Call for students interested in The Delta Center and the Developmental Science program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa are looking for outstanding graduate students interested in understanding developmental process. Faculty in our graduate programs are leading researchers in the field with expertise in the development of perceptual systems, speech perception, pre-linguistic communication, categorization, working memory, word learning, gesture, and mental representation, as well as social, visual, spatial and mathematical cognition and psychobiology. Our approach is unified by an emphasis on development as a step-by-step process that reflects a continual dialogue between stability and change and one that integrates across the brain, body, environment, social relationships, and large-scale social systems. We examine development with cutting edge tools such as Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), eye-tracking, virtual reality, and mathematical modeling and train students in rigorous approaches to experimentation, observation, and description. Meet four current Delta Center graduate students via our 2009 recruitment poster (pdf): Also, listen to what Sarah Kucker and Sammy Perone say about their decision to choose Iowa and the Delta Center (streamed video) |