Updated:	2001-08-31 10:26:41
Areas of Interest:	Infant and Child Development, School Readiness, Poverty, Malnutrition, Hunger & Food Insecurity
Position:	Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, URI
Organization:	Director, URI Feinstein Center of a Hunger Free America
Ph.D., Child Development, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland College Park, MD. Licensure Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru. A.B., Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Sophomore Year Abroad, Mexico City. PROJECTS Director; URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America, University of Rhode Island Board of Directors; Rhode Island Community Food Bank Advisor; Early Childhood Work Group, Evaluation committee, VT Agency of Human Services. Principal Investigator; Measuring Children’s Readiness for School. From the State of Vermont, Agency of Human Services, as part of the federal grant (DHHS), Vermont Partnership Project on Child Indicators. SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS Gorman, K. S., Lourie, A., & Choudhury, N. (in press) Differential patterns of development in IUGR and NBW infants: The interaction of birth weight, temperament and maternal behavior. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Gorman, K. Malnutrition and mother-infant interaction: Expanding the model of nutritional effects on development (1998). In C. Rovee-Collier & L. Lipsitt (Eds.) Advances in Infancy Research, 12. Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Co. Metallinos-Katsaras, E. & Gorman, K. (1998). Effects of under nutrition on growth and development. In D. Kessler & P. Dawson (Eds.) Pediatric Under nutrition: Failure to thrive in young children: A transdisciplinary approach. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co. Gorman, K. & Politt, E. (1997) The contribution of schooling to literacy in Guatemala. International Review of Education, 43, 283-298. CONTACT INFORMATION URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America Shepard Building Room 302 80 Washington Street, Providence Rhode Island 02903
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