Alumna Endows Professorship in Honor of Her Father, Andy Holt
Julia Jaekel, associate professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies, has been named the inaugural Andrew D. Holt Endowed Professor.
Julia Jaekel, associate professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies, has been named the inaugural Andrew D. Holt Endowed Professor.
Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel, assistant professor of child and family studies at UT, and Dieter Wolke, professor of psychology at the University of Warwick, co-authored a study to answer this question.
According to a joint study from researchers at UT and the University of Warwick, and University of Brighton in the UK, gauging how long a twenty-month-old can wait to pick up a raisin can be linked to what that child’s attention and learning capacity will be at 8 years old.