Research Specialties
Academic Interventions and Reading
Assistant Professor at the Cooperative Extension Division at UNL. Areas of interest are instructional technology, non-formal science and technology, and youth development. |
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Professor at UNL in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education. Areas of specialty are design and implementation of Web-based communications systems. |
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Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL, specializing in academic performance problems. |
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Senior Lecturer at UNL Special Education and Communication |
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Associate Professor at UNL, Special Education and Communication Disorders. Research interests include literacy development and instruction and the use of technology to support literacy activities. |
Assistant Research Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. |
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Associate Professor in the Center for Curriculum and Instruction at UNL. Major area of research is in teacher learning. |
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Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Director of the Department of Education and Child Development at Munroe-Meyer Institute. |
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Associate Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research interests include dual language programming and play assessment for young children. |
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Lecturer in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests focus on dropout prevention and transitional services for youth from institutional facilities to public schools. |
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Research Assistant Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focus is on children and youth with attention deficits such as ADHD and students with learning disabilities. |
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Staff Scientist for the ANDRILL Program. Research interests center on evolution of the Antarctic continent with a focus on Cenozoic climate and ice-sheet history. |
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Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests include improving students’ writing ability and interventions to increase writing performance in the classroom. |
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Research Associate Professor with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focusing on teacher/parent use and perceived value of video, CD-ROM, web, print, and DVD media platforms. |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research includes addressing assessment and intervention issues of youth with language disorders. |
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Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL and Co-Director of the Great Plains Institute for Reading and Writing. Research in reading acquisition, disabilities, and research methods. |
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Assistant Professor at Munroe-Meyer Institute. Research interest is in the area of academic interventions, particularly reading interventions. |
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research focus is on teacher beliefs and expertise in literacy instruction. |
Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors and Outcomes
| Doug Abbott | Professor, Child, Youth & Family Studies at UNL. Areas of Interest are sexual identity development, effects of political violence on Israeli and Palestinian youth, and risk and protective factors in adolescent sexual abstinence. |
Professor of Psychology at UNL. Research interests focus on adolescent development, psychological well-being, and risk behavior. |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Youth & Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include prostitution and Latino immigration in rural meat packing communities. |
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Director of the NEBHANDS projects, a statewide effort to develop an integrated behavioral health system of care that incorporates faith-based and community organizations. |
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Assistant Research Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. |
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Bureau of Sociological Research. Main research interest is in mental health and substance use among high-risk adolescents. |
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Lecturer in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests focus on dropout prevention and transitional services for youth from institutional facilities to public schools. |
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Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest includes factors that predict and influence behaviors related to health. |
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Professor in Psychology at UNL. Research focuses on risk and protective factors associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking, homeless youth, and Latino families. |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research includes addressing assessment and intervention issues of youth with language disorders. |
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Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at UNL. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
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Research Assistant Professor in Special Education and Communication Disorders an UNL. Research interests are in implementing and sustaining school-wide positive behavior and academic supports. |
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| Duane Shell |
Research Associate Professor at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology. Research interests include self-regulation and motivational influences on behavior and cognition as manifest in educational and public health settings. |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research interests are in social inequality and substance use, specifically among the Latino population. |
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Associate Professor of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include high-risk adolescents and youth. |
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Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include substance abuse among Native American children and families, risk factors and mental illness associated with homeless youth, and resilience. |
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Director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research interests focus on child and adolescent development and public policy. |
