Faculty Directory
Family and Consumer Studies
Diener, Marissa
238 AEB
Phone: 581-8750
Email: marissa.diener@fcs.utah.edu
General Research Interests: Socioemotional development
in infants and young children; parent-child relationships
and interaction; child temperament & parent personality; intervention
with at-risk families.
Student Participation: Data collection involves interacting
with young children and their parents; videotape coding of
children & their parents; data entry.
Background Needed: No experience needed but having
taken a research methods course in the social sciences would
be helpful. Spanish speaking a bonus for literacy project.
Outside Majors: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology,
Social Work.
Key Words: Parent-child interaction, social development,
literacy.
Student generated projects might be considered.
Levy, Gary
110 Park
Phone: 581-3286
Email: gary.levy@utah.edu
General
Research interests: Institutional data and budget information.
Student
participation: IT/database programming, statistical analyses
and summary, data cleansing and collection.
Background
needed: Basic IT skills, especially Excel. Stat/basic
skills would be helpful, experience with data and analyses.
Outside Majors: MIS, CIS, IT, business, social/physical
sciences, education, administration, political science.
Key
words: Organizational management, higher education, management
info systems.
Mayer, Robert
228 AEB
Phone: 581-5771
Email: robert.mayer@fcs.utah.edu
General
Research Interest: Consumer policy, consumer movement,
globalization, marketing, electronic commerce.
Student
Participation: Can help on several current research projects
(e.g., protection of financial privacy).
Background
Needed: Solid research skills, ability to analyze quantitative
data desirable but not necessary.
Outside
Majors: Political science, Sociology, Economics, Marketing,
Business.
Key
Words: Consumer policy.
Student
generated projects may be considered.
Wolfinger, Nicholas H.
228 AEB
Phone: 581-7491
E-mail: Nick.Wolfinger@fcs.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Divorce, marriage, sociology
of the family, research methods.
Student Participation: Library research, possible
collaboration.
Outside Majors: Sociology, Psychology, Economics,
Applied Math/Statistics.
Key Words: Divorce, marriage, family.
Student generated projects may be considered.
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