Lab Director
Maria M. Wong, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair Department of Psychology Idaho State University [email protected] Google Scholar Profile Research Gate Profile |
Maria Wong is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department. She is a developmental psychologist by training (University of Chicago). She completed postdoctoral fellowships in Developmental Psychopathology and Substance use (University of Michigan). Her research focuses on examining risk and protective factors that affect substance use, suicidal behavior and resilience. One of her current projects examines how sleep and executive functions affect substance use and health in children and adolescents. She is the director of the Development and Resilience Lab. Her research projects have been funded by the National Institute of Health since 2008. Her work was cited in articles published by National Public Radio, Time Magazine, BBC, CNN, NBC, Reuters and the Associated Press. She teaches graduate courses in univariate and multivariate statistics. She also teaches undergraduate course in Child Development, Psychology of Adolescence and Testing and Measurement.
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Graduate Students
Stephanie received her undergraduate degree in Psychology, with a minor in Mathematics, from Indiana University - Northwest. After undergrad, she worked at DePaul University in Chicago for three years as a Budget Manager and Research Project Coordinator for an NIH-funded grant investigating infectious mononucleosis and myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome in college students. She is currently on internship in the Neuropsychology/Neuroscience track at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Her research focuses on the relationships between sleep, executive function, and suicide.
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Madisen is a fourth-year graduate student in ISU's experimental psychology program. She received her A.A.S. in Welding and her B.S. and M.S. in Psychology from Idaho State University. Her research interests are focused on development and resilience across the lifespan. Her goal is to become a researcher in academia.
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Emma received her undergraduate degree in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado Boulder. After undergraduate, Emma spent four years conducting clinical sleep research at the University of Colorado Anschutz. She is currently a second-year student in the clinical psychology program at ISU, where she hopes to study the impact of sleep disruption on mental health and addictive behaviors. In the future, Emma hopes to remain in academia as a clinician-scientist.
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Hannah is from Washington and received her B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Carroll College. She is currently a second-year student in the experimental psychology doctoral program at ISU. She is broadly interested in neuropsychology with a specific interest in substance abuse and executive functioning. Her goal is to become a researcher in either academia or industry.
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Brittany is from Los Angeles and received her undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences with a minor in Psychology from the University of Rochester. She was commissioned in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer and served on USS HUE CITY (CG-66), USS JOHN PAUL JONES (DDG-53), CNSG MIDDLE PACIFIC, and USS O’KANE (DDG-77) for 6 years prior to joining ISU’s Clinical Psychology Program. During her service, she worked part-time at an embedded mental health clinic studying service members attitudes towards suicide. Her interests continue to focus on suicidology and substance abuse in regards to military populations. Her ultimate goal is to re-integrate with the military to provide research-practitioner based care.
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