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Weather Alert

Due to the winter weather forecast, all classes that begin at 6 p.m. or later at Kean’s main campus in Union will be conducted remotely today, Tuesday, February 11. Classes that begin before 6 p.m. will operate as normal.

Only essential personnel should report to work as required after 6 p.m. today. Employees with questions about their status should consult their supervisors. Kean Ocean will follow the Ocean County College schedule. All students and employees at Kean Ocean are encouraged to visit the OCC website for updates.

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Dr. Chung is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kean University, Union, NJ, USA. She received the Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis, USA.  Her academic journey began as a master's-level clinician, driven by a desire to develop effective treatment and prevention strategies. Before she came to the USA, she got her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. During her time in South Korea, she conducted Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy sessions for people with social phobia and schizophrenia. Recognizing the critical need to understand neural mechanisms underlying psychopathology, she focused her graduate research on the neural mechanisms of reward processing, social cognition, and cognitive control using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) under mentorship of Drs. Deanna Barch and Todd Braver. She further expanded her research to understand both typical and atypical adolescent development, specifically in emotion regulation and response inhibition, using fMRI, event-related potentials (ERP), and saliva hormone methods at Duke University and the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center. 

Her current research interests are to determine how pubertal development influences adolescents’ reward-based decision making, cognitive control and stress-induced immune function with a focus on sex differences.  

In her free time, she enjoys watching Bluey with her kids, and cooking Korean food!  

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