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The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

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Save the date!
August 20, 2025
The Ninth Annual Central PA Workshop on Evidence-Based Mental Health Services
“Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Youth Suicide Prevention”
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
Please register here

Save the date!
October 2, 2025
The 2025-2026 Child Study Center’s Lois Bloom Lecture
Adriana Janette Umana-Taylor, Ph.D.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
4:15 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn

News

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Koraly Pérez-Edgar, McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology, will be a keynote speaker at the 2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Annual Meeting held at Penn State July 21 and 22 at the Nittany Lion Inn
Congratulations to faculty affiliate Danielle Downs on being named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology
Rina D. Eiden was part of an exploratory study that looked at the effects of Play With Me, an at-home play-based parenting intervention, on weight outcomes in middle childhood
Congratulations to Briana Ermanni, Ph.D., who previously worked in the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab with Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Ph.D., for being an incoming SRCD State Policy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the New Hampshire Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration
Research led by Karen Bierman, Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies, found the Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) intervention led to improved teen behavior and mental health

Student Spotlight

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Sharleen Banatte (’24)

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Music has a transformative ability that transcends reason… I joined the Pitch Exploration Lab because I wanted to better understand how we as individuals and a society interact with music.