Research Team
Welcome to the Research Team page!
Principal Investigator
Julia Braungart-Rieker
jbraunga@nd.edu)
(574) 631-0884
Our projects definitely require a team effort! I have had the pleasure of working with a number of faculty colleagues, project staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students on a number of different research projects.
Below are photos and links to research team members.
Collaborators
E. Mark Cummings
ecumming@nd.edu
(574) 631- 0886
John Borkowski
John.G.Borkowski.1@nd.edu
(574) 631-0885
Lijuan (Peggy) Wang
lwang4@nd.edu
(574) 631-7243
Lee Gettler
lgettler@nd.edu
(574) 631-4479
Elizabeth Moore
emoore@nd.edu
(574) 631-6263
Jen Burke Lefever, Ph.D.
jburke2@nd.edu
(574) 631-8595
South Bend Professional Staff
Cheryl Lee, Project Coordinator
clee21@nd.edu or nfabs@nd.edu
(574) 631-0950
Gretchen Nichols, Family Coach
gnichol1@nd.edu
(574) 631-8401
Melissa Denney, Family Coach
mdenney2@nd.edu
(574) 631-8153
Geri Sult, Family Coach
gsult@nd.edu
(574) 631-8126
Kathy Heyn, Assessment Coordinator
kheyn@nd.edu
(574) 631-0362
Michael Lafollette, Recruitment Coordinator
Ft. Wayne Professional Staff
Kathleen Bergman Miller, Ph.D., Project Coordinator
kbergman@nd.edu
(574) 631-0956
Graduate Students
Dianna Tran, Graduate Research Assistant
Dianna graduated from California State University Long Beach in 2013 with a B.A. in Psychology, and a minor in Sociology. Her research interests focus on the development of children from low-income, minority families. Specifically, she is interested in how parenting techniques influence the socio-emotional and academic development of at-risk children. Outside of school, Dianna enjoys swimming and biking.
Dianna.Tran.72@nd.edu
(574) 631-370
Molly O'Neill, Graduate Research Assistant
Molly graduated from Texas Christian University in 2015 with a B.S. in Psychology. She is broadly interested in parent-infant interactions, attachment, theory of mind, and socio-emotional functioning. She is currently involved in a project examining how parent and infant emotion, cognition, and physiology influence the developing attachment relationship. By studying the complex emotional, cognitive, and physiological changes as the parent-infant relationship begins, she hopes to provide insight on how we can better aid parents and babies during such a vulnerable, yet crucial time. In her spare time, Molly enjoys baking and hiking with her dog, Brynn.
Molly.O'Neill.103@nd.edu
(574) 631-4516
Amanda Nowak, Graduate Research Assistant
Amanda graduated from Lehigh University in early 2015. Her research focuses on the development of emotion regulation in young children. More specifically, she is interested in the factors that influence emotion regulation (e.g. parenting) and the factors that emotion regulation influences (e.g. social competence). Amanda plans to use her findings to help design prevention/intervention programs for children who have poor emotion regulation in order to encourage better outcomes for both the children and their families.
Amanda.L.Nowak.38@nd.edu
(574) 631-1370
Samantha Murray, Graduate Research Assistant
Sam graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. She is interested in parenting and the socio-emotional development of children. Her interests are specially geared toward research of the marital conflicts, parenting interventions, and the parental relationships with the school system. She enjoys all types of sports and movies and loves spending quality time with her Bernedoodle, Finnegan!
smurray9@nd.edu
(574) 631-4516
Emily Laporte, Graduate Research Assistant
Emily is interested in several lines of research relevant to familial and formal educational settings. Her interests include the impact of parental emotion regulation on child attachment, emotion-regulation, and academic achievement, as well as factors that negatively impact and could improve child emotion-regulation, character development, and academic perseverance and achievement.
elaporte@nd.edu
(574) 631-4516
2019 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Seniors
Lindsay Baca
Alessia Bryant
Sabrina Hollis
Betti Qi
Natalie Stevens
Emila Maliborski
Grace Kelly
Cindy Loayza
Juniors
Abigail Feda
Maggie Gavigan
Gillian Sullivan
Sarah Hatfield
Erin Herbert
Sophomores
Alexandra O'Grady
Maria Elosua Cantu
Katherine Machado
Meghan Ludke
Mary Ellen McCabe
Christian Cepeda
