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Carl Boehlert
Associate Professor, Chemical engineering and Materials Science
E-mail: boehlert@egr.msu.edu
Web: www.egr.msu.edu/~boehlert/SEMED
Evaluation Interest Areas: Youth development and outreach
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcomes evaluation
Organizations worked with: Local area high schools

Rebecca Campbell
Associate Professor, Psychology
E-mail: rmc@msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Violence against women (victim services and prevention)
Evaluation Type Interests: Evaluation capacity building, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, evaluation technical assistance

Robert E. Floden
University Distinguished Professor, Teacher Education/Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education
E-mail: floden@msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: K-12 school reform, philanthropic initiatives, teacher education & professional development
Organizations worked with: Learning to Give (K-12 philanthropy education), Grand Rapids Public Schools
Dr. Floden's research has examined the effects of education policies on teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on roles of preservice teacher preparation and professional development. He is currently co-PI of MSU's Carnegie-funded Teachers for a New Era initiative, PI on an NSF-funded project developing measures of teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching algebra, and PI on an evaluation of the partnership between the Institute for Learning and the Grand Rapids Public Schools. He has served as editor of both Educational Researcher and the Review of Research in Education. Dr. Floden is a member of the National Academy of Education, served as president of the Philosophy of Education Society, served on the National Research Council Committee on Education Research, was selected as an Alexander von Humbolt Fellow, and received the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

J. Kevin Ford
Professor, Psychology
E-mail: fordjk@msu.edu
Web: iopsych.msu.edu/jkf/
Evaluation Interest Areas: Public and private sector organizations
Evaluation Type Interests: Organizational change, transfer of workplace training
Organizations worked with: Great Lakes Industries, City of Jackson Police Department, State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources, General Motors
Dr. Ford is a professor of psychology at Michigan State University. His major research interests involve improving training effectiveness through efforts to advance our understanding of training needs assessment, design, evaluation and transfer. Dr. Ford also concentrates on building continuous learning and improvement orientations within organizations. He is an active consultant with private industry and the public sector on training, leadership, and organizational change issues. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He received his BS in psychology from the University of Maryland and his MA and Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University. Further information about Dr. Ford and his research and consulting activities can be found at http://www.io.psy.msu.edu/jkf

Mildred A. Horodynski
Professor, Nursing
E-mail: millie@msu.edu
Web: nursing.msu.edu/neat/index.asp
Evaluation Interest Areas: Toddler feeding self-regulation, parent-child interaction, parent-child mealtime interaction, patient satisfaction, birth outcomes associated with prenatal care, and childbirth education.
Evaluation Type Interests: Implementation evaluation and outcome evaluation Organizations worked with: Early Head Start Programs in rural and urban Michigan, one Head Start program, Building Strong Families programs across Michigan, three rural Michigan hospitals, two rural district healthy departments, and two urban comprehensive care centers.
Dr. Horodynski is very experienced in the field of research, including fifteen years of conducting community-based studies focusing on limited-income families and community-based care, particularly family and child health, nutrition education for toddlers, and obesity prevention for limited-income families with young children. Her numerous studies have employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. Formerly funded work includes investigation of toddler feeding self-regulation, parent-child interaction, parent-child mealtime interaction, patient satisfaction, birth outcomes associated with prenatal care, and childbirth education. These projects involved work with Early Head Start Programs in rural and urban Michigan, one Head Start program, three rural Michigan hospitals, two rural district healthy departments, and two urban comprehensive care centers.

Maria K. Lapinski
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, MAES, NFSTC
E-mail: lapinsk3@msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Health and Environmental Issues, Intercultural/International
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcome evaluation and process evaluation
Dr. Lapinski is a specialist in risk communication who is joint-appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at Michigan State University. Dr. Lapinski received her doctorate in 2000 from MSU and her master’s of arts from University of Hawaii, Manoa. She researches the impact of messages and social-psychological factors on health and environmental risk perceptions and behaviors with a particular interest in culturally-based differences and similarities. To this end, Dr. Lapinski has conducted research projects with her colleagues in a number of countries in Asia, the Pacific Rim, Central America, and Africa. Her work has been presented at national and international communication and public health conferences, published in public health and communication journals and is currently funded by the National Science Foundation.

Steven R. Miller
Director, Center for Economic Analysis
E-mail: mill1707@msu.edu
Web: cea.msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Economic development, fiscal Impacts of programs, events, and policy
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcomes evaluation
Organizations worked with: MEDC, MI-SBTDC, MSU Economic Development AoE Team, IR-4 Pesticide Registration, College of Animal Science
Steven Miller specializes in applied economic methods for forecasting and impact analysis. As a graduate student, Steven maintained and programmed the Oklahoma State University Econometric Forecasting model and served as investigator on several Oklahoma Department of Human Resources studies of TANF funding, and child support studies for impact and needs assessments. He has produced numerous impact assessments of Wichita, Kansas area businesses seeking state and local sponsored incentives, produced papers on aviation demand across competing regional airports, and papers on alternative estimation methods of systems modeling.

