007 to work in the Aurora project and its translation/adaptation into Spanish culture.
FRIENDS & FAMILY
Sergey Kornilov
Sergey is a student at the Department of Psychology, Moscow State University (Russia). His interests include educational psychology, learning disabilities and cognitive development of children and adults (with emphasis on intelligence testing and predicting success in latter life). He's currently working on several projects but primarily on Aurora project, developing Russian version of assessments.
Aleksandra ("Sasha") Zavadenko
Aleksandra Zavadenko received her M.D. from the School of Medicine , Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Russia, in 2007. Her work in the EG Lab is focused on researching the genetic basis of developmental problems such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism. Aleksandra is currently pursuing a residency in Child Neurology in Moscow.
Elena ("Yola") Kallestinova
Elena received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Iowa in 2007. In her dissertation she explored the syntactic and psycholinguistic aspects of word order in Russian, a language with flexible word order. Her current research focuses on the child acquisition of verb categories, verb agreement and word order by normally developing children and children with specific language impairment (SLI). She is also interested in the acquisition of prosodic patterns (intonation and stress) in the child language development. Her work in Elena Grigorenko’s lab focuses on the language impairment criteria and linguistics characteristics of Russian children with SLI.
LAB GRADUATES
Douglas Hausladen
Douglas Hausladen began working in the Grigorenko laboratory in January of 2003 and continued until his graduation in May of 2004. He graduated with a degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He started as a general laboratory assitant, but did an independent research project his senior year genotyping conduct disorder individuals. After hanging up his labcoat (graduation), Douglas started his own company and is now expanding his business in Florida and hopes to be national by 2008. (He can still be found at 2 am on bad cable television commercials for furniture stores in the New Haven area).
Maya Getchell
Maya is an undergraduate at Yale majoring in Biology and has been working at the lab as a research assistant since her junior year. She is currently working on her senior project which involves genotyping adult conduct disorder individuals using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on several candidate genes. In addition to her independent research, she also performs basic data collection procedures such as DNA extraction, quantification, and analysis for other ongoing projects. She is now pursuing a graduate degree at the Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge, MA.
Anna Kochetkova
Anna is from Riga, Latvia, where she graduated from the University of Latvia with a diploma of a mathematician-statistician. Now Anna is working on her Ph. D. thesis in the field of multi-trait oligogenic Bayesian linkage analysis at the Yale University Department of Statistics.
Niamh ("Neeve") Doyle
Niamh is from Dublin, Ireland, where she received a B.Ed in elementary school teaching (from St.Patricks College, DCU) and a B.Sc (from the Open University) in Psychology. Niamh taught in Irish elementary schools for 4.5 years, before teaching in Canberra, Australia for an additional year. She is currently working as research assistant for Dr. Grigorenko and Dr. Newman on numerous projects such as :A Family Study of Hyperlexia , Study of Adoptees from Russia (STAR study) and Students with Learning Difficulties and Creative/Visual-Spatial Gifts. She is based in the dry lab, so is also responsible for administrative aspects of the Grigorenko lab and the coordination of joint efforts with the PACE Clinic and PACE Center. Niamh is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Syracuse University.
Robert Sanchez
Robert is an undergraduate at Yale majoring in the History of Science and Medicine and has just begun his work at the lab as a research assistant during his freshman year. While learning basic operations such as DNA quantification, extraction, and analysis, Robert is gradually gaining the tools needed to work more independently in the lab.
Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is from Simsbury, CT. She has finished her freshman year at Brown University, where she is planning on majoring in psychology. She started working for the lab in the summer of 2005, as a research assistant on several different projects which focus on learning disorders.
George Rockwell
George Rockwell is an undergraduate at Antioch College, majoring in Environmental and Biological sciences. His work at the E.G. lab will be the final internship for Antioch's Co-op program. George is involved with learning all the lab protocols used for the genetic research done in the E.G. lab. Once George has finished learning all the techniques and protocols that are necessary he will begin his own project.
Luke Turechek
Luke Turechek is from Shelton, CT. He attended Dartmouth College and the Freie Universität Berlin, and received a degree in Biochemistry with a minor in German Studies. Luke is involved in projects researching the genetic basis of problems such as conduct disorder, autism and dyslexia.,
Jyothi Chintapalli
Jyothi Chintapalli has a double Masters degree in Biotechnology (Andhra University, India), and Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of New Haven, USA). She worked for Biogen Corporation as an intern and since then, is working as a Research Assistant-II with Yale. She has been doing cell and tissue culture, virology and molecular biology work. She has a couple of research papers and had taken part in presentations and seminars too. She is also a part-time lecturer in Biology at Manchester Community College.
