COLLEGE PARK, MD (March, 2015) At its biennial meeting held this March in Philadelphia, the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) recognized two HDQM faculty members Dr. Nathan Fox and Dr. Kenneth Rubin for their many contributions to the field of child development.
Dr. Fox, chair of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology and director of the Child Development Lab, was lauded for distinguished scientific contributions to child development. Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for over twenty years, Professor Foxs work focuses on the role of infant temperament in the development of social competence, with particular attention to the emergence of anxious behavior in children. He is a principal investigator for the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, which examines the effects of early experience on brain and behavioral development. He has been a president of the International Society of Infant Studies and Division 7 of the American Psychological Association and is a founding member of the National Scientific Council for the Developing Child. Dr. Fox is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
SRCD extolled Dr. Rubin for distinguished contributions to understanding international, cultural, and contextual diversity in child development. Professor Rubin heads the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture. He studies child and adolescent social development, especially peer and parent-child relationships, and anxious-withdrawal and aggression, from a cross-cultural perspective. Working with colleagues around the world, he has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications. A Fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations and the Association of Psychological Science, Dr. Rubin has been president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), an elected member of the SRCD Governing Council, and an elected member of the APA Division 7 Executive Board. His previous honors include the ISSBD Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Research and Theory in Behavioral Development, the APAs Developmental Psychology Mentor Award, and in Canada, the Pickering Award for Outstanding Contribution to Developmental Psychology.
At the same ceremony, SRCD also recognized Dr. Marc Bornstein, senior investigator and head of child and family research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, who is affiliated with the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture as well as HDQMs NICHD/NIH Graduate Training Program in Social Development.
Click here to learn more about the 2015 SRCD awards.
Click here to read the Benjamin Bulletin story about Dr. Fox’s involvement with the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.
Click here to learn more about the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture.
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