We are proud to announce Dr. Veronica Whitford as this year’s Young Scholar in the annual Young Scholar Speaker Series. Dr. Whitford obtained her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She then completed two post-doctoral fellowships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: the first at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and the second at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research focuses on the behavioral and neural correlates of reading in children and adults with
diverse language and cognitive backgrounds.