The University of Pittsburgh has named Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, the current Chair of the Department of Psychology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, as the next director of the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), effective Sept. 1.
In her nearly 20 years at Pitt, the chair of the Department of Psychology has built a robust program of research that investigates how socioeconomic inequality shapes and structures human development over the life course. She is also a senior scientist at the LRDC and over the past seven years has helped build the developmental processes and outcomes research area, consisting of multiple labs that focus on the social and developmental contexts of learning and human development.
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