Crystal Castaneda
Crystal is currently a freshman undergraduate at Yale University and undergoing her first year in the lab. She plans to major in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and then hopes to attend medical school after graduating from Yale to pursue a career in pediatrics. She is presently gaining technical lab experience and familiarity with the Child Study Center’s genetics projects and research processes, and intends to pursue further study in the wet lab and participate in future independent research.
Chijioke ("Chill") Okeke
Laboratory Technician - Earned a B.A. in Biology at Yale University. His background is in Evolutionary Microbiology and Ecology. His current interests lie in Biomedical Sciences and behavioral science. He is currently assisting with various projects throughout the lab to keep Caroline sane. He enjoys music, eating, exercising, and research.
Hilary Chart
Hilary is originally from (chilly) northern Minnesota. She earned her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard and her MA in International Education Policy from Stanford. In the EG lab, she is glad to spread her efforts between domestic and international projects, namely the Connecticut Youth Detainee Program and the Ghana and Zambia studies. Her interests in research and practice include understanding and improving education outcomes among at-risk children in the US and vulnerable populations in the Global South. Hilary looks forward to keeping in touch with the lab as she begins doctoral studies at Harvard in the fall of 2007.
Katherine ("Kt") Westby
Kt Westby began working in the EG Lab in 2007. She earned AS degrees in Engineering Science as well as Natural Science and Mathematics from Gateway Community College, a BS in Individualized Studies: Biology/Psychology from Charter Oak State College, and is currently working toward an MS in Research Statistics and Measurements at Southern Connecticut State University. Kt is working on projects involving cognitive and behavioral development in international adoptees, giftedness in children, and genetic correlates to childhood psychological disorders.
Julian ("Julek") Chawarska
Julek Chawarski worked in the genetics lab prior to beginning college at Georgetown University. He worked with several of the DNA collections, and learned many of the techniques used in the lab.
Alison O'Neill
Alison O'Neill worked in the genetics lab as part of a academic program while she attended high school. She worked with the Autism collection, genotyping a set of candidate genes using both SNPs and STRPs.
Jerry Haeffel
Jerry Haeffel received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Currently, he is at the University of Notre Dame. Jerry’s research program is devoted to delineating the full range of cognitive processes involved in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of depression. He has extended the cognitive theories of depression by integrating research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and affective science. He uses multiple research designs (cross-sectional, prospective, behavioral high-risk, and randomized trials) and measurement techniques (e.g., questionnaires, laboratory tasks, and diagnostic interviews) in studies of nondepressed, dysphoric, and clinically depressed adolescents and adults. Jerry’s work in the EG Lab was focused on the Connecticut Youth Detainee Program (CYDP) project. The primary goal of this project is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of Social Problem-Solving Training (SPST) in a sample of children and adolescents in the CYDP.
Elisa Mambrino
Ph.D. in School Psychology from Columbia University's Teachers College; Pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine; M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Dr. Mambrino's research explores the complex cognitive process of expository writing in young adults, using an approach that examines linguistic ability and neurocognitive factors, including working memory, metacognitive skills, associated long-term memory and social-cognitive perspective taking. She applies theory and methodology from both cognitive and social psychology, while acknowledging writing-related perspectives found in anthropology, classical rhetoric, cognitive developmental psychology, and psycholinguistics. Dr. Mambrino's work in the EG Lab focused on the Connecticut Youth Detainee Program (CYDP). This randomized clinical trial of a cognitive-behavioral intervention is aimed at evaluating the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of Social Problem-Solving Training (SPST) in a sample of children and adolescents in the CYPD. Dr. Mambrino is currently in private practice.
Jaclyn Scholl
Having just graduated from Providence College with a bachelors degree in mathematics, Jackie is now a first year graduate student in the statistics department. She began working with EGlab this past summer by helping run statistical analyses. Her current projects include a multiple crime study and autism research.
Jay Singh
Jay P. Singh began working in the Grigorenko lab in May of 2007 heading up the Social Problem Solving Training protocol at juvenile detention centers across Connecticut. He graduated summa cum laude with highest honors with degrees in Clinical Psychology and Child Development from Tufts University. Jay’s independent research and publications span multiple subfields such as emotional development, behavioral genetics, and psychopathy. He has co-authored a collegiate textbook on approaches to problem behavior and classroom management and is currently working on a second. Jay is currently a graduate student at the University of Oxford and will be reading for his PhD in Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science under Dante Cicchetti and Nicki Crick starting in 2009.
PHOTO GALLERY
Sasha, Kt, and Chill
Jackie and Jodi
Sasha and Jodi
Lesley, Ian (Lesley's son), Sergey, Jon (Lesley's son), Sasha, and Karen Smith