Dr. Adams is also the director of the graduate program in Developmental Science. After earning her B.A. in Psychobiology from Wheaton College (MA), Dr. Adams pursued her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. During that time, Dr. Adams was the recipient of a T32 training fellowship through the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium, where she worked with the Childhood Asthma Research Team to to study health disparities in childhood asthma. Dr. Adams also went on to complete her clinical internship in Pediatric Psychology at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium.