coe-staff: New Faculty Hires - Stephanie DeAnda and Emily Taylor Smith

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear COE Faculty, Staff, Students,

Your hard work on faculty search committees is paying off.  I am pleased to announce two new faculty members who will continue to push forward the boundaries of academic excellence, serve as great colleagues for our staff and faculty, and provide our students with extraordinary educational experiences.

Stephanie DeAnda is joining us as an assistant professor in communication disorders and sciences.  She, however, has broad interests and expertise in language development for mono-lingual and bilingual Spanish speakers.  She will receive her Ph.D. in the Spring from the joint program in language and communication disorders at San Diego State University and University of California at San Diego.  Some of her recent publications include;

DeAnda, S., Bosch, L., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2016). The Language
Exposure Assessment Tool: Quantifying exposure for bilingual research in young infants and
children. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research [Advance online publication], 1-11.
DeAnda, S., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2016). Lexical Processing and
Organization in Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Guiding Future Research. Psychological
Bulletin, 142(6), 655-667.
DeAnda, S., Arias-Trejo, N., Poulin-Dubois, D., Zesiger, P., & Friend, M. (2016). SES,
Minimal L2 Exposure, and Early Word Comprehension: New Evidence from a Direct
Assessment. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(1), 162-180.

Emily Tanner-Smith will be joining us as an associate professor with joint appointments in the CPHS and EMPL departments.  She is currently co-director of the meta-analysis center at Vanderbilt University and a national and international authority on meta-analytic research methods.  She holds the Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University.  She has additional expertise in drug and other substance use.  Some of her recent publications include;

Tanner-Smith, E. E., Tipton, E., & Polanin, J. R. (2016). Handling complex meta-analytic data structures using robust variance estimates: A tutorial in R. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2, 85-112. doi:10.1007/s40865-016-0026-5
Tanner-Smith, E. E., & Polanin, J. R. (2016). Brief alcohol intervention trials conducted by higher prestige authors and published in higher impact factor journals are cited more frequently. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 75, 119-125. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.01.028
Tanner-Smith, E. E., & Risser, M. D. (2016). A meta-analysis of brief alcohol interventions for adolescents and young adults: Variability in effects across alcohol measures. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 42, 140-151. doi:10.3109/00952990.2015.1136638
Tanner-Smith, E. E., & Fisher, B. W. (2016). Visible school security measures and student attendance, academic performance, and educational expectations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45, 195-210. doi:10.1007/s10964-015-0265-5

Please join me in welcoming these outstanding new faculty to our academic community.

Regards,
Randy

For scheduling, please contact Maggie Bosworth at  magboz at uoregon.edu<mailto:%20magboz at uoregon.edu> or 541-346-6467.
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R.W. Kamphaus, Ph.D. | Professor and Dean
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