Adults
| Linda Boeckner |
Professor in the Panhandle Research and Extension Center. Research interest is in developing nutrition education and health programs to address Nebraska adults though the extension education system. |
| Jody Koenig Kellas |
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UNL. Research focus is on narratives and storytelling in family and relational communication contexts. |
| Julia McQuillan | Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research focus is on the social and behavioral consequences of infertility. |
| Jordan Soliz |
Assistant Professor at UNL in the Department of Communication Studies. Research interests include family and interpersonal communication and intergroup prejudice. |
Bullying and School Violence
| Juan Casas |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research program focuses primarily on relational aggression and victimization. |
| Jody Isernhagen |
Associate Professor in Educational Administration at UNL. Research interests are in school improvement and leadership. |
| Reece Peterson |
Professor of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research includes identification of and interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, student discipline in school, and school violence prevention. |
| Susan Swearer |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research includes comorbidity of psychological disorders in youth, psychopathology, and cognitive-behavioral interventions with youth and their families. |
Culturally Relevant Social, Educational, and Familial Topics
| Eric Buhs |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests in the role of peer rejection linked to social behavior in the classroom and to students’ emotional adjustment and achievement outcomes. |
| Gustavo Carlo |
Associate Professor in Psychology at UNL. Research focus is on the individual, parenting, and culture-related correlates of positive social and moral behaviors in children and adolescents. |
| Juan Casas |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research program focuses primarily on relational aggression and victimization. |
| Lisa Crockett |
Professor of Psychology at UNL. Research interests focus on adolescent development, psychological well-being, and risk behavior. |
| Rochelle Dalla |
Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include prostitution and Latino immigration in rural meat packing communities. |
| John DeFrain |
Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Family and Community Development. Research interests focus on family strengths and challenges. |
| Carolyn Pope Edwards |
Professor in Psychology and Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests are in education and studying the world-recognized, family-centered early childhood programs of North and Central Italy. |
| Amy Goodburn |
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UNL. Research interests are in teacher development and multicultural and critical pedagogies in English Education curriculum. |
| Dan Hoyt |
Professor of Sociology at UNL and Director of the Bureau of Sociological Research. Main research interest is on mental health and substance use among high-risk adolescents. |
| Lisa Kelly-Vance |
Associate Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research interests are in dual language programming and play assessment for young children. |
| Margaret Latta |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in technological reasoning in teacher education. |
| Helen Moore |
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at UNL. Research focus is on educational stratification, including race, class and gender issues as they link to economic structures. |
| Ian Newman |
Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest includes factors that predict and influence behaviors related to health. |
| Marcela Raffaelli |
Professor in Psychology at UNL. Research focuses on risk and protective factors associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking, homeless youth, and Latino families. |
| Loukia Sarroub |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in exploring language and literacy as cultural and sociological phenomena. |
| Michael Scheel |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL and Director of the Counseling Psychology program. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
| Duane Shell |
Research Associate Professor at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology. Research interests include self-regulation and motivational influences on behavior and cognition as manifest in educational and public health settings. |
| Jordan Soliz |
Assistant Professor at UNL in the Department of Communication Studies. Research interests include family and interpersonal communication and intergroup prejudice. |
| Rosalie Torres Stone |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research interests are in social inequality and substance use, specifically among the Latino population. |
| Lauree Tilton-Weaver |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research focuses broadly on psychosocial development during adolescence and early adulthood. |
| Oksana Yakushko |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests include immigrant's mental health, psychology's responses to globalization, women and women's movements. |
Developmental Disabilities
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Psychology at
Munroe-
Meyer institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation at the
University of
Nebraska Medical Center. Research and clinical interests
stress related
disorders and pain management, parent training, and
behavioral dentistry. |
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Assistant Professor in the Special Education and Communication Disorders Department at UNL. Research interests are in language development, early intervention, communication, and severe disabilities. |
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Director of the NEBHANDS projects, a statewide effort to develop an integrated behavioral health system of care that incorporates faith-based and community organizations. |
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| Malinda Eccarius |
Senior Lecturer at UNL Special Education and Communication Disorders. Research interests include instructional illustration visual literacy and cognitive emphasis instruction with students who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Director of the Department of Education and Child Development at Munroe-Meyer Institute. |
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Lecturer in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests focus on dropout prevention and transitional services for youth from institutional facilities to public schools. |
