Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to ask your assistance in identifying and encouraging applicants for the Ph.D. program in Human Development and Family Studies at Oregon State University. Please forward this email to those in your program that might be interested in pursuing their education with Oregon State University!
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FAMILY SCIENCES PHD PROGRAM
Our program focuses on optimal development across the life span for individuals and families in a changing sociohistorical context. Our research is interdisciplinary with three signature themes:
1. Transitions across the life course
2. Risk and resilience across the life span
3. Developmental and family research methods.
We have research emphases in child development, adult development and aging, families, rural communities, and cross-national comparisons. Graduate students will have the opportunity to collaborate on research across these three signature areas.
PROGRAM TRAINING
Our program is an interdisciplinary program that prepares students for careers that focus on research and teaching.
We offer innovative training in theory, empirical research, and methods for studying individuals, families, and communities. Our faculty and graduate students work together to identify common areas of interest and pursue shared intellectual goals in the signature areas noted above.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
· Most students are funded through graduate research and teaching assistantships
· Typically these assistantships include a monthly living stipend and tuition remission
· Our students who have assistantships also receive health insurance through the Graduate Student Union
FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Alan C. Acock, Professor and Barbara Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy: Intergenerational relations, family structure, fathering, at risk families, quantitative methods.
Carolyn M. Aldwin, Professor: Psychosocial factors and health, stress, coping, and stress-related growth, long term effects of combat and childhood stress, and optimal aging.
Sally Bowman, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist: Families in later life, rural families in poverty, program evaluation.
Marc Braverman, Associate Dean and Extension FCD Program Leader: Applied research methods and program evaluation, community programming, health promotion for youth.
Deborah Coehlo, Assistant Professor: Caregiving across the lifespan, care of children with special needs and their families, mental health across the life span, and multimedia strategies for enhancing education.
Lizbeth Ann Gray, Associate Professor and Associate Dean: Family, sexuality, social change, women’s issues, human services, and international context.
Karen Hooker, Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Aging Research: Personality and aging, transitions and self development, social relationships in adulthood, intraindividual variability and burst measurement designs.
Michael R. Levenson, Associate Professor: Exceptional adult development with a special emphasis on transformational change, developmental theory, psychological assessment, personality disorders, and consciousness studies.
Katherine A. MacTavish, Associate Professor: Rural families and communities, family management strategies and child/youth development in risky rural contexts, rural poverty and community development.
Megan McClelland, Associate Professor: Early social and cognitive development, school readiness, links between self-regulation and school success, risk and resilience in young children.
Patricia Moran, Associate Professor: End of life issues, family policy, and at-risk youth.
Leslie Richards, Assistant Professor: Rural poverty, relationships, family literacy, program evaluation.
Sharon Rosenkoetter, Associate Professor: Early childhood leadership, early childhood transitions, policy development, development of literacy skills in typically and atypically developing young children.
Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Professor: The life course; social policy; transition to adulthood; aging; fatherhood; civic engagement.
Samuel Vuchinich, Associate Professor: Family interaction and social development, adolescence, quantitative methods, family conflict and problem solving.
Alexis J. Walker, Professor, Department Chair, and Joanne L. Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies: Gender and family relationships, inter- and intra-generational relationships, families in middle and later life.
OSU FACTS
Oregon State University is a comprehensive public research university and a member of the Oregon University System. A land, sea, space, and sun grant institution, we have programs and faculty located in every county of the state. OSU was recently given the designation of Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. It was the only Oregon institution to receive the top designation, and one of only 63 public institutions nationwide. OSU views the state of Oregon as its campus, and works in partnership with Oregon community colleges and other state system institutions to provide access to educational programs.
LOCATION
Oregon State University may not be in the biggest city, but it's being recognized as one of the top ten college towns in the country. Oregon State University is home to approximately 20,300 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, representing about 90 countries, every state in the nation and every county in the state of Oregon. OSU is located in Corvallis, Oregon, a community of just over 50,000 people situated in the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene. Ocean beaches, pristine mountain lakes, rushing rivers, old-growth forests, the sunny high desert, the rugged Cascade and Coast Ranges, and the urban amenities of the Portland metropolitan area are all within a 100-mile drive of Corvallis.
CONTACT US!
We welcome inquiries from prospective applicants. For more information on our doctoral program, please write to maya.burton@oregonstate.edu, phone (541) 737-4765, or visit our website at: http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/hdfs/home
Karen Hooker, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Healthy Aging Research
Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
321 Milam Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
541.737.4336/1076 (fax)
http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/healthyaging
Karen Hooker, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Healthy Aging Research
Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
321 Milam Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
541.737.4336/1076 (fax)
hookerk@oregonstate.edu
http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/healthyaging
