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Dr. Megan Lorenz

Dr. Megan Lorenz is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Augustana College. She started teaching at Augustana in fall of 2018 as a teaching fellow and officially joined the faculty as an assistant professor in fall of 2019. She earned her PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Developmental Science from the University of Iowa. She currently directs the Augustana Baby and Child Development (ABCD) Lab and gets to collaborate with a team of amazing research assistants (see them below!). Her research focuses on word learning, play, and differences in learning from books and screens. She also teaches courses on human development, play, and cognitive development. When she's not teaching or researching, Dr. Lorenz enjoys traveling, playing games with her family, and baking!

Current Student Researchers

Iratze Aceves

Senior

Rachel Jocson

Senior

Averie Taylor

Junior

Courtney Thames

Senior

Sam Vasich

Senior

Lab Alumni

Kara West (2024), student in the University of Iowa's iDREAM program

Nathanael Doyle (2023), Behavioral Health Specialist at Arrowhead Ranch

Natalie Freitag (2023), M.A. + Ph.D. Speech-Language Pathology Student at Ohio State University

Mary Clare Koebel (2023), Researcher at the MUSC Health Institute of Psychiatry

Kelsey Notestein (2023), Research assistant at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Rebecca Smuck (2023), M.A. Speech-Language Pathology Student at the University of Kansas

Grace Witecha (2023), M.A. Speech-Language Pathology Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jeffrey Flinchem (2022), M.A. in Mental Health Counseling

Summer Hall (2022), M.A. Applied Behavioral Analysis

Kayla Dillon (2021), OTD + Ph.D. Student of Occupational Therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brett Niederer (2021), OTD, Practicing Occupational Therapist

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