NDSU Developmental Science Doctoral Program

One final doctoral candidate to introduce this week....
Congratulations to Philip Estepp on advancing to doctoral candidacy! Last week he successfully proposed his dissertation, passing his preliminary exam, and entering into the final stage of the Developmental Science PhD program. 🌟🌟🌟 Well done, Philip! 🌟🌟🌟

Big congrats go out to Developmental Science PhD student Jordan Bentz! She has successfully advanced to doctoral candidacy and is ready to launch into the final stages of dissertating. 👏👏👏 Excellent work, Jordan! 👏👏👏

As we launch into summer, we have some new doctoral candidates to celebrate. First up... Congratulations to Developmental Science student Beckham Arthur who successfully advanced to doctoral candidate during finals week. Well done, Beckham! 🎉🎉🎉

Celebrating the end of a successful semester in Dr. McWood's "Social and Emotional Development across the Lifespan"! 🤰👶 👧👩👱‍♀️👩‍🦳👵 We had a great semester full of diverse readings, activities, and assignments, and now we are ready to integrate our new knowledge on socio-emotional development into our research and practice.

We recently gathered for an end-of-year cookout to connect with one another and celebrate another years of successes! 👏 The sun was shining, but we were still waiting for warm temperatures to arrive. 🌞❄🌞

DS grad students and faculty had fun helping out at the HDFS Spring Social last week. This was a fun departmental event to help our undergraduate students to de-stress as finals approach. Therapy dogs were most definitely a highlight! 🐾🐕🐾🐩🐾

Olivia How, one of our PhD students, presented her research at the Society for Research in Adolescence Conference in Toronto along with her advisor Dr. Carmen Kho!

It’s always exciting to see our students sharing their work with the broader research community. Great job, Olivia! 🎉

One final doctoral candidate to announce this semester... Congratulations to Developmental Science student Burak Dogruoz who successfully advanced to doctoral candidate this week. 👏👏👏 Well done, Burak! 👏👏👏