David M. Fresco, Ph.D.
June 2020
Important News!
Effective, June 1, Dr. Fresco has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and the Institute for Social Research. He will no longer accept or mentor students at Kent State.
June 2018
Recent Publications from PERL Labbies:
March 2017
Recent Publications from PERL Labbies:
2. Renna, M. E., Quintero, J. M., Fresco, D.M., & Mennin, D. S. (2017) Emotion Regulation Therapy: A mechanism-targeted treatment for disorders of distress. Frontiers of Psychology (Research Topic: Emotion Science, Advances in Emotion Regulation: From neuroscience to psychotherapy). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00098
December 2016
Recent Publications from PERL Labbies:
1. Stange, J. P., Hamilton, J. L., Olino, T. M., Fresco, D. M., Alloy, L. B. (in press). Autonomic Reactivity and Vulnerability to Depression: A Multi-Wave Study, Emotion. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000254
2. *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., *Schumm, J. A., & Dobson, K. S. (2017). Change in explanatory flexibility and explanatory style in cognitive therapy and its components, Cognitive Therapy and Research, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9825-6
September 2016
Drs. Gunstad and Fresco were recently honored to present their respective brain health programs of research to Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13)
August 2016
Your brain on Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT)!
August 2016
Recent Publications from PERL Labbies:
1. *Lackner, R. J., *Moore, M. T., *Minerovic, J., & Fresco, D. M. (2015). Explanatory flexibility and explanatory style in treatment-seeking clients with Axis I psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 736-743. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684804/
2. Moore, M. T., Dawkins, M. R., Jr, Fisher, J. W., & Fresco, D. M. (2016). Depressive realism and attributional style: Replication and extension. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 9, 1-12.
3. Seeley, S. H., Mennin, D.S., Aldao, A., McLaughlin, K. A., Rottenberg, J., & Fresco, D. M. (2016). Impact of comorbid depressive disorders on subjective and physiological responses to emotion in generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40 290-303.
4. *Shepherd, K. A., Coifman, K. G., *Matt, L. M., Fresco, D. M. (2016). Development of a self-distancing task and initial validation of responses. Psychological Assessment, 28, 841-855. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000297. PMCID: PMC4929024
5. *Matt, L, Fresco, D. M., & Coifman, K. G. (2016). Trait Anxiety and Attenuated Negative Affect Differentiation: A vulnerability factor to consider?, Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 29, 685-698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2016.1163544
6. Jensen, D., Cohen, J.N., Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2016). Clarifying the Unique Associations among Intolerance of Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Depression. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45, 431-444, DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2016.1197308
7. *Lackner, R. J., & Fresco, D. M. (2016). Interaction Effect of Brooding Rumination and Interoceptive Awareness on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 85, 43-52. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2016.08.007
December 2015
Drs. Fresco and Pollock of PERL/KENL at the Sera Jey Monastery, in Bylakuppe, India conducting dyadic EEG research with our dream team of Tibetan monastics
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October 2015
With Jon Kabat Zinn, Zindel Segal,Amishi Jha, Jud Brewer, and the rest of the Mindfulness Research Working Group, Coconut Grove, FLA, USA
August 2015
Recent Publications from PERL Labbies:
Loucks, E. B., Schuman-Olivier, Z., Britton, W. B., Fresco, D. M., Desbordes, G., Brewer, J. A., Fulwiler, C. (2015). Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: State of the Evidence, Plausible Mechanisms, and Theoretical Framework. Current Cardiology Reports, 17, 112, DOI 10.1007/s11886-015-0668-7ports.
June 2015
With Richie Davidson and Lama Willa Miller at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY, USA
No shoes, no problem. PERL labbies, Dr. Fresco and Ryan Lackner presenting at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY, USA
Recent publications from PERL Labbies:
Hoge, E.A., Bui, E., Goetter, E., Robinaugh, D.J., Ojserkis, R.A., Fresco, D.M., Simon, N. (2015). Change in Decentering Mediates Improvement in Anxiety in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Cognitive Therapy and Research,39, 228-235. NIHMSID # 635177
Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (2015). Advancing Emotion Regulation Perspectives on Psychopathology: The Challenge of Distress Disorders, Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory, 26, 80-92, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.969624
Bernstein, A., Hadash, Y., Lichtash, Y., Tanay, G., *Shepherd, K., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Decentering and Related Constructs: A Critical Review and Meta-Cognitive Processes Model. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Ritter, M., & Heimberg, R. G., (in press). An Open Trial of Emotion Regulation Therapy For Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Co-Occurring depression. Depression and Anxiety.
*Lackner, R. J., *Moore, M. T., *Minerovic, J., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Explanatory flexibility and explanatory style in treatment-seeking clients with Axis I psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
February 2015
Serenity Study team at the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine 7-Day Professional Training Retreat, San Jose, CA, USA
December 2014
ERT Workshop in Hong Kong. Thanks to UCEP and University of Hong Kong for such enthusiasm and hospitality.
