Innovations/Enterprises in Which I Have Played a Major Role

Founding the Wake Forest University Graduate Student Association

Founding the Yale Psychological Society and Psi Chi Chapter

Founding the Cognitive Development Society and organizing its first two meetings

Designing and Building the UNC Faculty-Staff Recreation Association’s club house, pool house, play ground, volleyball court, and disc golf course

Launching the Society for Research in Child Development’s journal Child Development Perspectives, and serving as Associate Editor of the journal for three years.

Developing Carolina’s Priority Registration Policy.

Launching Carolina’s First Year Fellows program and other aspects of the Enrollment Excellence initiative.

Launching the Carolina Athletic Department’s Faculty-Staff Family Day event series.

Establishing the UNC-Duke Collaborative Program in Developmental Psychology

Establishing the Carolina Seminar on Behavioral Research on Minority Populations

Initiating the Center for Developmental Science’s Durham Child Health & Development study

Developing many measurement and assessment tools that are widely used. These tools include:

MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI)

First Year Inventory (FYI)

Retrospective Self Report of Behavioral Inhibition (RSRI)

Several measures of Parent Perception of Infant Intentionality (PPII) including the Infant Intentionality Interview (III) and the Infant Intentionality Tape (IIT)

Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ)