Highest Degree:
Ph.D. from University of Michigan Date in 1971

Teaching interests:
Dr. Newman's teaching interests include lifespan development, adolescent-parent relationships, theories of human development, psychosocial theory, and parent involvement and its relationship to academic achievement. 

Research interests:
Research interests focus on parent-child relationships in early adolescence, factors that promote success in the transition to high school among low-income youth, and the role of parenting as a stimulus to adult development through the process of revisitation. Dr. Newman is also interested in the use of the cohort sequential design as an approach to the study of development.

Other scholarly and/or creative work:
Other scholarly work includes writing in the field of human development, especially the lifespan textbook, "Development through life: A psychosocial approach" co-authored with Philip R. Newman, which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and is now in its 7th edition, and the extension of psychosocial theory through the construct of group identity versus alienation.

Special Administrative or Professional Roles:
Dr. Newman is chair of the department of Human Development and Family Studies.

Selected Publications (1995 to present):
Newman, B.M., & Newman, P.R. (1999, 7th edition) Development through life: A psychosocial approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Newman, B.M., & Newman, P.R. (1997).Childhood and Adolescence. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.

Newman, P. R., & Newman, B. M.. (1999). What does it take to have a positive impact on minority students' college retention? Adolescence, 34 (135), 483-492.

Newman, B. M., Lohman B. J., Myers , M. C., Newman P. R. (2000). Experiences of urban youth navigating the transition to ninth grade. Journal of Youth and Society, 31 , (4), 387-416.

Newman, B. M., Myers, M.C., Newman, P. R., Lohman, B. J., and Smith, V. L. (2000). The transition to high school for academically promising, urban, low-income African American youth. Adolescence, 35, (137), 45-66. 

Links:
http://www.grade9.org