Dr. Amanda Rose is the chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. Dr. Rose has a joint appointment in WGST and the Department of Psychological Sciences. Dr. Rose received her doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Illinois in 1999 and joined the faculty in the Department of Psychological Sciences as an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri in Fall 1999. She earned tenure in 2005 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. Through her career, Dr. Rose’s research and teaching has focused on gender. Her research focuses on promoting well-being among girls. Specifically. Dr. Rose studies girl’s friendships and how they can protect, and sometimes confer risk, for internalizing symptoms, such as depression. Dr. Rose has published over 60 papers, and her work has been funded by both the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Development. Dr. Rose’s classroom teaching has focused on gender as well as she has developed and teaches courses, such as the psychology of gender and women’s professional development. Dr. Rose also demonstrates a strong commitment to mentoring doctoral students and junior faculty, especially students and faculty who are underrepresented in academia. In recognition of these activities, Dr. Rose is a recipient of the prestigious William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellent awarded by the University of Missouri.