Cristin M. Hall, PhD – Assistant Professor of School Psychology, cmh187@psu.edu
Dr. Hall is an assistant professor in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department (School Psychology Graduate Program). She received her M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2003 and her Ph.D. in school psychology from Penn State University in 2011. She has worked as a research scientist for the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness and Child Study Center at Penn State and became interested in how remote and underserved populations may gain access to information, coaching, and support for the implementation of evidence-based practices utilizing online and other technology-delivered platforms for support. Her current program of research includes the examination of the use of social media applications for creating communities of practice and disseminating evidence-based practice, using e-Health (or telehealth) applications for providing consultation and professional development for parents and professionals, and how technology delivery of content may assist with early learning and school readiness in young children.
Erica D. Culler, PhD – Research and Evaluation Scientist, edc136@psu.edu
Dr. Culler is a research and evaluation scientist at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness and the Assistant Director of the TIES Fellowship Program. She received her Ph.D. in school psychology from Penn State University in 2010. She is a certified school psychologist and a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania. She worked as a school psychologist in a rural school district prior to her position at Penn State and gained an interest in how educators and educational systems develop or choose programs as well as their ability to implement programs with fidelity. Her current program of research includes the dissemination of evidence-based programs in underserved educational systems as well as direct and indirect remote service delivery for parents and professionals who work with underserved populations and students with special needs.
Megan C. Runion, BA – Student Investigator, Project Coordinator, mcr19@psu.edu
Ms. Runion is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department at Penn State University (School Psychology Graduate Program). She received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2012. Her work experience has primarily involved program evaluation and technical assistance around issues of implementation, assessment, and sustainability at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness. Research interests include prevention and early intervention programming, school-family partnerships, social and emotional development, and resiliency. Megan is currently serving as the Lead Consultant and project coordinator for the TeleConsult Project and conducting her pre-dissertation research on eLearning for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Leah J. Hunter, BA – TIES Fellow, Student Investigator, ljh222@psu.edu
Ms. Hunter is a doctoral candidate in the School Psychology program in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department. She graduated in 2013 from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Writing. Before attending graduate school, she developed an interest in implementation science and clinical research broadly while working as a research associate on a randomized controlled trial studying large-scale implementation of an evidence-based practice, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), through Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. In her graduate school career, she has served as the project coordinator on the School 2.0 National Survey, through which she completed her Master’s thesis work in May of 2015, and a student investigator on the TeleConsult project. Her research interests have expanded to include the use of technology resources to support the implementation of evidence-based practices as well as parent and teacher training and advocacy, especially for children with disruptive behavior challenges. She plans to receive her Master’s degree in Education in December of 2015.
Nicole Breeden, MEd – Student Investigator, ncb142@psu.edu
Ms. Breeden is a doctoral candidate in the School Psychology program in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department. She has received her B.S. in Psychology from Penn State. She currently serves as a graduate assistant at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness and specifically creates online learning content for professional development for mental health service providers in the United States Air Force. She has also participated in data collection, entry, cleaning, and management on clinical impact studies for the USAF. Ms. Breeden is interested in how social media activity can be used by practicing clinicians in school psychology to share, acquire, and implement evidence-based strategies.
Robert Urbassik, MEd – Student Investigator, urbassikrf@gmail.com
Mr. Urbassik is a doctoral candidate in the School Psychology program in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department. He received his B.A. is Psychology from Washington and Jefferson College in 2011 and his M.Ed. in School Psychology at Penn State in 2015. He has worked as a teaching assistant for the College of Information Sciences and Technology for the past three years assisting students throughout completion of their capstone projects. His past research experience includes parental divorce and the mediating relationships involved for the children. His current program of research includes how technology may provide acceptable learning and school readiness experiences for young children.
Anne Frank-Webb, MEd – Student Investigator, auf153@psu.edu
Ms. Frank-Webb is a doctoral candidate in the School Psychology program in the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department. She received her M.A. in Applied Psychology from Fairfield University in 2009 and her M.Ed. in School Psychology from Penn State in 2013. Prior to attending Penn State, she worked as a clinical research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurology at the Rhode Island Hospital for several years. She has been involved in e-Health research with Drs. Hall and Culler since the summer of 2014. Specifically, she has been involved in the summation of evidence-based information related to the access to and the use of the internet and technology for families with children with neurodevelopmental disorders. More recently, she has been involved in creating brief interactive resources of various topics for families of children with Autism. In addition to e-Health, she has developed an interest in the emotional and social development in youth. In particular, she is interested in the intervention and prevention of social anxiety and subclinical social anxiety in children and adolescents within the school environment, and the disorder’s impact on the academic development of students.
Dr. Nicklaus Giacobe – Interdisciplinary Affiliate, nxg13@psu.edu
Dr. Nicklaus A. Giacobe is a Research Associate and Lecturer in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a member of the Network Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF) research center. He has earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University. He conducts research related to situation awareness in the cyber-security domain, and focuses on measuring human cognition of cyber-security analysts. He develops frameworks for the fusion of cyber-security raw data using advanced multi-sensor data fusion techniques. He has developed visualization techniques for representing cyber-security data to analysts with the goal of improving analyst situation awareness. During his work, he has identified a need for methods to measure situation awareness in this domain and has transitioned some general-purpose situation awareness measurement techniques from the cognitive science field and applied them in the cyber domain. He will be collaborating with Dr. Hall and Ms. Breeden on work related to pulling, reducing, and analyzing data from social media as it relates to dissemination of evidence-based practice.