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Research Assistant Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focus is on children and youth with attention deficits such as ADHD and students with learning disabilities. |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests in contextual factors that influence children’s communication patterns at home and school. |
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Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests include improving students’ writing ability and interventions to increase writing performance in the classroom. |
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Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research includes addressing assessment and intervention issues of youth with language disorders. |
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Omaha Scottish Rite Masonic Professor of Pediatrics at UNMC, Director of the Hattie B. Munroe Center for Human Genetics and Associate Director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation. |
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Staff Psychologist at the Munroe-Meyer Institute and Associate Professor in Pediatrics at UNMC. Research interests are in parent training, child compliance issues, and early childhood education. |
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Associate Professor in the Communication Disorders and Special Education Department at UNL. Research interests in conducting studies in school and home settings for children/youth with severe disabilities. |
Dual-Language Programming and Outcomes
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research program focuses primarily on relational aggression and victimization. |
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Associate Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research interests are in dual language programming and play assessment for young children. |
Early Childhood Development, Early Literacy, and Play Skills
| Linda Boeckner |
Professor in the Panhandle Research and Extension Center. Research interest is in developing nutrition education and health programs to address Nebraska adults though the extension education system. |
| Susan Churchill |
Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests focus on connections between home and child care. Specific interests are in the study of continuity between parents and teachers. |
| Cynthia Cress |
Assistant Professor in the Special Education and Communication Disorders Department at UNL. Research interests are in language development, early intervention, communication, and severe disabilities. |
| Beth Doll |
Professor, Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest is assessing and intervening to enhance the caretaking systems that support children and adolescents. |
| Carolyn Pope Edwards |
Professor in Psychology and Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests are in education and studying the world-recognized, family-centered early childhood programs of North and Central Italy. |
| Amy Goodburn |
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UNL. Research interests are in teacher development and multicultural and critical pedagogies in English Education curriculum. |
| David Hansen |
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at UNL. Research interest area is child maltreatment, including identification, reporting, assessment and intervention with victims and families. |
| Barbara Jackson |
Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Director of the Department of Education and Child Development at Munroe-Meyer Institute. |
| Lisa Kelly-Vance |
Associate Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research interests are in dual language programming and play assessment for young children. |
| Lisa Knoche |
Research Assistant Professor, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, and Project Director, Getting Ready Project. Research interests focus on social development in child care settings, child care characteristics, and intervention and prevention efforts for at-risk children and families. |
| Marjorie Kostelnik |
Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences at UNL. Areas of teaching and scholarship include child socialization and developmentally appropriate practices with young children. |
| Chris Marvin |
Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests in contextual factors that influence children’s communication patterns at home and school. |
| Christina Perry |
Senior lecturer in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at UNL. Research interests include health behavior motivation theory, community-based intervention planning/evaluation and school health issues. |
| Michelle Rupiper |
Senior lecturer in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests are in teacher preparation and how to help pre-service teachers acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be effective and efficient teachers. |
| Ann Schutte |
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UNL. Research interests are in the area of cognitive development in early childhood, specifically in the role of experience in the development of spatial cognition. |
| Susan Sheridan |
Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology at UNL. Director, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. Research interests are in relationships between parents and teachers, and identifying meaningful ways to establish home-school partnerships. |
| Kaye Stanek-Krogstrand |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNL. Primary research focus is the nutrition of children and youth both in community and clinical settings. |
| Julia Torquati |
Associate Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Specialization in child/development and early childhood education, and her current work focuses on parenting in homeless families. |
| Gwen Weber |
Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Research areas include marriage and family therapy and parenting skills. |
| Kathy Wilson |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research focus is on teacher beliefs and expertise in literacy instruction. |
Families and Step-Families
| Beth Birnstihl |
Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension, University of Nebraska and 4-H Program Administrator. Areas of interest include the needs of teenagers and middle school children and gerontology-needs of aging Nebraskans. |
| Richard Bischoff |
Associate Professor, Child, Youth and Family Studies, and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program at UNL. Research interests include factors influencing the delivery of mental health services in primary care. |
| Kathy Bosch |
Family Life Specialist and Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include partner abuse prevention and intervention, human sexuality education, and parenting issues. |
