Presidential Graduate Fellow Award (2022 – 2026): The University of Georgia’s Presidential Graduate Fellow award is the University’s most prestigious fellowship award for incoming doctoral students. The fellowship offers students four years of annual stipend and travel support in addition to departmental assistantships and tuition waivers. ($7,000 per year)
Richard L. Marsh Mentoring Award (2023): This award was created to commemorate Dr. March’s extraordinary commitment to mentoring students. The award will be given annually to a faculty member and graduate student who are deeply committed to research mentoring.
International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Undergraduate Fellowship (2021): The program pairs promising students with researchers from around the world who conduct cutting-edge science. Identified mentors will work with students over an intensive 8-week period. ($4,000)
Conference Posters
Jerry, C. M., Kolberg, A., Mazzella, S., Lee, S., Suveg, C., & Abney, D. (2024). Physiological responses to the onset of mother & child utterances in a stress-inducing dyadic task [Poster presentation]. The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Austin, Texas.
Jerry, C.M., Steffen, G., Bell, C., Kolberg, A., Patel, B., & Abney, D. (2024). The operationalization of coordinated attention and the relations to language development: A meta-analysis [Poster presentation]. International Conference of Infant Studies (ICIS), Glasgow, Scotland.
Publications
Steffen, G. M., Jerry, C. M., Bell, C., Kolberg, A. R., Patel, B., & Abney, D. H. (2024). The operationalization of coordinated attention and the relations to language development: A meta-analysis. Advances in child development and behavior, 66, 81-107.
Abney, D. H., Jerry, C. M., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2024). Look before you reach: Fixationâreach latencies predict reaching kinematics in toddlers. Infancy, 29(1), 6-21.
Mitsven, S. G., Perry, L. K., Jerry, C. M., & Messinger, D. S. (2022). Classroom language during COVID-19: Associations between mask-wearing and objectively measured teacher and preschooler vocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 874293.
Messinger, D. S., Perry, L. K., Mitsven, S. G., Tao, Y., Moffitt, J., Fasano, R. M., ... & Jerry, C. M. (2022). Computational approaches to understanding interaction and development. In Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 62, pp. 191-230). JAI.