Rona McCall is a developmental scientist, avid knitter, and coffee connoisseur. She teaches General Psychology, the Developmental Psychology sequence, Educational Psychology, and Human Sexuality courses in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
After receiving a BS in Psychology with a minor in German from Skidmore College, Dr. McCall moved to Hamburg, Germany where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar working at Margaretha-Rothe Gymnasium as an English Language teaching assistant and researching differences in cultural attitudes about education. Upon returning to the United States, she completed both her MS and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, she continued to explore the cognitive and sociocultural factors that impact academic performance.
Since joining Regis in 1995, Dr. McCall has been committed to including undergraduates in scholarly work. Her undergraduate Developmental Lab is working on a cross-sequential project that explores how the factors of mindset, resilience, and belongingness affect first generations college students’ academic success and college completion. Most recently, taking a life-course approach, her lab students are working on developing a project that will look at how the Covid crisis will impact the social and emotional development of emerging adults and the role resilience will play in their development.
