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Scholarly Assistant Professor, Human Development
McClaskey 229, Vancouver 
360-546-9714
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
Lisa Colón
Assistant Professor
Johnson Tower 522
509-335-2870
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 - Career
WSUCC 150A, Pullman
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
Nicole Scalise
Assistant Professor
Johnson Hall 508
509-335-9642
Gitanjali Shrestha
Research Assistant Professor - Career
Johnson Tower
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/ Associate Director
Johnson Tower 616, Pullman
509-860-8463
  • 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
Betty Wilson
Assistant Professor
Washington State University