Dawn Blasko - Penn State Erie

                 Email:  dgb6@psu.edu

Dawn Blasko is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn State Erie. Her research interests include the psychology of language, individual differences in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. She received her bachelor’s of science degree in psychology from Marywood College and her MA and PhD in Experimental psychology at SUNY Binghamton. She teaches courses in research methods, cognition and diversity studies and uses the Psych experiments site in several classes. She has also used Authorware for web-based data collection in an interdisciplinary project on spatial visualization.  She enjoys outreach activities including partnerships with local schools and organizing on-site science and technology fairs for all age groups. She has developed educational software and has conducted teacher training programs on gender and achievement.