On Thursday, December 14, 2023, Marisa Palance, Ph.D. candidate in the Educational Psychology program successfully defended her dissertation “Deprivation Specific and Neurocognitive Correlates of Children with Histories of Early Deprivation and Atypical Social Communication Problems.” Dr. Palance’s committee members are Dr. Francesca Pernice major advisor; Dr. Barry Markman; Dr. Do-Hong Kim; and Dr. Michael Behen.