| Dawn Braithwaite |
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Communication Studies Department at UNL. Research focuses on communication to manage challenges in personal and family relationships. |
| Juan Casas |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research program focuses primarily on relational aggression and victimization. |
| John DeFrain |
Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Family and Community Development. Research interests focus on family strengths and challenges. |
| David DiLillo |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNL. Primary research interests lie in the areas of family violence and marital and couple relations. |
| David Hansen |
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at UNL. Research interest area is child maltreatment, including identification, reporting, assessment and intervention with victims and families. |
| Jeanette Harder |
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at UNO. Research interests include child abuse prevention, child welfare, domestic violence, support for couples dealing with infertility, and social work and spirituality. |
| Jody Koenig Kellas |
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UNL. Research focus is on narratives and storytelling in family and relational communication contexts. |
| Lisa Knoche |
Research Assistant Professor, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, and Project Director, Getting Ready Project. Research interests focus on social development in child care settings, child care characteristics, and intervention and prevention efforts for at-risk children and families. |
| Gina Kunz |
Research Assistant Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focus is on children and youth with attention deficits such as ADHD and students with learning disabilities. |
| Merilee McCurdy |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests include improving students’ writing ability and interventions to increase writing performance in the classroom. |
| Julia McQuillan |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research focus is on the social and behavioral consequences of infertility. |
| Michael Scheel |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at UNL. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
| Mark Shriver |
Staff Psychologist at the Munroe-Meyer Institute and Associate Professor in Pediatrics at UNMC. Research interests are in parent training, child compliance issues, and early childhood education. |
| Jordan Soliz |
Assistant Professor at UNL in the Department of Communication Studies. Research interests include family and interpersonal communication and intergroup prejudice. |
| Kaye Stanek-Krogstrand |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNL. Primary research focus is with the nutrition of children and youth both in community and clinical settings. |
| Elizabeth Suter |
Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies and a faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at UNL. Research focuses on communication issues of lesbian and gay persons. |
| Kimberly A. Tyler |
Associate Professor of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include high-risk adolescents and youth. |
| Gwen Weber |
Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Research areas include marriage and family therapy and parenting skills. |
| Les Whitbeck |
Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include substance abuse among Native American children and families, risk factors and mental illness in homeless youth, and resilience. |
| Brian Wilcox |
Director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research interests focus on child and adolescent development and public policy. |
| Yan Xia |
Associate professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research focus on resiliency in immigrant families, adolescent behavioral health, Asian adolescents in particular, and Chinese marriage and family. |
Health Promotion
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Psychology at Munroe-Meyer institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Research and clinical interests stress related disorders and pain management, parent training, and behavioral dentistry. |
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| Linda Boeckner |
Professor in the Panhandle Research and Extension Center. Research interest is in developing nutrition education and health programs to address Nebraska adults though the extension education system. |
| Kathy Bosch |
Family Life Specialist and Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include partner abuse prevention and intervention, human sexuality education, and parenting issues. |
| Rochelle Dalla |
Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include prostitution and Latino immigration in rural meat packing communites. |
| Georgia Jones |
Assistant Professor of Nutritional and Health Sciences at UNL. Research interests focus on areas of health and wellness (especially with minority populations) and food literacy as it relates to health and wellness. |
| Nancy Lewis |
Professor of Nutrition and Health Sciences at UNL. Research interests focus on aging and nutrition, eating behaviors to increase intake, multidisciplinary research on eating behaviors, and physical activity and schools. |
| Kathleen Lodl |
Extension Specialist in 4-H Youth Development. Research and work focuses on developing a seamless approach to youth and family programming. |
| Ian Newman |
Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest includes factors that predict and influence behaviors related to health. |
| Christina Perry |
Senior lecturer in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at UNL. Research interests include health behavior motivation theory, community-based intervention planning/evaluation and school health issues. |
| G. Bradley Schaefer |
Omaha Scottish Rite Masonic Professor of Pediatrics at UNMC, Director of the Hattie B. Munroe Center for Human Genetics and Associate Director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation. |
| Duane Shell |
Research Associate Professor at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology. Research interests include self-regulation and motivational influences on behavior and cognition as manifest in educational and public health settings. |
| Kaye Stanek-Krogstrand |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNL. Primary research focus is with the nutrition of children and youth both in community and clinical settings. |
Homeless and Runaway Youth
| Dan Hoyt |
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Bureau of Sociological Research at UNL. Main research interest is on mental health and substance use among high-risk adolescents. |
| Kimberly A. Tyler |
