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John Colombo, Ph.D. |
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Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of
Psychology 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard 426 Fraser Hall Interim Director, Schiefelbusch
Institute for Life Span Studies 1000 Sunnyside Avenue 1052 Dole Human Development Center |
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Contact Information: |
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Psychology Department |
(785) 864-4131 |
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Schiefelbusch Life Span Institute |
(785) 864-4295 |
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Wakarusa Research Facility laboratory |
(785) 312-5345 |
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Edwards Campus laboratory |
(785) 864-8590 |
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Carlson/Colombo laboratory, Smith Center, KU Med
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(913) 588-5743 |
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Email |
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History I received my PhD in Psychology (1981) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After one year at Youngstown State University (1981-1982), and
six years (1982-1988) as a research associate with the Bureau
of Child Research at the University of Kansas, I joined the faculty of
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at the University of Kansas in 1988, and
have been a member of the Department of
Psychology since January of 2002. Research My major research interests are in the
developmental cognitive neuroscience of attention and learning, with a
special focus on early individual differences in these areas and how they
relate to the typical and atypical development of cognitive and intellectual
function. I conduct research in laboratories at the KU Edwards Campus and the KU Medical Center, as well as at the Wakarusa
Research Facility in Lawrence. Collaborations I collaborate with a number of faculty members
at the University of Kansas and elsewhere.
Currently, my collaborations
include ongoing research and writing projects with the following scientists
at other institutions: Dr.
Susan E. Carlson, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, the University
of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA Dr. Laura
Caulfield, Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns
Hopkins State University, Baltimore, MD, USA Nelly
Zavaleta, MD, Instituto
de Investigaciones Nutricional,
Lima (Molina), Peru Dr.
David Thomas (Department of Psychology) and Dr. Tay Kennedy (Department of Nutrition), Oklahoma State
University Dr. John
Richards, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Dr. Derek Houston,
University of Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA Publications A list of my publications (with some links to
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Administrative Duties, Service, and Affiliations In addition to my research program and teaching,
my administrative responsibilities at the University of Kansas also include
the following: Interim Director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span
Studies Co-Director and Principal Investigator, University of Kansas Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC). Co-Investigator and Director of the Participant Recruitment Core of the KU Center for Biobehavioral
Neuroscience in Communicative Disorders Faculty chair, Human Subjects Committee on the Lawrence Campus (HSCL). HSCL is
the campus-wide institutional review board for research conducted with human
subjects. The committee is administered by the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. In addition to my primary faculty appointment in Psychology, I am
also an affiliated faculty member
with the following interdisciplinary programs: Child Language Doctoral Program (Mabel Rice, Director) Clinical Child Psychology
Doctoral Program (Michael
Roberts, Director) Neurosciences Doctoral
Program (Eli Michaelis,
Director) National Service |
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Secretary of the International Society for Infant Studies
(ISIS) Associate Editor for Child
Development, the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Editorial Board member for the following
journals Infant
Behavior and Development |
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Teaching I teach a number
of courses in various departments at the University of Kansas, as my other
duties allow. |
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NUMBER |
TITLE |
LAST OFFERED |
ENROLLMENT |
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PSYC 318 |
Cognitive Psychology |
Fall 2007 |
200-400 |
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PSYC 333 |
Child Psychology |
Spring 2007 |
300-500 |
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PSYC 430 |
Cognitive Development |
Fall 2001 |
50-100 |
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PSYC 480 |
Independent Study |
current (Fall ’08) |
5-15 |
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BIOL 449 |
Laboratory/Fieldwork in Human Biology |
current (Fall ’08) |
1-5 |
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PSYC 770 |
Cognitive Development |
Spring 2005 |
15-30 |
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SPLH 764 |
Infant Development (with N. Brady and S. Barlow) |
Spring 2007 |
10-20 |
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PSYC 800 |
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
Spring 2004 |
5-10 |
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PSYC 800 |
Cognition in Infancy |
Spring 2003 |
5-10 |
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PSYC 815 |
Design and Analysis for Developmental Research |
current (Fall ’08) |
10-15 |