College of Education and Human Development

Institute of Child Development

Danruo Zhong

  • Doctoral Student

  • Institute of Child Development
    Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall
    51 East River Parkway
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

  • zhong350@umn.edu
Danruo Zhong

Areas of interest

Adolescents and youth; Developmental neuroscience; Early childhood; Hormones and behavior; Early life stress

Degrees

BA Journalism & Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2014 
MA Psychology, Columbia University, 2017

Biography

Danruo is a first-year doctoral student in the Developmental Science track in ICD working with Dr. Megan Gunnar and Dr. Kathleen Thomas. Her research interests lie in stress neurobiology through childhood and adolescence. She is particularly interested in how early life adversity and environmental toxins shape children and adolescents’ central stress response system (e.g. HPA Axis), and how they might affect children’s brain development as well as their mental and physical health in the long run.

Danruo is a first-year doctoral student in the Developmental Science track in ICD working with Dr. Megan Gunnar and Dr. Kathleen Thomas. Her research interests lie in stress neurobiology through childhood and adolescence. She is particularly interested in how early life adversity and environmental toxins shape children and adolescents’ central stress response system (e.g. HPA Axis), and how they might affect children’s brain development as well as their mental and physical health in the long run.