Judith L. Newman, Ph.D.

judy newman
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Bioethics, Psychological and Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Health Humanities
Rock Ethics Institute Affilate
Sutherland, 312
Penn State Abington
1600 Woodland Road
Abington, PA 19001

Awards

  • Outstanding Faculty Advising/Mentoring Award, 2021
  • Outstanding Service Award, 2015
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, Penn State Abington, 2004; 2012
  • Outstanding Educator Award, 1999

Community Involvement

  • Penn State Abington Speaker’s Bureau
  • Board of Directors of Growth Opportunity Center

Children's concepts of family, illness, death; Parent/child interaction; Neurobehavioral disorders (ADHD, OCD, Tourette Syndrome); Research ethics

Selected Publications

(2022) Against their Will: The secret history of medical experimentation on children in America, Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory Dober. Penna.: Oxford Southern/Sunbury Press.

(2013) Against their Will: The secret history of medical experimentation on children in Cold War America, Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory Dober. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2007) The Body in Action: Perspectives on Embodiment and Development. In W. Overton, U. Müeller, & J. L. Newman (Eds.), Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Conciousness (pp. 313-342). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, Temple University

"Discovering Causes of Illness: History of models of disease parallels child's concept development" at the Annual Conference of the International Jean Piaget Society, “Putting Development back into Evolution”, Philadelphia, June 2022.

"Student activism and the removal of eponyms that glorify unethical researchers: Class projects with applied outcomes" at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethics across the Curriculum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, October 2022

HDFS 229 Infant and Child Development
HDFS 301 Values and Ethics in HHD Professions
HDFS 315 Family Development
HDFS 445/Psych 416 Adult Development and Aging