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Through my life and research experiences, I've become fascinated with the question: how do we tap into our full potential? Specifically, I investigate "learning readiness", or the social, cognitive and neural features that predict academic motivation and learning success. I believe these clues will reveal the depths of an individual's potential to learn. And tracking the development of these features, as well as how they vary over time, across individuals from diverse backgrounds, and across

Woven fabrics derive their physical properties, and their potential uses, from the materials they’re made of and the structures in which they’re interlaced together. Operating within this binary – ingredients and recipe, “what” and “how” – we can radically change how a fabric looks, feels and behaves. Weaving, at its core an additive manufacturing process, has much in common with other fabrication methods: it’s receptive to many material inputs, capable of computer-controlled precision and yields

I joined the Design and Environmental Analysis faculty in 1993 as my first full time academic appointment. My first graduate degree was a masters in city and regional planning. I worked as city planner for a large city in New Jersey and as a facility planner and programmer for an architectural firm in New York City.  My PhD is in psychology, specifically environmental psychology. My research interests have always been, and continue to be, related