Doris Bergen, Center Co-Director, Educational Psychology,
email: bergend@muohio.edu, (513) 529-6622

Christopher Wolfe, Center Co-Director, Interdisiplinary Studies,
email: wolfecr@muohio.edu, (513) 529-5670

Tom Southern
Educational Psychology
email: southewt@muohio.edu

Valerie Freysinger, Physical Education, Health and Sports Studies,
email: freysivj@muohio.edu, (513) 529-2710

Yvette Harris, Psychology
email: harrisyr@po.muohio.edu, (513) 529-2009

Charles Hennon, Associate Director, Family Studies and Social Work,
hennoncb@MUOhio.Edu, (513) 529-4908

Gary Peterson
Family Studies & Social Work
email: petersgw@muohio.edu

Tom Southern
Educational Psychology
email: southewt@muohio.edu

Aimin Wang, Educational Psychology,
email: wanga@muohio.edu, (513) 529-2432

Peter Magolda, Educational Leadership
email: magoldpm@muohio.edu

Kouider Mokhtari, Teacher Education
email: mokhtak@muohio.edu, (513) 529-6469

Lawrence Sherman , Educational Psychology, (Cooperative Goal Structures, Humor Studies, Early Childhood Social Development)
email: shermalw@muohio.edu

Sharon Bogan, Executive Director of MALACHI Middletown, OH 45044
email: sbogan@mcsd.k12.oh.us

Nancy T. Gates, Licensed and Certified Speech-Language Pathologist
21 Lynn Ave, Suite 107-A Oxford, OH 45056; (513) 523-5157 email: ntgates@verizon.net

Rod Hilterbran, Director, Special Education, Middletown Schools
Middletown City Schools
1515 Girard Ave.; Middletown, OH 45044; (513)423-0781
email: rhilterbran@mcsd.k12.oh.us

Janet Kretschmer, Principal, McGuffey School, Oxford
McGuffey Foundation School
5128 Westgate Dr.; Oxford, OH 45056; (513)523-7742
email: jkmfs@woh.rr.com

Chris Hurr, Superintendent Butler County MRDD
Butler County Board MRDD
155 Donald Drive; Fairfield, OH 45014; (513)867-5962 email: chrish@butlermrdd.org

Shari Wade, Adjunct Professor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Children's Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Ave.; Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039; (513)523-7075
email: wades0@chmcc.org

Suzanne Prescott, Director, Butler County Success Project

Anne Britt, Northern Illinois University:
Psycholinguistics

M. Anne Britt received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University. Her interests include both theoretical and applied issues related to learning and reasoning from multiple texts. Along with her colleagues, Gareth Gabrys and Charles Perfetti, she has designed a web-based learning environment to help students learn from multiple history documents. Currently she is investigating students' comprehension and production of written arguments to develop a Web-based instructional program for teaching argument skills. As a result of these Web endeavor, she has become interested in the challenges that the Web creates for education and how students' access to the Web can benefit or hinder learning.

Valerie Reyna, Cornell University

Her research, which has focused on false memories in children and risky decision-making in youth, has generated numerous publications and millions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and private foundations.

From 2001-2003, Dr. Reyna took a leave to serve as the Senior Research Advisor and Senior Scientist in the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the United States Department of Education. In that role, she worked to assure that research sponsored by OERI met high standards of scientific quality and provided the information and evidence needed to improve the practice of education in the United States. Dr. Reyna assisted the Assistant Secretary in creating a new federal research agency, the Institute of Education Sciences, reforming peer-review as well as other federal policies.

Dr. Reyna has been President of the Arizona Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, President of the Association of Women Faculty, and a member of the Arizona Governor's Task Force on Educational Reform, among many other services to groups and organizations. At the national level, her service included membership on the editorial boards of five scientific journals, and permanent membership on study sections of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Reyna received her undergraduate degree from Clark University and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Rockefeller University.

Dr. Stephan Wilson, Professor, University of Nevada, Reno.

Dr. Stephan Wilson is professor in and chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He did his undergraduate at Wabash University, received his M.S. in Child and Family and Ph.D. in Human Ecology both from the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Wilson was a US Peace Corps teacher in Kenya (’76-’78) and recently (2000-’01) returned on a Fulbright Fellowship as a Visiting Professor at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. He has held positions as department chair, and as director of Graduate Studies. He has over fifty publications, has held office in natural and international professional societies, and has chaired dozens of thesis and dissertation committees.

Dr. Wilson’s research program has focused, most recently, on adolescent social competence across cultures. This work involves examination of family and other influences on youth connectedness/separateness, required adult social skills, self-esteem, and achievement. Other areas of his research have include rural and Appalachian families, cross cultural families (Kenyan and Chinese), and family social capital influences on developmental and status attainment outcomes.