Michael Moch
Professor, Management
E-mail: moch@msu.edu
Web: www.bus.msu.edu/mgt
Evaluation Interest Areas: Economic development; corporate and business unit strategies
Evaluation Type Interests: Projects that address private for-profit businesses. These projects focus on 1) assessing the determinants of value-added contributions, 2) finding gaps between current and potential performance levels, 3) growing the business, and 4) transforming the business.
Organizations worked with: Over 200 companies over 25 years, including the big three US auto companies, many suppliers to that industry, and others. I am currently adapting this experience to help redesign Broad Executive MBA Program around "living laboratory" real-time projects in operating companies.
Dr. Moch is a professor of Management, MSU, 1984 – present. Hi previous academic appointments include, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan. Dr. Moch received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He received his B.A. from Yale University (1967). His academic interests include: business strategy and the ethics of business strategy; organization design, and organization change.

Mary Nettleman, MD, MS
Professor and Chair, Medicine
E-mail: mary.nettleman@ht.msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Infectious disease epidemiology: Travel medicine, infection control, TB, STIs; Women's Health: Prevention of unintended pregnancy, early pregnancy recognition
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcomes research, health services research Organizations Worked With: CDC, MDCH, NIH
Dr. Nettleman's research focuses on Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Women's Health. These fields overlap in the areas of sexually transmitted diseases. She has a particular interest in early pregnancy recognition and infectious diseases epidemiology. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has current & past external funding.

Harry Perlstadt
Professor, Sociology
E-mail: perlstad@msu.edu
Web: www.msu.edu/~perlstad/
Evaluation Interest Areas: Health programs, including health promotion, health care delivery systems, community based health programs
Evaluation Type Interests: Program evaluation, outcome evaluation, organizational change
Organizations Worked With: W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Health Resource Services Administration (HRSA), National Institute for Mental Health (NIHM), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr. Harry Perlstadt is a professor in the Department of Sociology, and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. He earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago, and has a master of public health degree in health planning and administration from the University of Michigan. Dr. Perlstadt specializes in medical sociology, health organizations and delivery systems, and evaluation research. His most recent projects are determining the need for blood lead level screenings and an assessment of possible ways to offer and pay for public employee retirement health benefits. At the national level, Dr. Perlstadt serves on the American Lung Associations National Scientific Advisory Committee. He has been chair of the American Public Health Association's Science Board and was a member of a workgroup advising the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in developing its Research Agenda.

Laura Reese
Professor/Director, Political Science/Global Urban Studies
E-mail: reesela@msu.edu
Web: www.gusp.msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Economic development policy, sexual harassment policy, land use policy
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcomes evaluation, implementation evaluation
Organizations Worked With: US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, Michigan Municipal League, Government of Ontario, various local governments in Michigan
Dr. Laura A. Reese is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. She is the author of six books and over 90 articles and technical reports on economic development and local government public personnel policies. She has conducted large scale evaluations for the Department of Commerce as well as for numerous local governments in Michigan.

Joanne Riebschleger
Assistant Professor, Social Work
E-mail: riebsch1@msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Social Work, distance education initiative, heath and mental health interventions, human services program development and outcomes, community needs assessments, rural communities
Evaluation Type Interests: Human services planning, intervention implementation, and evaluation of process and content outcomes
Dr. Riebschleger has twenty plus years of social work practice experience in Michigan, thus has worked on many projects. Most are in health and mental health services. Many in rural communities in northern lower Michigan.
- 20+ years of health and mental health social work practice experience
- Teach social work practice
- Research focused on families of people with mental illness
- Rural social work practice

Kami J. Silk
Associate Professor, Communication
E-mail: silkk@msu.edu
Web: www.cas.msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Health campaigns and interventions
Evaluation Type Interests: Formative research, process, and summative evaluation
Dr. Silk's research interest are in the broad area of health communication, with a specific interest in developing effective health messages for the lay public and diverse audiences that are sensitive to health literacy issues. Dr. Silk currently works with the Communication Outreach and Translation Core of the Breast Cancer and Environment Research Centers to design health messages for mothers and adolescent girls that focus on adolescent lifestyle factors as a strategy for breast cancer risk reduction. Dr. Silk has also conducted other nutrition related projects, and is currently doing research to improve blood donations in Michigan. She begins work on understanding lay consumer attitudes about bioeconomy initiatives in Fall 2008.