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November 2014
PERL Labbies, Dr. Fresco and Kathrine Shepherd in Dharamsala, India for the Cosmology and Consciousness Conference III (3-5 November 2014)
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October 2014
An outlier during our reaction time experiment in India?
PERL Labbies, Dr. Fresco and Kathrine Shepherd arrive in Dharamsala, India to begin teaching In the Sager Science Leadership Workshop (28-30 October 2014) and the Cosmology and Consciousness Conference III (3-5 November 2014)
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Serenity Study website coming soon!
September 2014
Dr. Fresco (Co-I) joins Dr. Shirley Moore (PI) in being awarded a 5-year, NIH-NINR, $2.35M center grant (1P30NR015326) to conduct a project entitled, "SMART Center II: Brain-Behavior Connections in Self-Management Science"
Thanks, Congressman Tim Ryan, for your support and interest in our NIH funded project!
August 2014
Drs. Fresco and Hughes (KSU) along with Dr. Jeffrey Greeson (UPENN) have been a awarded a 5-year, $3.6M NIH-NHLBI grant (1R01HL119977-01A1) to conduct a project entitled, "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for High Blood Pressure: A Two-Site RCT"
July 2014
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Dr. Fresco and PERL labbie, Kathrine Shepherd will be traveling to Dharamsala, India in October to serve as faculty in the Science for Monks program, which has been established to introduce Western science to Tibetan Buddhist monastics and meld Tibetan Buddhism with science. |
June 2014
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The KENL and PERL labs welcome Dr. Joshua Pollock as our postdoctoral associate. Josh will assist KENL and PERL faculty in conducting EEG and fMRI projects as well as participate in the development of extramural grant applications. |
February 2014
Recent publications from PERL Labbies:
*Moore, M. T., *Anderson, N. L., *Barnes, J. M., *Haigh, E. A. P., & Fresco, D. M. (2014).Using the GAD-Q-IV to identify generalized anxiety disorder in psychiatric treatment seeking and primary care medical samples. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 28(1):25-30. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.10.009
Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., *Moore, M. T., Heimberg, R. G., & Hambrick, J. (2014).Changes in explanatory flexibility among individuals with generalized anxiety disorder in an emotion evocation challenge. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38, 416-427. doi:10.1007/s10608-014-9601-4h.
*Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Segal, Z. V., & Brown, T. in. (2014).Factor analysis of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) in a treatment-seeking sample. Assessment, 21, 570 - 579 doi: 10.1177/1073191114524272.
January 2014
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Congratulations to PERL Labbie alumnus, Mike Moore, on accepting a tenure track position in the Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY! |
December 2013
Congratulations to PERL Labbie, Kathrine Shepherd for receiving a Francisco J. Varela Award from the Mind & Life Institute to help conduct a project entitled,“Examining the relationship of meditation experience to the neural correlates of spontaneous emotion regulation.“
Dr. Fresco, and his colleagues Dr. William Kalkhoff (Sociology) and Dr. Robert Clements (Biology) received a grant award to fund a postdoctoral fellow for two years for a project entitled, "Basic, translational and clinical aspects of normative and disordered biobehavioral functioning: An interdisciplinary consortium in the new Kent State Neuroimaging Laboratory."
October 2013
Kent State Research Finds Meditation Effective in Reducing Blood Pressure
Dr. Fresco becomes an Associate Editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research.
August 2013
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Congratulations and best wishes to Emily Haigh on her first semester as an Assistant Professor! |
Recent publications from PERL Labbies:
Hughes, J. W., Fresco, D. M., Myerscough, R., van Dulmen, M., Carlson, L. E., Josephson, R. (2013). Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Prehypertension. Psychosomatic Medicine, 75(8), 721–728. doi:10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182a3e4e5
Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). What, Me Worry and Ruminate About DSM-5 and RDoC? The Importance of Targeting Negative Self-Referential Processing. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, 20(3), 258–267.
July 2013
Congrats to Shauna Clen for successfully defending her dissertation, entitled "Association of meta-cognitive reactions to negative emotions to anxiety and depressive pathology."
Dr. Fresco was appointed to a second term as Associate Editor the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
June 2013
PERL Lab attends the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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Ceiling of the Meditation Hall at the Garrison Institute |
Shamatha Practice |
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Pontificating along the banks of the Hudson River |
Tsoknyi Rinpoche & Roshi Joan Halifax Photo courtesy of Dave Vago |
Rock Cairn |
April 2013
Dr. Fresco was interviewed for a story on healthy ways to respond to stress at Prevention.com
February 2013
The PERL Lab is proud of Shauna Clen, who will start a post doctoral fellowship at the Maine VAMC, helping to reduce the suffering of veterans with PTSD.
