Bob Hansman
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Treiman named to Baker chair
Rebecca Treiman, Ph.D., a leading scholar of cognitive and linguistic processes influencing how children learn to read, write and spell, has been named as the inaugural holder of the Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor-ship in Child Developmental Psychology in Arts & Sciences, announced Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences. Treiman will be formally installed in an Oct. 14 ceremony.
She and her husband, Burke Baker Jr., who is now deceased, shared a lifelong interest in making children's lives better. She established the professorship in order to perpetuate that interest. "The Bakers' desire to improve children's lives is a noble one, and is well-served by the work being done here at Washington University," Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said. "We are enormously grateful to Mrs. Baker for helping us work toward this important goal and cannot thank her enough for her trust in and support of Washington University." Treiman's research deals with the basic cognitive and linguistic processes that are involved in learning to read and write. She has examined such topics as the linguistic bases of spelling errors in normal and dyslexic children, and the development of phonological skills. She is particularly interested in how children learn to connect print and speech and the problems that they sometimes encounter in doing so. She joined the Arts & Sciences faculty this year having previously held faculty positions at Indiana University and at Wayne State University, as well as visiting positions at the Medical Research Applied Psychology Unit in England and at the University of Queensland in Australia. "I am delighted that Rebecca Treiman has joined the faculty of Arts & Sciences," Macias said. "She is an internationally known scholar in the field of child developmental psychology, and she will add considerable strength to our department. "Mrs. Baker's generosity has made it possible for us to attract Professor Treiman to this important position in our Department of Psychology." Treiman earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Yale University in 1976 and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. Active on the editorial boards of several research journals, she served as editor of The Journal of Memory and Language from 1997-2001. She also served a term as member and chair of the Perception and Cognition Review Panel of the National Institute of Mental Health. She has published three books (one each as author, editor and co-editor), more than 20 book chapters and more than 70 journal articles. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Research Foundation. Elizabeth High Baker attended John Burroughs High School in St. Louis. She entered Washington University after a year at Stanford University and graduated in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and art history. After graduation, she moved to Houston with her parents, where she married Burke Baker Jr. After serving in the Army during World War II and working for a certified public accounting firm for several years, Mr. Baker joined the Anderson Clayton Co., retiring as executive vice president and a director. Mr. Baker passed away in 1999. The Bakers have three sons. Mrs. Baker resides in Houston, where she continues to support many local charities and maintains her interests in her family and the local community. |
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