William E. Copeland is a Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont. He earned his B.A. degree in Psychology at Wheaton College in 1997 and earned his Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont in 2004. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Duke University Medical Center in 2005. He is also currently an investigator on the Duke Preschool Anxiety Study, the Fast Track Intervention Trial, the University of Vermont Wellness Study, and Project RAISE. Across all of these studies, his research program has focused on understanding the development of emotional and behavioral health across the lifespan.