Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Development
Dr Janet Y. Bang is a developmental scientist whose research focuses on how children communicate and learn about the world around them. Through her research and teaching she strives to build an understanding of child development that is true to the rich array of individual and cultural differences within and across diverse communities. She is dedicated to using her research to empower families and educators with new insights into how to support children’s development.
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About Janet Bang
Dr Janet Y. Bang is a developmental scientist whose research focuses on how children communicate and learn about the world around them. Through her research and teaching she strives to build an understanding of child development that is true to the rich array of individual and cultural differences within and across diverse communities. She is dedicated to using her research to empower families and educators with new insights into how to support children’s development.
| Present | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Child and Adolescent Development | |
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| 2017 - 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2022 - 2023 | SJSU Internal Seed Grant |
| San Jose State University | |
| $5,000 | |
| 2019 - 2020 | Postdoctoral Support Award |
| Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute | |
| $75,000 | |
| 2013 - 2016 | Strategic Training Fellow in Autism Research |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | |
| $20,000 | |
| 2014 - 2014 | Graduate Scholar Stipend |
| Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music | |
| $10,000 | |
| 2012 - 2013 | Shuk-Tak Liang Fellowship and Grad Excel Fellowship |
| McGill Faculty of Medicine Internal Studentship | |
| $12,000 | |
| 2006 - 2007 | Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program |
| UCLA | |
| $5,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| Present | Member, Daylong Audio Recordings of Children’s Linguistic Environments Consortium | Present | Member, International Congress for Infant Studies | Present | Member, Linguistic/Language Variation in Input Environments Around the World | Present | Member, Society for Research in Child Development |
Honors and Awards
- SJSU Peer Connections Certificate of Recognition
- McGill MedStar Award
- NeuroDevNet Spring Trainee Travel Award
- SCSD GREAT Travel Award
- SCSD Graduate Excellence Fellowship
- SCSD Annalee & Mark Abelson Travel Fund in Medicine
- SCSD Graduate Excellence Fellowship
- McGill Faculty of Medicine Graduate Student International Travel Fund
- CRBLM Travel Award
- McGill International Doctoral Award
- McGill Provost Graduate Fellowship
- 2022 SJSU Sybil Weir/John Galm Award
| 2017 | Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Specialization in Language Acquisition, McGill University | |
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| 2007 | B.S., Psychobiology, minor in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles | |
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