Theresa Welles was appointed the new director of the Penn State Psychological Clinic, according to a release. Welles started in the position on March 8.
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The award is given to a full-time faculty member who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching, research or creative accomplishment and service.
Buss is a developmental scientist whose research focuses on behavioral, biological and environmental factors associated with the development of childhood and teen anxiety symptoms. Her work spans multiple areas of research in the realm of social development, psychobiology and neuroscience. Her interest lies in the mechanisms of emotional development as they relate to temperament and anxiety development.
Her work is routinely funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and has resulted in the research group Parents and Children Together (PACT), which Buss founded and led until 2019 right before becoming department head.