Jennifer Brown Urban

• Department: Family and Child Studies
• Office: University Hall 4205
• Phone: (973) 655-6884
• Email: urbanj@mail.montclair.edu
• MSU Faculty/Staff Profile: http://www.montclair.edu/~urbanj

Scholarly Interests and Specialties

• Applied Developmental Science
• Positive Youth Development
• Developmental Systems Theories
• Out-of-school Activity Involvement and the Impact on Positive and Negative Indicators of Development
• Ecological Factors as Context for Development
• Effective Means of Integrating Research and Practice
• Evaluation and Program Planning Particularly for Youth Development Programs
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Programs
• Public Health Programs

Professional Association Memberships

• Society for Research in Child Development
• Society for Research on Adolescence
• Society for the Study of Human Development
• American Evaluation Association

Reviewer for the following professional journals

• Applied Developmental Science
• Journal of Youth and Adolescence
• Journal for Research on Adolescence

Other Types of Reviews

• National Institute of Justice, Reviewer of Grant Applications
• American Psychological Society,    Reviewer of Conference Proposals

Work With Schools and Other Agencies

• Materials Science and Engineering Centers educational outreach (National Science Foundation funded center grants) - working with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) practitioners/educators to develop program evaluation and planning capacity. Cornell Cooperative Extension - working with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) practitioners/educators to develop program evaluation and planning capacity.