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Education
Ph.D . Completed December 1992:
University of Texas at Austin
Major: Human Experimental Psychology: Sensory Vision and Visual
Perception
Minor: Math and Applied Science
Title: Effects of Eccentricity and Convergence on the Critical
Disparity Gradient.
M.A. Completed August 1989: University of
Texas at Austin
Major: Human Experimental Psychology: Sensory Vision and Visual
Perception
Minor: Statistics and Math
Title: The Interaction of Color and Luminance in Random-dot Stereograms
Controlled for Chromatic Aberrations.
B.A. Completed May 1987: University of
Texas at Austin
Major: Honors Liberal Arts (Plan II); in addition completed basic
sequence in honors mechanical engineering.
Title: A Comparative Evaluation Testing the Validity of the
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Finger Tapping Instrument.
Academic Experience
July 2008 – May 2009: Distinguished Visiting
Professor USAFA (Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership)
January 2006 - June 2008: Co-director of the SFA
Teaching Excellence Center
April 2003 - full professor promotion approved by
Board of Regents :)
Sept. 2002 - Dec. 2005: Graduate Program
Coordinator for Psychology Department
April 1999 - associate professor promotion
approved by Board of Regents
April 1998 - tenure approved by Board of Regents
May 1996 - August 2002: In charge of development
and operations of new Psychology Dept. computer lab
Jan 1993 - Aug 1999: Assistant Professor, Stephen
F. Austin State University
Fall 1992: Lab Instructor--Statistics and Research
Methodology, UT Austin
Fall 1991: Instructor for Statistical Methods in
Psychology, UT Austin
Fall 1987 - Spring 1992: Teaching Assistant UT
Austin
Awards
- AAUW Community Service in Education Award 2008
- Florence L. Denmark National Faculty Advisor
Award (Psi Chi) 2007
- Psi Chi Regional Faculty Advisor Award for
2004-2005 in the Southwestern Region
- College Nominee for the Texas Piper Teaching
Award 2003, 2005
- SFA Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for
Teaching 2000
- SFA President's Lagniappe Award Fall 1998
(for work on the ACE/Kellogg Project to revitalize faculty)
- College of Liberal Arts Teaching Excellence
Award 1998
- SFA President's Lagniappe Award Spring 1998
(for efforts reworking New Faculty Orientation)
- AAUW Community Service Award 1998
- Leadership in Service Award 1996
Grants, Fellowships, etc.
- Thelma Hunt Research Grant 2008 (Psi Chi): An
Implementation and Evaluation of Online Geographical Maps of Psi Chi
Chapters
- Reading Efficiency Using a New Speed-Reading
Application (funded by MindTalent through SFA Sponsored Research,
August 2007)
- Summer research support from the San Jose State
University Foundation in conjunction with NASA Ames (1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- Faculty Research Grant 1997-1998: Visual Search
Using Naturalistic Stimuli (1-14035)
- Faculty Research Grant 1995-1996: An Assessment
of the Size-Disparity Correlation as an Explanation for Decreases in
the Critical Disparity Gradient with Eccentricity (114110)
- Faculty Research Grant 1993-1994: Individual
Differences and a Re-evaluation of the Stereoscopic Fusional Area
(1140.35)
- Emma F. Clark Fellowship 1990
- John Wallace Dallenbach Fellowship 1989
Professional
Affiliations
- Southwestern Psychological Association
(President 2008-2009; President Elect 2007-2008; State Representative
1999-2001, 2001-2003)
- Vision Sciences Society
- Psychonomic Society
- The Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology (1992-2006)
- American Psychological Society
- Sigma XI (The Scientific Research Society)
- The Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- American Association of University Women
- Psi Chi (Regional Advisory Committee 2002-2006)
- Professional and Organizational Development
Network in Higher Education
- Texas Faculty Development Network (member of
Executive Committee)
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