Dr. Cynthia Berg, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Utah, spoke on March 18 for UW Psychology's 2026 Distinguished Alumni lecture.
Dr. Berg received her BS in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1981. She went on to study at Yale University, where she received her PhD in 1987. She became a professor at the University of Utah, where she became a full professor in 2001 and, most recently, distinguished professor, a title she's held since 2018.
Berg presented a perspective on self- and social-regulation that guides her work across the lifespan. In addition to talking about transition points across the lifespan where coordination of self- and social-regulation are linked to diabetes outcomes — across adolescence; in young adulthood; and in late adulthood — she identified interventions that help to optimize the coordination of self- and social-regulation.