Carolyn Halpern

Carolyn Tucker Halpern is an American developmental psychologist and Professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she is Chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health. She is also the deputy director of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Alma mater	University of Houston
Scientific career
Fields	Developmental psychology
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	Personality correlates of maturational timing in black and white females  (1982)

Halpern graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston in 1976 with a BS in psychology. She then earned a MA (1979) and a PhD (1982) in developmental psychology also from the University of Houston.

External links

• Faculty page
• Curriculum Vitae