February 9, 2001
The following are among the new faculty members on the Hilltop Campus. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Larry L. Jacoby, Ph.D., joins the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences as professor. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Washburn University in 1966 and a doctorate in psychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1970. His research focuses on the distinction between consciously controlled and automatic processes. Jacoby uses techniques that separate these two components of responding to forms of memory, which are relatively uninfluenced by aging, to explore neural bases of memory. A goal of his research is to develop procedures for rehabilitating memory. He is also interested in various problems in social psychology. Jacoby's research is supported by funding from the National Institute of Aging.
Gregory Miller, Ph.D., joins the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in psychology in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles. After completing his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1998, also at UCLA, he completed two years of post-doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon University. Miller's research examines the inter-relationships among chronic psychological stress, the immune system and disease, primarily in the context of infectious disease. He has received a number of awards for this work, including a predoctoral National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and both pre- and post-doctoral appointments to National Institutes of Health-funded training grants. Miller is currently principal investigator on a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University Center.
Joe R. Barcroft, Ph.D., joins the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of Spanish, second language acquisition, and applied linguistics. He earned bachelor's degrees in 1988 in Spanish and in 1989 in anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the Bronze Tablet and other academic awards for the top 1 percent of UIUC students. Barcroft earned his doctorate in May 2000 in Spanish and second language acquisition from UIUC. He is a specialist in processing resources and second language lexical acquisition. He was assistant editor of Spanish Applied Linguistics from 1997-99 and managing editor of the journal Discourse during the same years, and has published a number of articles and given papers at professional meetings.
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