Nicole Wiggs

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Nicole Wiggs is an assistant research professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP). She is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) who received her Ph.D. in school psychology from Pennsylvania State University in August 2017. Prior to beginning at Rutgers, Dr. Wiggs was working as a school psychology practitioner in Prince George's County, Maryland. Dr. Wiggs has also worked as a graduate assistant at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State (Clearinghouse), where she gained knowledge and experience in the development and implementation of evidence-based programs. She is also a member of the TeleSchool Psychology research team at Penn State, where she assists with leading the Social Media and Information Dissemination Project. At GSAPP, Dr. Wiggs works on the Rutgers Paraprofessional Coaching Project, which aims at providing professional development on evidence-based behavioral interventions to paraprofessionals in the schools. Her main research interests include externalizing disorders, evidence-based programs, implementation science, and social media use by school-based personnel.