Emotion Regulation Therapy progression of emotion regulation strategies with increasing elaboration
Recent publications from PERL Labbies:
*Moore, M. T. & Fresco, D. M. (2012). Depressive Realism: A Meta-Analytic Review. Clinical Psychology Review. 32(6), 1–14. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2012.05.004
Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Ritter, M. R. (2013). Emotion Regulation Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20, 282-300.
Fresco, D. M. (2013). Tending the garden and harvesting the fruits of behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 44, 177-179
Mennin, D. S., Ellard, K. K., Fresco, D. M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). United We Stand: Emphasizing commonalities of cognitive-behavioral therapies within a broadening field of intervention science. Behavior Therapy, 44, 234-248.
Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Emotion Regulation Therapy. In J. J. Gross (Ed.) Handbook of Emotion Regulation, 2nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press.
Michl, L., McLaughlin, K., *Shepherd, K., Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (in press). Rumination as a Mechanism linking Stressful Life Events to Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety: Longitudinal Evidence in Early Adolescents and Adults. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
January 2013
An Emotion Regulation-Based Approach for Treating General Anxiety and Co-Occuring Major Depressive Disorder from CWRU Psychiatry on Vimeo.
October 2012
PERL Lab attends the Mind and Life XXV at Rockefeller University, New York,NY, USA
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HHDL wit Thupten Jinpha |
Septmember 2012
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Congratulations and best wishes to Mike Moore on his first semester as an Assistant Professor! |
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We are proud of former KSU student and PERL labbie, Michael Armey who has received R01 funding from NIMH to study the relationship of emotional reactivity to suicide. |
June 2012
PERL Lab attends the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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Teaching from Matthieu Ricard. |
An invitation to walk with "quiet eyes" from our teacher and collaborator, Sharon Salzberg. |
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Hike in search of yeti? Photo courtesy of Dev Hashish. |
PERL Labbie, Kathrine Shepherd presenting her research. Photo courtesy of Dev Hashish. |
PERL labbies and alumni at the Garrison Institute Photo courtesy of Dev Hashish. |
May 2012
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received a College of Arts and Science Research Incentive Award to conduct a neuroimaging project entitled "Dissociative neural markers of anxious depression." This project is collaboration with Anthony Jack, Joseph Calabrese, and the Case Center for Imaging Research.
April 2012
Dr. Fresco and his fellow panelists following their presentation at the International Symposia Contemplative Studies, Denver, CO. Pictured are DMF, Elizabeth Hoge, Sharon Salzberg, and MacAndrew Jack (missing: David Vago). Also, got in a day of skiing at Arapahoe Basin.
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March 2012
Apparently, President Obama stopped by the PERL website.Thought he used Macs and iPads.
Dr. Fresco meets with Donna Karan and the Urban Zen team in Kent, OH.
February 2012
PERL Lab takes a "field trip" to University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center for training on their Philips 3.0T fMRI scanner as we prepare for an upcoming neuroimaging study.
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January 2012
The PERL Lab is proud of Michael Moore, who will begin as a tenure track, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Psychology, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.
December 2011
Dr. Fresco becomes an Associate Editor the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Congrats to Shauna Clen, the latest doctoral candidate in the PERL Lab, who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus entitled, "Association of Meta-Cognitive Reactions to Negative Emotions to Anxiety and Depressive Pathology."
November 2011
Dr. Fresco and his colleage Dr. Douglas Mennin, were honored to deliver one of the inaugural spotlight presentations at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Toronto. Here is a video recording of the talk. Slides available to download at the ERT site.
Congrats to Effie Linardatos, the latest minted PhD from the PERL Lab, who successfully defended the final oral examination for her dissertation entitled, "Facial Emotion Recognition in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression: Assessing for Unique and Common Responses to Emotions and Neutrality."
October 2011
EmotionRegulationTherapy .com goes live!
June 2011
PERL Lab attends the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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With Matthieu Ricard |
The view from the Garrison Institute |
Jessica Flynn and I with our teacher and collaborator, Sharon Salzberg. |
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Day of Noble Silence. Can you spot the PERL Labbies? Photo courtesy of Dave Vago. |
Too Many Dave's? With friend and colleague, Dave Vago. |
Spot the labbies? Photo courtesy of Dave Vago. |
More photos from the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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With Jessica Flynn on the banks of the Hudson River. Photo courtesy of Dev Ashish. |
June 2011
Dr. Fresco was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor In the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
March 2011
This Fall, Effie Linardatos will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA.
This Fall, Britt Lamoureux will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, Cleveland, OH, USA.
January 2011
Dr. Fresco was interviewed for a story that appeared in the LA Times on the benefits of mindfulness meditation.
