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Lorie L. Tuma
Administrative Assistant in Psychology and Cognitive Science
Office: Olin Hall 115
Phone: x4380

Concordia University, B.A. (cum laude), Organizational Management and Communications.

Lorie brings a wealth of experience to her job from her years at Carleton both through Student Life and Dean of the College Division. Her knowledge in student development, training, and job placement, along with her work from the start of the Writing Portfolio requirement, has been quickly utilized in the Psychology department. She works closely with the faculty, Fifth Year Intern, Student Department Advisors, and majors, as well as serving as the first contact with the Psychology Department. Lorie has Human Resource Management training, as well as 10 years in the legal profession. She has served on numerous committees both on and off campus.

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Amy Csizmar Dalal
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: Center for Math & Computing 322
Phone: x5632

Amy's research interests include computer networks and measurement. Specifically, she is interested in how computer applications and computer networks influence and interact with each other, and how user perception of computer application peformance is affected by underlying conditions on the computer network. She teaches courses in introductory computer science, computer networks, peer-to-peer and multimedia computing, and computer architecture.

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Jason A. Decker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: Leighton Hall 307
Phone: x4221

Grove City College, B.A.; Arizona State University, M.A.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Metaethics, and any other philosophical issue that wanders by.

Kathleen M. Galotti
Professor of Cognitive Science
Director of Cognitive Science
Office: Olin Hall 108
Phone: x4376

Kathie teaches courses in introductory psychology, statistics, and her specialties are developmental and cognitive psychology. She helped establish the Cognitive Studies concentration at Carleton. She is the author of Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory, a textbook, Making Decisions in Everyday Life, a trade book, and over two dozen journal articles. Her research, focusing on reasoning and decision making and the development of these skills, has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.

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Seth N. Greenberg
Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology
Chair of Psychology
Office: Olin Hall 119
Phone: x5603

Professor Seth Greenberg received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Ohio State University in 1972. He joined the Carleton Psychology Department as Chair in 2005, and is a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor. Professor Greenberg has published chapters in several books and about 30 articles in major research journals, and has received grants from NIH, NSF, Ford Foundation, the Bi National Science Foundation, and Spencer Foundation. His teaching interests focus on cognition and statistics, and seminars in such areas as reading processes, eyewitness testimony and attention. Finally, his research has focused on word recognition in reading, attention, sensory memory, bilingualism, and face processing.

Fernan Jaramillo
Professor of Biology
Director of Carleton's Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative
Off Campus: Fall 2009
Office: Hulings Hall 321
Phone: x4392

I am interested in how the nervous system acquires, processes, and relays information. This subject can be successfully approached by studying the cellular mechanisms underlying sensory transduction and synaptic transmission in the various sensory systems.

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Jay Levi
Professor of Anthropology
Chair of Sociology and Anthropology
Off Campus: Winter 2010
Office: Leighton Hall 227
Phone: x4110

Jay is interested in the ethnography of the Greater Southwest and Mesoamerica. In Mexico, he has conducted research among the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) of Chihuahua, and the Tzotzil of Chiapas. In the U.S., he has worked with indigenous peoples of southern California and on the Hopi-Navaho land dispute. His current research focuses on the politics of identity, symbolism, and interethnic relations in the Sierra Tarahumara of northwest Mexico. Jay teaches courses on the comparative history of native peoples and the state in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.; ethnicity, gender, and exchange in Latin America; and anthropological approaches to the study of religion, economics, and indigenous rights.

David Liben-Nowell
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: Center for Math & Computing 320
Phone: x4679

I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Carleton College. My interests are focused on applications of theoretical computer science to problems in a variety of other areas, within and beyond computer science. Currently my research emphasis is on social networks; in the past, I've worked on problems in computational biology, complexity of games, and peer-to-peer systems.

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David R. Musicant
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Chair of Computer Science
Office: Center for Math & Computing 326
Phone: x4369

Dave specializes in data mining and machine learning. His current work is on the EDAM project (Exploratory Data Analysis and Monitoring), which is an interdisciplinary project involving computer scientists, chemists, and atmospheric scientists. A fundamental part of his published research has been based on Support Vector Machines, which are used in solving a variety of data mining and machine learning problems. Dave teaches artificial intelligence, data mining, programming languages, database systems, data structures, and introductory computer science.

Jeffrey R. Ondich
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Office: Center for Math & Computing 324
Phone: x4364

Jeff's interests include natural language processing, software development, and computer networks. He is one of the co-authors of Ultralingua, a collection of multi-lingual dictionary products for Windows, Macintosh, and Palm OS

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Matthew S. Rand
Associate Professor of Biology
Chair of Biology
Office: Hulings Hall 325
Phone: x4394

Matt, a vertebrate reproductive biologist, studies the hormonal control and function of sexually dimorphic traits. Currently he uses lizards as a model system to understand neural differences that mediate male and female reproductive behavior. He teaches Animal Physiology, Animal Behavior and part of Introductory Biology.

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Susan R. Singer
Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences
Office: Hulings Hall 308
Phone: x4391

Susan, a plant developmental biologist, is taking a developmental genetics approach to the study of flowering in pea. Floral mutants are being characterized and genetic interactions between mutants are under investigation to elucidate the roles of different genes in the regulation of floral development. She teaches Plant Biology, Plant Development, Developmental Genetics, and part of Introductory Biology.

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Mija M. Van Der Wege
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Off Campus: Fall 2009
Office: Olin Hall 135
Phone: x4375

Mija Van Der Wege (B.A., Cognitive Science, Wellesley College; M.S., Statistics, Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University). Mija's research interests focus around how people use language in day to day life. Her primary area of research looks at how people make use of information about their conversational partners when they are having a conversation. One line of research investigates how conversational partners frequently and spontaneously create agreements on what words mean. Another area is how the use of new media, like email and instant messaging, is changing the way that we use language and how we communicate both online and offline. She teaches courses on introductory psychology, measurement and data analysis, psychology of language, and a seminar on language and deception.

Lawrence Wichlinski
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Olin Hall 123
Phone: x4377

Larry Wichlinski (Ph.D, Southern Illinois University) teaches courses in behavioral neuroscience, psychopharmacology and sleep and dreaming. His research interests include the pharmacology of memory and anxiety, the behavioral and neurochemical effects of drug abuse, and sleep and dreaming.

Jennifer M. Wolff
Assistant Professor of Biology
Office: Hulings Hall 204
Phone: x4324

Dr. Wolff is a developmental biologist interested in the embryonic development of the nervous system. She is currently using genetic and molecular approaches to investigate how male-specific neurons that control mating arise during development in the model organism C. elegans. She teaches Animal Developmental Biology, Developmental Neurobiology, part of Introductory Biology, and Biotechnology, Health, and Society.