Faculty & Staff Spotlights

Educational Psychology

Thomas Good

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Pygmalion in the Classroom, the controversial 1968 book by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson about the effects of teacher expectation on first- and second-grade student performance, Educational Research and Evaluation published a special issue of its journal. Professor Emeritus Thomas Good, doctoral student Natasha Sterzinger, and two-time educational psychology grad Alyson Lavigne '07 '10, now a Utah State assistant professor, were invited to write Expectation Effects: Pygmalion and the Initial 20 Years of Research. Read the full article here.

Ron Marx

Former Dean and Professor Ron Marx was asked to be part of a planning meeting for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine’s next decade. Marx provided advice to founder Andrew Weil and Executive Director Victoria Maizes on strategic priorities that could guide the work for the center as it strives to provide a more integrated and holistic approach to health care. The planning meeting included participants from medicine, nursing, and insurance.