December 2010
Congrats to Jessica Flynn, who was selected for a Francisco J. Varela Research Award from the Mind and Life Institute, which provides funding to help her conduct a project entitled "Effects of Training in Loving‐Kindness Meditation on Underlying Approach and Avoidance Motivations." This project is being conducted in collaboration with Wil Cunningham and Sharon Salzberg.
November 2010
Congrats to Britt Lamoureux for successfully defending her dissertation, entitled "Predictors of Psychological Well-Being in Inner-City Women: Examining Trajectories of Resistance, Resilience, and Distress."
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received pilot funding from the Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) entitled "Neural correlates of approach and avoidance motivations in generalized anxiety disorder." This project is being conducted in collaboration with Wil Cunningham and Doug Mennin.
October 2010
At the Mindfulness Research Working Group Meeting, at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, Madison, WI, USA
September 2010
Newest publication from PERL labbies, alumni, and extended family.
*Haigh, E.A.P, *Moore, M. T., Kashdan, T. B., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Examination of the Factor Structure and Concurrent Validity of the Langer Mindfulness/Mindlessness Scale, Assessment.
May 2010
Dr. Fresco was selected to join the Mind and Life Fellows Program as a scientific advisor to the Mind and Life Institute.
Congrats to Jessica Flynn, who received a prestigious merit-based dissertation fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
April 2010
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received a research incentive grant from the Ohio Board of Regents entitled "Biological correlates of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder."
This Fall, Nina Rytwinski will start a post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (with Norah C. Feeny, Ph.D.)
February 2010
This summer, Effie Linardatos will begin her clinical internship at the Minneapolis VAMC, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
This summer, Britt Lamoureux will begin her clinical internship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, Cleveland, OH, USA.
December 2009
Recent publications from PERL labbies, alumni, and extended family.
*Armey, M.F., *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., Spasojevic, J, & Alloy, L. B. (2009). Brooding and Pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with confirmatory factor analysis. Assessment, 16, 315-327.
Aldao, A., Mennin, D. S., *Linardatos, E., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Differential patterns of physical symptoms and subjective processes in generalized anxiety disorder and unipolar depression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
*Clen, S.L., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Emotional Distress Tolerance and Major Depressive Disorder. In M. J. Zvolensky, A. Bernstein, & A.A. Vujanovic (Eds.), Distress tolerance: Theory, research and clinical applications.
*Lamoureux, B. E.,* Linardatos, E., Fresco, D. M., Bartko, D., Logue, E., & Milo, L. (in press). Using the QIDS-SR16 to identify Major Depressive Disorder in primary care medical patients. Behavior Therapy.Fresco, D. M., *Flynn, J. J., Mennin, D. S., & *Haigh, E. A. P. (in press). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. In J. D. Herbert & E. Forman. Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. New York: Wiley.
November 2009
Dr. Fresco will join the editorial boards of Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology beginning in January 2010.
May 2009
Effie Linardatos has been chosen to receive the Judith Lasser Research Award to help support her dissertation research. Congrats, Effie!
March 2009
This Fall, Michael Moore will start a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA (with Tim Brown and Michael Otto).
This Fall, Emily Haigh will start a postdoctoral fellowship at the Psychopathology Research Unit and the Center for the Prevention of Suicide , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (with Aaron T. Beck).
February 2009
This Summer, Nina Rytwinski will begin her clinical internship at Eastern Virgina Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
January 2009
Dr. Fresco participated in a panel discussion entitled, “Happiness and the Brain” on the Toronto-based television program, “The Agenda with Steve Paikin.” The discussion included coverage of affective neuroscience, the neural correlates of happiness and the benefits of Buddhist mental training exercises such as mindfulness meditation.
A paper, first authored by Nina Rytwinski, enititled, "Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale," was just published in the journal, Depression and Anxiety. A pdf the paper can be downloaded from the lab link of this website. The citation for this paper is:
Rytwinski, N.K., Fresco, D.M., Heimberg, R.G., Coles, M.E., Liebowitz, M.R., Cissell, S., Stein, M.B., & Hofmann, S.G. (2009). Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale. Depression and Anxiety, 26, 34-38.
Dr. Fresco becomes an Associate Editor for the journal, Behavior Therapy, which is the flagship journal of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. His term will continue for four years.
January 2008
Congratulations Effie! An article, entitled, "Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy," was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It's a study to which Effie contributed during her time at the Portland VAMC prior to starting graduate school at Kent State and joining the PERL lab.
November 2007
My Website has undergone a total facelift! Most of it is in good working order.
There will soon be some new pages that better reflect the research we are undertaking. For now, those pages have place holders, but will soon have new content.
All the old content is still here too! It can be found in the drop-down menus at the top of the page
Many thanks to Liz Wyglendowski for developing the website design and providing my site some curb appeal.
Please let me know what you think and how it works on your computer. Thanks.