Marya R. Sosulski
Assistant Professor, Social Work
E-mail: sosulski@msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Access to services and higher education, public assistance programs, labor and employment policy for low-income people
Evaluation Type Interests: Process and outcomes evaluation, match between policy & implementation
Dr. Sosulski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University, where she teaches courses in social welfare policy and macro practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has practiced as a community organizer, educator, and researcher in the areas of poverty, welfare, higher education, and community practice for the past ten years. Her current research focuses on the experience, struggles, and innovative strategies that severely economically-challenged families living with chronic illness and disabilities use to succeed and maintain self-sufficiency.

Cris M. Sullivan
Professor, Ecological/Community Psychology, Psychology
E-mail: sulliv22@msu.edu
Web: www.vaw.msu.edu/core_faculty/cris_sullivan
Evaluation Interest Areas: Victim services organizations; domestic violence programs
Evaluation Type Interests: Empowerment evaluation, outcomes evaluation, formative and process evaluation, evaluation capacity-building
Organizations worked with: National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Crime Victim Services Commission, Ohio Domestic Violence Network, Scottish Women's Aid, Ireland's National Network of Women's Refuges and Support Services, Battered Women's Justice Project, others
Dr. Sullivan has been an advocate and researcher in the movement to end violence against women since 1982. In addition to her MSU appointments, Dr. Sullivan is also the Director of Evaluation for the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and Senior Research Advisor to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Dr. Sullivan's areas of research expertise include developing and evaluating community interventions for battered women and their children, improving the community response to violence against women, and evaluating victim service programs. She has received numerous federal grants to support her work over the years, including grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Justice. In addition to consulting for local, state, federal and international organizations and initiatives, Dr. Sullivan also conducts workshops on:
- Effectively advocating in the community for women with abusive partners, and their children
- Understanding the effects of domestic abuse on women and children
- Improving system responses to the problem of violence against women
- Evaluating victim service agencies.

Francisco A. Villarruel
University Outreach and Engagement Senior Fellow, Professor, Family and Child Ecology
E-mail: fvilla@Msu.edu
Web: www.msu.edu/~fvilla
Evaluation Interest Areas: Youth development, juvenile justice/DMC
Evaluation Type Interests: Outcomes evaluations, organizational change
Organizations Worked With: Center for Children's Law and Policy, National Council on La Raza, Youth Law Center

Peg Whalen
Clinical Assistant Professor & Evaluation Specialist, School of Social Work
E-mail: whalenma@msu.edu
Web: www.socialwork.msu.edu
Evaluation Interest Areas: Human services program evaluation, child and family services, public agencies and private NPO's. Teen parenting, child welfare, family group conferences, family group decision-making, youth services, adoption, domestic violence, child neglect, human-animal bond, aging research, elder abuse, veterinary social work, animal-assisted therapy, sleep disorders, child welfare mediation, community-dispute resolution, social work education, CASA programs, children with a parent with mental illness, kinship caregivers, foster parents, adoptive parents, adoption disruption
Evaluation Type Interests: Process evaluation, outcome evaluation, logic model development, organizational capacity-building for research or evaluation, system change, impact evaluation, mixed method evaluation, single-subject evaluations, drafting evaluation plans for grant proposals submitted to federal, state, and foundation organizations.
Organizations Worked With: State Organizations: Michigan Federation for Children and Families and member agencies, Michigan Department of Human Services (FIA/DHS), Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, Michigan State Court Administrators Office (SCAO), Families First of Michigan, Michigan Strong Families Safe Children collaborations throughout Michigan's 83 counties; Michigan Association for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship families, Michigan Capital Celiac Disease (CD/HD) Group. Local: City of East Lansing Senior Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Capital Area Health Alliance, and MSU College of Law. Federal Agencies: DHHS Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families.
Dr. Whalen, has a Masters of Social Work degree and a PhD in Social Science with Specialization in Social Work. Dr. Whalen is a Research Specialist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the MSU School of Social Work. She teaches introductory and applied quantitative research courses in the MSW program. She has led the School's evaluations of Michigan's post adoption services and permanency planning mediation projects, Michigan DHS Family Group Decision Making pilot projects. Her research activities include a statewide survey of Michigan adoptive parents, a federally-funded study of Michigan's Adoption Medical Subsidy program, and studies related to curriculum development for child welfare worker recruitment and retention. She is Co-Investigator for the MSU Kinship Care Resource Center 2007 survey of Michigan kinship caregivers. Dr. Whalen is co-founder of the School's human-animal bond initiative, People and Animals within the Social Environment (P.A.W.S.E.). She currently is surveying mid-Michigan veterinarians and writing about the emerging social work field of practice involving animal assisted social work, therapeutic use of animals, and the place of animals in family life and social environments. Her professional interests are broad. She is committed to offering research and evaluation services to professionals, organizations, and communities to assist in improving service delivery, securing financial support for programs and not-for-profit organizations, generating evidence of effective and innovative practice, and increasing an organizations capacity to do internal evaluations and research by training and coaching personnel in meeting the agency's needs and interests.

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