Sears Plans to Leave College To Take New Post at Stanford

Robert R. Sears, professor of Education and Child Psychology, will leave the University next year to become head of the Psychology Department at Stanford University.

Since 1949, Sears has headed the Graduate School of Education's Laboratory of Human Development, a project he started. Housed in Palfry House, the laboratory studies children of the pre-school age.

Sears, who spent his undergraduate years at Stanford before going to Yale for a Ph.D., grew up in Palo Alto, California. His father was also a Stanford professor.