Dr. Sian Beilcok

Dr. Sian L. Beilock is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Chicago. She received a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and Ph.D.s in both Kinesiology (sport psychology and motor learning) and Psychology (cognitive psychology) from Michigan State University in 2003. These dual degrees reflect Dr. Beilock's interest in examining the cognitive processes governing performance across different task types, performance environments, and levels of expertise.

Dr. Beilock's research interests include attention and executive control processes governing complex cognitive and sensorimotor skills, memorial substrate of skill execution, expertise, skill performance under pressure and stereotype threat, and embodied cognition. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) and she received the young investigator award for distinguished research in sport psychology and motor learning from the International Society of Sport Psychology in 2005.

Doris Bergen, Center Codirector
Educational Psychology, (Early Intervention/Education, Children's Humor, Play and Learning)
email: bergend@muohio.edu
Homepage

Christopher Wolfe, Center Codirector
Interdisciplinary Studies, (Cognition and Cognitive Development, Reasoning Problem Solving, Computer Assisted Learning Judgement Under Uncertainty)
email: wolfecr@muohio.edu
Homepage

Jhan Berry
(EDP)
email: berryjd@muohio.edu

Robert Burke
(EDT)
email: burkerw@muohio.edu

Kevin Bush
(FSW)
email: bushkr@muohio.edu

Jason Abbitt
(EDP)
email: abbittjt@muohio.edu

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
email: baileym@muohio.edu

Paula Boxie
Teacher Education
email: boxiep@muohio.edu

Fofi Constantinidou
Speech Pathology and Audiology
email: constaf@muohio.Edu
Reference/bio sheet

R. Hays Cummins
Interdisciplinary Studies
email: cumminrh@muohio.edu
Homepage
Reference Page

Michele Dickey
Educational Psychology, (Instructional design, Game design, Distance learning)
email: dickeymd@muohio.edu

Joan Fopma-Loy
Nursing
email: fopmaljj@muohio.edu

Valerie Freysinger
Physical Education - Health and Sport Studies, (Learning/Development in Context of Leisure)
email: freysiv@po.muohio.edu

Amy Glaspey
Speech Pathology
email: glaspeam@muohio.edu

Yvette Harris
Psychology, (Maternal Teaching, Memory Development in Pre-School Kids)
email: harrisyr@muohio.edu

Charles Hennon, Associate Director
Family Studies and Social Work, (Family theory, Family stress, Rural families, Cross-cultural family studies, Family life education)
email: hennoncb@muohio.Edu
Reference/bio sheet

Kathleen Hutchinson
Speech Pathology and Audiology, (Language Delay and Auditory Skills, Amplification use for Delayed Children)
email: hutchik@po.muohio.edu

Kevin Jones
Educational Psychology
email: joneskm4@muohio.edu

Ji-Young Lim
Family Studies & Social Work
email: limj@muohio.edu

Peter Magolda
Educational Leadership
email: magoldpm@muohio.edu

Thomas Misco
Teacher Education
email: miscotj@muohio.edu

Kouider Mokhtari
email: mokhtak@muohio.edu

Chris Myers
Interdisciplinary Studies, (Discovery and Community Oriented Science Education, Ecology, Children's Literature and Writing)
email: myersca@muohio.edu

W. Sean Newsome
(FSW)
email: newsomws@muohio.edu

Carl Paternite
Psychology, (Developmental Psychopathology Childhood Hyperactivity, Race Awareness, Assessment of Family Environment)
email: paternce@muohio.edu
Homepage

Anthony Peguera
Sociology & Gerontology
email: pegueraa@muohio.edu

Gary Peterson
Family Studies & Social Works
email: petersgw@muohio.edu

Elise Radina
(FSW)
email: radiname@muohio.edu

Lawrence Sherman
Educational Psychology, (Cooperative Goal Structures, Humor Studies, Early Childhood Social Development)
email: shermalw@muohio.edu
Homepage

Cecilia Shore
Psychology, (Language, Cognition and Play Development in Infants/Toddlers)
email: shorec@muohio.edu
Homepage

Tom Southern
email: southewt@muohio.Edu

James Swartz
Educational Psychology
email: swartzjd@muohio.edu

Aimin Wang
Educational Psychology, (The Construct of Self-Perception Viewed from Cross-Cultural Perspectives)
email: wanga@muohio.edu
Homepage

Rose Marie Ward
(PHS)
email: wardrm1@muohio.edu

Leah Wasburn-Moses
email: wasbur1h@muohio.Edu

Paula Webster
Teacher Education
email: pwebster@muohio.edu

Katherine Wickstrom
email: wickstkf@muohio.Edu