PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Dr. Laurence Steinberg
Principal Investigator, Phase IV
lds@temple.edu

Dr. Steinberg is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Steinberg has taught previously at Cornell University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was educated at Vassar College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with honors and distinction in psychology in 1974; and at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in human development and family studies in 1977. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, has been a Faculty Scholar of the William T. Grant Foundation, and is currently Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice. Dr. Steinberg is President of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association and a Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

A nationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence, Dr. Steinberg's research has focused on a range of topics in the study of contemporary adolescence, including parent-adolescent relationships, adolescent employment, high school reform, and juvenile justice. His work has been funded by a variety of public and private organizations, including NICHD, NIDA, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice, the MacArthur Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Lilly Endowment.

Dr. Marsha Weinraub
Principal Investigator, Phase I - III
Co-Principal Investigator, Phase IV
mweinrau@temple.edu

Dr. Weinraub is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University and Chairperson of the Psychology Department in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.

Dr. Weinraub has published widely on the effects of early child care, single parenting and maternal employment on parent-child relationships and child development. A national leader in childcare research, Dr. Weinraub testified concerning the effects of early childcare before the U.S. Congress in 1997 in hearings conducted by the Women's Congressional Caucus. Dr. Weinraub was a Principal Investigator on Phases 1 through 3 of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a national longitudinal project investigating variations in early child care in infants and toddlers and the effect of these variations on children's social, emotional, and intellectual development from 1989 through 2004. She is now a co investigator on the adolescence phase of the NICHD project. With Dr. Anne Shlay and Michelle Harmon, Dr. Weinraub has evaluated child care intervention and subsidy programs. They have just completed a two-year project funded by the William Penn Foundation of the effects of child care subsidies on parental employment, child and family outcomes in low income families with different ethnic backgrounds.
Currently, Dr. Weinraub is Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries to evaluate the impact of the 2007 One Book Every Young Child program.

Dr. Weinraub was awarded her B.A. from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Melissa Correa
Site Coordinator,
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
mcorrea@temple.edu

Melissa Correa has been a member of the PSDR lab since 2005. Melissa joined the lab as a research assistant for the Family and Children's Policy Collaborative working on both the Welfare Reform and Childcare Subsidy Study and the pilot evaluation of the One Book, Every Young Child Program. Her responsibilities included surveying families via telephone, scheduling and coordinating lab visits, cleaning and entering data, maintaining databases, compiling mass mailings, managing administrative tasks, and keeping rapport with participant families.

Melissa became the Site Coordinator of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) project in 2007. In this capacity, Melissa oversees many aspects of the project including the hiring and managing of student workers; assisting with budget development and management, maintaining lab operations and IRB approval; managing data collection activities with participant families, pediatric nurse practitioners, and schools; data cleaning and entry; and fostering relationships with study participants and collaborating institutions.

PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS

Dave Deery

Virginia Biddle