Scholarly Assistant Professor
McClaskey 229, Vancouver
360-546-9714
Associate Professor
McClaskey 201, Vancouver
360-546-9336
- healthy aging
- aging in place
- family gerontology
- grief, coping, and loss
- elder abuse
Minxi Cheng
Scholarly Assistant Professor - Career
Johnson Tower 601B
509-335-2918
Professor
Johnson Tower 519, Pullman
509-335-3816
- Addiction and Substance Abuse (Etiology, Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery)
- Emerging Adult Development with Emphasis on Underrepresented and High-Risk Youth
- Prevention Science
- Social Contextual Factors and Health Behavior
- Advanced Quantitative Methods, including Latent Variable (e.g., SEM), Finite Mixture (e.g., LCA), and Multilevel Models
Scholarly Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 525, Pullman
- College student success and well-being
- Emerging Adulthood
- Experiential Education
- Challenge and Outdoor Education
Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 513, Pullman
- Prevention Science
- Dissemination and Implementation Science
- Translational Research
- Evidence-based Program Sustainability
- Evidence-based Program Adaptation
- Prevention Workforce Development
Professor
McClaskey 230, Vancouver
360-546-9170
- Social justice
- Narratives of Us versus Them
- Decolonizing ways of being and knowing
- Autoethnography
Assistant Professor
Johnson Tower 516, Pullman
509-335-9299
• Adolescent and young adult development with a focus on understudied populations
• Etiology, risk and protective factors, and consequences for high-risk alcohol and drug use in adolescence and young adulthood
• Sexual behavior in adolescence and young adulthood
• Prevention science
Scholarly Assistant Professor - Career
Johnson Tower 619
509-335-8403
Scholarly Assistant Professor
Johnson Tower 524, Pullman
509-335-2772
Scholarly Professor
Interim Chair, Human Development
Johnson Tower 518, Pullman
509-335-2935
Director, Center for Transformational Learning and Leadership
Scholarly Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 618, Pullman
509-335-8678
Scholarly Assistant Professor
Johnson Tower 617, Pullman
509-335-1425
- Well-being and life skills interventions
- Mindfulness
- Tidal leadership facilitator
- Provost’s Leadership Academy trainer
- L.I.F.T. Faculty development facilitator
Professor
Johnson Tower 523, Pullman
- Family stress and functioning
- Effects of human animal interaction (equine assisted interventions)
- HPA axis activity and child development
Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 515, Pullman
- Developmental neuroscience
- Electroencephalography (EEG) methodology
- Brain, behavioral and social basis of emotion regulation from infancy to adulthood
- Emergence and development of top-down (executive) control
Jennifer Putney
Scholarly Assistant Professor - Career
Johnson Tower 601A
509-335-8668
Scholarly Assistant Professor
McClaskey 220, Vancouver
360-546-9665
Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 521, Pullman
- Adolescent sexuality and romantic relationships
- Media and adolescent well-being
- Adolescent and emerging adult sexual violence prevention
- Parent-adolescent relationships and communication
Associate Professor
McClaskey 225, Vancouver
360-546-9733
- Child welfare system
- Aging out of foster care
- Postsecondary access and retention of youth in foster care
- Developing, adapting, and testing interventions
- Program evaluation; Maltreatment, trauma, and PTSD
- LGBTQ youth well-being
- International approaches to child welfare services
Academic Director & Professor
McClaskey 231, Vancouver
360-546-9124
- Family relationships
- Rural family poverty
- Family health promotion in rural settings
Associate Professor
McClaskey 226, Vancouver
360-546-9272
- Children’s emotional and physiological self-regulation
- Child-caregiver attachment bond
- Biological mechanisms linking early adversity to health outcomes
- Preventive interventions for trauma-exposed families
Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 514, Pullman
- Adult Development and Aging
- Service Utilization
- Aging Policy
- Social and Family Gerontology
- Aging in Rural Communities
- Training and Development of Professional in the Field of Aging
- Lifespan Prevention Science
Associate Professor & Adolescent Extension Specialist
Johnson Tower 512, Pullman
509-335-2130
- Adolescent development
- The role of leisure and free-time in risk behavior and healthy development
- Positive youth development
- Substance use
Scholarly Associate Professor
Johnson Tower 616, Pullman
509-335-0462
- Center for Transformational Learning and Leadership
- Tidal Leadership facilitator
- LIFT Faculty development facilitator
- Design, evaluation and implementation of well-being and life skills in undergraduate courses
- Leadership development
