Jennifer Daer Shields, an Oklahoma State third-year clinical psychology Ph.D. student, was recently awarded a $60,000 Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being from Chapin Hall, a research and policy center, at the University of Chicago. The award is designed to find and develop a new generation of leaders dedicated to and capable of creating practice and policy innovations that will enhance child development and improve the nation’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.

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