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Donald J. Polzella
CONTACT:
9775 Greenside Court
Centerville, OH 45458
Phone: (937) 307-2542
Email: < polzella@udayton.edu >
Web: < http://www.udayton.edu/polzella >
EDUCATION:
University of Michigan (Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, 1974)
Bucknell University (A.M. in Psychology, 1969)
University of Rochester (A.B. in Psychology, 1967)
EMPLOYMENT:
2014-present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Dayton
2005-2014: Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton
1984-2014: Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Dayton
1977-1984: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Dayton
1972-1977: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Dayton
AWARDS:
University of Dayton Research Institute Award for Meritorious Research
University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award
University of Dayton Chapter of Sigma Xi George B. Noland Research Award
University of Dayton Raymond A. Roesch Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
15 undergraduate and graduate courses in the University of Dayton Department of Psychology,
the University of Dayton Department of Music, and the Lebanon Ohio Correctional Institution.
SCHOLARSHIP:
42 papers and posters presented at national and international scholarly meetings.
35 invited addresses and workshops presented at national and international venues.
10 technical reports for universities, the Ohio State Department of Education, and Department of
Defense and NATO research centers and laboratories.
16 papers published in research conference proceedings.
7 published educational book and film reviews.

2. 33 articles published in books and refereed journals.
FUNDED RESEARCH:
19 grants and contracts funded by private and government agencies on aviation, information
technology, electronic learning, family literacy, and the arts totaling over $17,000,000.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
January 1982 - August 1983. Research Scientist at the Air Force Human Resources
Laboratory/Operations Training Division (AFHRL/OT) at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona.
Duties included the development of an aircrew training management information system for
Tactical Air Command and an evaluation of advanced instructional features on United States Air
Force flight simulators.
August 1986 - August 1987. Air Force Office of Scientific Research/Air Force Aerospace
Medical Division AMD Research Scholar at the USAF Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research
Laboratory, Human Engineering Division, Workload and Ergonomics Branch (AAMRL/HEG).
January 1989 - December 1991. Chief Scientist of CSERIAC, the Crew System Ergonomics
Information Analysis Center. CSERIAC's mission was to provide engineers and designers with
ergonomic information analysis products and services to support research, design, and
development of space, air, surface, and subsurface man-machine systems. CSERIAC was funded
by the Department of Defense, hosted by the USAF Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research
Laboratory, and operated under contract by the University of Dayton Research Institute.
CONSULTING ($100/hour):
1971-1972. Consulting editor for Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, Volumes 10,
11.
May 1974. Consulting editor for Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc. [H. S. Cairns & C. E. Cairns'
A Cognitive View of Language.]
February 1978. Consulting editor for Cummings Publishing Company, Inc./Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company. [M. R. Denny & R. H. Davis' Approaching the Study of Human Behavior.]
April 1990. Legal consultant for Great American Insurance Company. [Expert opinion on
trademark infringement.]
1993. Consulting Editor for Special Issue of Safety Science: Warnings and Risk Communication,
Volume 16.
February 1994. Consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. [D. Hothersall's
History of psychology 3/e.]
May 1994. Consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. [L. Benjamin's History of
psychology: original sources and contemporary research 2/e.]
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3. May 1994. Archival researcher for Charles Scribner’s Sons. [A. Keiler’s Marian Anderson: A
singer’s journey.]
October 1994. Consulting editor for the journal Family Relations.
December 1994. Consulting editor for Brown & Benchmark. [L. Benjamin's A history of
psychology in letters.]
April 1997. Consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. [S. McIntire & L. Miller’s
An introduction to psychological testing.]
April 1998. Consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. [Introductory psychology.]
May 1998. Consulting editor for Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. [History of psychology.]
September 1998. Consulting editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. [M. Passer & R.
Smith’s Introductory Psychology.]
November 1998. Consulting editor for Wadsworth Publishing Company. [J. Nairne’s
Psychology: the adaptive mind 2/e.]
December 1998. Consulting editor for Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. [History of
psychology.]
June 1999. Consulting Editor for Simon & Schuster Publishing Company. [Interpersonal
communication.]
February 2000. Consulting Editor for Worth Publishers. [P. Gray’s Psychology 3/e.]
April 2000 - April 2004. Webmaster for Global Village Communications.
September 2000. Consulting editor for John Wiley & Sons. [D. Westen’s Psychology: Brain,
behavior, & culture 3/e.]
November 2000 - March 2004. Webmaster for Dayton Area Psychological Association.
December 2000. Research consultant for True Dimensional Sound, Inc. [Test and evaluation of
proprietary sound enhancing algorithm.]
May 2002. Consulting editor for Prentice Hall. [L. Barker’s Psychology.]
August 2002. Consulting editor for Rutledge. [N. Sheehy’s Fifty key thinkers in psychology.]
August 2002. Consulting editor for Allyn & Bacon. [A history of western psychology.]
August 2001-June 2006. Psychology Coordinator for John Wiley & Sons Faculty Network.
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4. July 2011-September 2011. Research consultant for Acceleron Learning, LLC, [Curriculum
development.]
July 2011-September 2013. Research consultant for Imagination at Work, Inc. [Test and
evaluation of the EmographicTM Segmentation Model for consumer research.]
March 2005-present. Psychology Editor for American Library Association, Resources for
College Libraries.
June 2010-June 2014. First Reader Panel for Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalists (nonfiction).
February 19-20, 2014. Program evaluator of Master of Science Interdisciplinary Program at
Texas A&M University-Texarkana.
March 3-4, 2014. Workshop presenter at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al
Akhawayn University, Morocco on Grants and contracts: Guidelines and procedures for
externally funded research.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
General psychology
Learning and memory
Sensation and perception
Cognitive science
Psychology of the arts
Psychology of language
Human factors and ergonomics
Statistics
Test and evaluation
Computer programming
Computer usability
Electronic learning
Grant writing
REFERENCES:
Available on request
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