Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
Developmental Psychologist
IU South Bend faculty member since 1997
Research interests include cognitive development of preschoolers; scholarship of teaching and learning; college students’ transition to college and academic self-efficacy
Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) member (inducted 2004); IU South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award (2018); IU Distinguished Teaching Award (2020) Former Department Chair