FICAP Provost Seminar Series

Gary W. Evans, PhD
Professor of Design and Environmental Analysis
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University


December 9, 2005
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium

co-sponsored by the Firearm & Injury Center at Penn (FICAP)

Biosketch:
Professor Evans is an environmental and developmental psychologist interested in how the physical environment affects human health and well being over life. His specific areas of expertise include environmental stress, children's environments, and the study of the developmental consequences of poverty.

Professor Evans is the 1997 recipient of the EDRA Career Award and Past-President of the Division of Environmental Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology. Evans spent the 1998-1999 academic year on a Senior National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for advanced training in human development. He has a Ph.D. in environmental psychology and spent a post-doctoral year training in psychoneuroendocrinology at the Karolinska Medical School in Stockholm, Sweden. Evans currently serves on the editorial boards of seven scholarly journals. Professor Evans has given several hundred lectures and invited talks in over 15 different countries.