Associate Professor of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include high-risk adolescents and youth. |
| Les Whitbeck |
Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include substance abuse among Native American children and families, risk factors and mental illness in homeless youth, and resilience. |
Immigrant and Migrant Families
| Rochelle Dalla |
Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests include prostitution and Latino immigration in rural meat packing communities. |
| Marcela Raffaelli |
Professor in Psychology at UNL. Research focuses on risk and protective factors associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking, homeless youth, and Latino families. |
| Loukia Sarroub |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in exploring language and literacy as cultural and sociological phenomena, where issues of ethnicity, language use, social class, gender, and culture are highly politicized. |
| Michael Scheel |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at UNL. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
| Rosalie Torres Stone |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research interests are in social inequality and substance use, specifically among the Latino population. |
| Yan Xia |
Associate Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research focus on resiliency in immigrant families, adolescent behavioral health, Asian adolescents in particular, and Chinese marriage and family. |
| Oksana Yakushko |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests include immigrant's mental health, psychology's responses to globalization, women and women's movements. |
Mental Health
| Lisa Crockett |
Professor of Psychology at UNL. Research interests focus on adolescent development, psychological well-being, and risk behavior. |
| Mark DeKraai |
Director of the NEBHANDS projects, a statewide effort to develop an integrated behavioral health system of care that incorporates faith-based and community organizations. |
| David DiLillo |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNL. Primary research interests lie in the areas of family violence and marital and couple relations. |
| Joseph Evans |
Director of the Pediatric Psychology program at UNMC and the Director of the ADHD clinic for Munroe Meyer Institute and is an adolescent psychology treatment specialist for the Department. |
| Julia McQuillan |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research focus is on the social and behavioral consequences of infertility. |
| Michael Scheel |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at UNL. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
| Rosalie Torres Stone |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research interests are in social inequality and substance use, specifically among the Latino population. |
| Susan Swearer |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research includes comorbidity of psychological disorders in youth, psychopathology, and cognitive-behavioral interventions with youth and their families. |
| Kimberly A. Tyler |
Associate Professor of Sociology at UNL. Research interests include high-risk adolescents and youth. |
School Environment
| Beth Doll |
Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest is assessing and intervening to enhance the caretaking systems that support children and adolescents. |
| Malinda Eccarius |
Senior Lecturer at UNL Special Education and Communication Disorders. Research interests include instructional illustration visual literacy and cognitive emphasis instruction with students who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
| Jody Isernhagen |
Associate Professor in Educational Administration at UNL. Research interests are in school improvement and leadership. |
| Gina Kunz |
Research Assistant Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focus is on children and youth with attention deficits such as ADHD and students with learning disabilities. |
| Margaret Latta |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in technological reasoning in teacher education. |
| Reece Peterson |
Professor of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research includes identification of and interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, student discipline in school, and school violence prevention. |
| Loukia Sarroub |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in exploring language and literacy as cultural and sociological phenomena, where issues of ethnicity, language use, social class, gender, and culture are highly politicized. |
| Marilyn Scheffler |
Research Assistant Professor in Special Education and Communication Disorders an UNL. Research interests are on implementing and sustaining school-wide positive behavior and academic supports. |
| Susan Swearer |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research includes comorbidity of psychological disorders in youth, psychopathology, and cognitive-behavioral interventions with youth and their families. |
School-Family Connections
| Susan Churchill |
Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests focus on connections between home and child care. Specific interests are in the study of continuity between parents and teachers. |
| Beth Doll |
Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest is assessing and intervening to enhance the caretaking systems that support children and adolescents. |
| Marjorie Kostelnik |
Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences at UNL. Areas of teaching and scholarship include child socialization and developmentally appropriate practices with young children. |
| Chris Marvin |
Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. Research interests in contextual factors that influence children’s communication patterns at home and school. |
| Reece Peterson |
Professor of Special Education and Communiction Disorders at UNL. Research includes identification of and interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, student discipline in school, and school violence prevention. |
| Michael Scheel |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at UNL. Research interests include the study of client responses to therapy. |
| Susan Sheridan |
Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology at UNL. Director, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth and Families and Schools. Research interests are in relationships between parents and teachers, and identifying meaningful ways to establish home-school partnerships. |
Social Development in Children/Adolescents
| Brad Barker |
Assistant Professor at the Cooperative Extension Division at UNL. Areas of interest are instructional technology, non-formal science and technology, and youth development. |
| Beth Birnstihl |
Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension, University of Nebraska and 4-H Program Administrator. Areas of interest include the needs of teenagers and middle school children, and gerontology-needs of aging Nebraskans. |
| Eric Buhs |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interests in the role of peer rejection linked to social behavior in the classroom and to students’ emotional adjustment and achievement outcomes. |
| Gustavo Carlo |
Associate Professor in Psychology at UNL. Research focus is on the individual, parenting, and culture-related correlates of positive social and moral behaviors in children and adolescents. |
| Juan Casas |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research program focuses primarily on relational aggression and victimization. |
| Susan Churchill |
Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests focus on connections between home and child care. Specific interests are in the study of continuity between parents and teachers. |
| Beth Doll |
Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL. Research interest is assessing and intervening to enhance the caretaking systems that support children and adolescents. |
| Lisa Knoche | Research Assistant Professor, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, and Project Director, Getting Ready Project. Research interests focus on social development in child care settings, child care characteristics, and intervention and prevention efforts for at-risk children and families. |
| Kathleen Lodl |
Extension Specialist in 4-H Youth Development. Research and work focuses on developing a seamless approach to youth and family programming. |
| Duane Shell |
Research Associate Professor at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology. Research interests include self-regulation and motivational influences on behavior and cognition as manifest in educational and public health settings. |
| Susan Sheridan |
Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology. Director, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. Research interests are in relationships between parents and teachers, and identifying meaningful ways to establish home-school partnerships. |
| Jordan Soliz |
Assistant Professor at UNL in the Department of Communication Studies. Research interests include family and interpersonal communication and intergroup prejudice. |
| Rosalie Torres Stone |
Assistant Professor in Sociology at UNL. Research interests are in social inequality and substance use, specifically among the Latino population. |
| Lauree Tilton-Weaver |
Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNO. Research focuses broadly on psychosocial development during adolescence and early adulthood. |
| Brian Wilcox |
Director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research interests focus on child and adolescent development and public policy. |
Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
| David Brooks |
Professor at the UNL in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education. Areas of specialty are design and implementation of Web-based communications systems. |
| Ed Daly |
Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at UNL, specializing in academic performance problems. |
| Malinda Eccarius |
Senior Lecturerat UNL Special Education and Communication Disorders. Research interests include instructional illustration visual literacy and cognitive emphasis instruction with students who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
| Carolyn Pope Edwards |
Professor in Psychology and Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests are in education and studying the world-recognized, family-centered early childhood programs of North and Central Italy. |
| Joan Erickson |
Associate Professor at UNL Special Education and Communication Disorders. Research interests include literacy development and instruction and the use of technology to support literacy activities. |
| Amy Goodburn |
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UNL. Research interests are in teacher development and multicultural and critical pedagogies in English Education curriculum. |
| Ruth Heaton |
Associate Professor in the Center for Curriculum and Instruction at UNL. Major area of research is teacher learning. |
| Jody Isernhagen |
Associate Professor in Educational Administration at UNL. Research interests are in school improvement and leadership. |
| Julie Johnson |
Chair of the Child, Youth and Family Studies Department at UNL. Research interest focuses on teacher and curriculum change as it relates to changing philosophical beliefs from a technical to a critical science approach. |
| Marjorie Kostelnik |
Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences. Areas of teaching and scholarship include child socialization and developmentally appropriate practices with young children. |
| Gina Kunz |
Research Assistant Professor at UNL with the Nebraska Center for Research on CYFS. Research focus is on children and youth with attention deficits such as ADHD and students with learning disabilities. |
| Margaret Latta |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research interests are in technological reasoning in teacher education. |
| Richard Levy |
Staff Scientist for the ANDRILL Program. Research interests center on evolution of the Antarctic continent with a focus on Cenozoic climate and ice-sheet history. |
| W James Lewis |
Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics. Research interests include teacher preparation and mathematics education. |
| Tom McGowan |
Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Areas of interest are literature-based social studies instruction and the nature of school-university collaboration. |
| Michelle Rupiper |
Senior Lecturer in Child, Youth and Family Studies at UNL. Research interests are in teacher preparation and how to help pre-service teachers acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be effective and efficient teachers. |
| Susan Sheridan |
Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology. Director, Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. Research interests are in relationships between parents and teachers, and identifying meaningful ways to establish home-school partnerships. |
| Ellin Siegel |
Associate Professor in the Special Education and Communication Disorders Department at UNL. Research interests in conducting studies in school and home settings for children/youth with severe disabilities. |
| Guy Trainin |
Assistant Professor in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL, and Co-Director of the Great Plains Institute for Reading and Writing. Research interests in reading acquisition and reading disabilities. |
| Kathy Wilson |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at UNL. Research focus is on teacher beliefs and expertise in literacy instruction. |
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