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About the Institute:
People
 Ed Bowers
Assistant Research Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Lincoln Filene Building, Rm. 302
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-4489
Fax: (617) 627-5596
Email: ed.bowers@tufts.edu
Ed is an Assistant Research Professor at the Institute for Applied Research
in Youth Development. Currently he is Project Director for a grant
funded by the Thrive Foundation for Youth of Menlo Park, CA, the
purpose of which is to develop and test a toolkit of strategies,
rubrics, and videos that will increase the capacity of mentors in
youth-serving organizations to assist young people in the growth of
goal-management behaviors. Ed received both B.S. and M.Ed. degrees
from the University of Notre Dame (Go Irish!) and a Ph.D. in Applied
Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College. Ed has
experience teaching and working with students from the preschool to
the graduate level, both in the U.S. and abroad. His research
focuses on the influence of non-parental caregivers on the life
skills development of adolescents. In prior work, he has studied the
relationship between the caregiving behaviors of youth workers in a
residential treatment facility and the changes in social skills of
delinquent youth in their care. Presently, he is examining the role
of mentors in engendering positive youth development through their
impact on adolescent intentional self regulation.
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