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College of Education and Human Services

CEHS Faculty Profiles

Faculty Profile
Name Department
Jennifer Brown Urban Family and Child Studies

Scholarly Interests and Specialties

  • Applied Developmental Science
  • Positive Youth Development
  • Developmental Systems Theories
  • Out-of-school Activity Involvement and the Impact on Positive and Negative Indicators of Development
  • Ecological Factors as Context for Development
  • Effective Means of Integrating Research and Practice
  • Evaluation and Program Planning Particularly for Youth Development Programs
  • STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Programs
  • Public Health Programs

Professional Association Memberships
  • Society for Research in Child Development
  • Society for Research on Adolescence
  • Society for the Study of Human Development
  • American Evaluation Association

Reviewer for the following professional journals
  • Applied Developmental Science
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Journal for Research on Adolescence

Other Types of Reviews
  • National Institute of Justice, Reviewer of Grant Applications
  • American Psychological Society, Reviewer of Conference Proposals

Work With Schools and Other Agencies

Materials Science and Engineering Centers educational outreach (National Science Foundation funded center grants) - working with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) practitioners/educators to develop program evaluation and planning capacity. Cornell Cooperative Extension - working with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) practitioners/educators to develop program evaluation and planning capacity.