LRDC Board of Visitors Member Bios

* indicates new member in 2022

Hilda Borko
Hilda Borko
Professor, Education
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Stanford University
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3096
650-723-7640
hildab@stanford.edu

Research Interests: The process of learning to teach, the impact of teacher professional development programs on teachers and students, and education research-practice partnerships. Current program of research includes a field test of the Problem-Solving Cycle professional development program for mathematics teachers, a study of the effectiveness of a professional development program to improve discourse and inquiry in science classrooms, and a project to build a framework of the learnings necessary for engaging in collaborative education research.

Suzanne Donovan
Suzanne Donovan
Executive Director
SERP Institute
1100 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1310
Washington, DC 20036
202-224-8555
sdonovan@serpinstitute.org
http://serpinstitute.org/team.html

Research Interests: Building a program of work in partnership with school districts. Anchored in classroom and school practice. Primary author and co-editor of two SERP reports: Strategic Education Research Partnership and Learning and Instruction: A SERP Research. Directed the "How People Learn" Project at the National Academies since 1999. Previously on the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Barry Fishman
Barry Fishman
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Professor of Information & Education
The University of Michigan
105 S. State Street, Room 4435
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
734-647-8027
http://www.umich.edu/~fishman/

Research Interests: Video games as models for learning environments, teacher learning and the role of technology in supporting teacher learning, and the development of usable, scalable, and sustainable learning innovations through design-based implementation research (DBIR), which he helped establish. Co-author of the Obama Administration’s 2010 U.S. National Educational Technology Plan. Associate Editor of The Journal of the Learning Sciences 2005-2012.

Susan M. Fitzpatrick
Susan M. Fitzpatrick*
President
The James S. McDonnell Foundation
1034 S. Brentwood Boulevard, Suite 1850
St. Louis, MO 63117
susan@lsrtassociates.com

Research Interests: Received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neurology from Cornell University Medical College (1984) and pursued post-doctoral training with in vivo NMR spectroscopic studies of brain metabolism/function in the Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics at Yale University. Dr. Fitzpatrick lectures and writes on issues concerning applications of neuroscience to clinical problems, the translation of cognitive science to educational settings, the role of private philanthropy in the support of scientific research, and on issues related to the public dissemination of and understanding of science.

Arthur Graesser
Arthur Graesser (Chair)
Professor, Experimental (Cognitive)
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152-0001
901- 678-2742
art.graesser@gmail.com

Research Interests: Cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, education, memory, emotions, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and learning technologies with animated conversational agents.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek*
Professor, Department of Psychology
Temple University
13th and Cecil B. Moore S.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
khirshpa@temple.edu

Research Interests: Research examines the development of early language and literacy, the role of play in learning, and the impact of screen time on children. Dr. Hirsh-Pasek received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is a frequent spokesperson for her field appearing in the New York Times, NPR and in international television outlets. Her research examines the development of early language and literacy, the role of play in learning, and the impact of screen time on children.

Ping Li
Ping Li
Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR
(852) 3400 8210
pi2li@polyu.edu.hk
http://blclab.org/

Research Interests: Understanding the relationships among language, brain, and culture. Investigates the computational and neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition and representation in native and non-native speakers of Western languages (e.g., English) and Asian languages (e.g., Chinese). Research identifies common and distinct cognitive and neural processes in language acquisition and representation.

Danielle McNamara
Danielle McNamara
Executive Director, Learning Engineering Institute
Arizona State University
950 S. McAllister
AZ 85287-1104
480-727-5690
dsmcnama@asu.edu

Research Interests: Cognitive processes involved in comprehension, writing, and learning, and to apply that understanding to educational practice by developing and testing educational technologies (e.g., iSTART, Writing Pal) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools (e.g., Coh-Metrix). NICHD. Previously served on the Governing Board for the Cognitive Science Society. Current President of the Society for Text and Discourse.

Nicole Patton-Terry
Nicole Patton-Terry*
Professor, College of Education
Florida State Universiy
2208E Stone Building, 1114 W. Call Street
Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4450
npattonterry@fsu.edu

Research Interests: Research, innovation, and engagement activities concern young learners who are vulnerable to experiencing poor language and literacy achievement in school, in particular, African American children, children growing up in poverty, and children with disabilities. Dr. Terry earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern University's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, with a specialization in learning disabilities, in 2004. She was as a special education teacher in Evanston Public Schools in Evanston, IL.

Kenneth Pugh
Kenneth Pugh
President, Director of Research, and Senior Scientist
Haskins Laboratories, Yale University and the University of Connecticut
Director, Yale Reading Center
300 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203-865-6163
pugh@haskins.yale.edu

Research Interests: Neurobiology of typical and atypical language and reading development in children. Also interested in genetics of neurolinguistics, and in the specific learning content area of literacy. He has applied neuroimaging techniques and behavioral measures to provide a foundation for better understanding the specific deficits evident in reading disabled children.

Colleen Seifert
Colleen Seifert*
University of Michigan
Department of Psychology
104 East Hall, 530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
seifert@umich.edu

Research Interests: Complex human cognition, including memory, learning, problem solving, and creativity. With collaborators, she is currently investigating cognitive accounts of creative thinking, and ways to improve the creative process. She is invested in improving learning and pedagogy in design, higher education, and applications in the public interest.