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| Dr.
Dennis Denenberg
Dr. Denenberg has been an inspiration for children and adults across the nation. He has helped them to look past those imaginary heroes and concentrate on the real heroes. So instead of children looking up to Mickey Mouse, they look up to Walt Disney, Mickey's creator. |
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Barbara J. O'Keefe is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean of the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She earned her A.B., A. M., and Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She held faculty positions at Wayne State University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Northwestern. Her research areas are interpersonal and organizational communication, with a focus on the role of training and technology in improving the capability of communicators and communities. She has studied the development of communication skills across the life span, and is known for developing the theory of message design logic, which posits that differences in communication competence often reflect differences in individuals' concepts of communication. She has also studied the role of computing technologies--most recently networked computing--in helping people improve their skills and collaborate more effectively. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Markle Foundation, among others. Her work is highly interdisiplinary. She served as Director of the University of Michigan Media Union, a center for interdisciplinary study and application of emerging digital media. She is a member of the American Socitety for Information Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH), the International Communication Association, and the National Communication Association. She has served as a reviewer for Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Language and Social Psychology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, International Journal of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Communication Theory, and other leading journals. |
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Dr.
Mel Levine is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Clinical
Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University
of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Dr. Levine is also the founder of All Kinds of Minds, a non-profit
institute for the study of differences in learning. He will speak
to us about his research on this topic. |
Dr.
Dennis Denenberg is a Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood
Education at Millersville University. He has a message for everyone
that will really hit home. He is encouraging the
idea that heroes happen to be real people. So instead of having
Superman as a hero, he tries to show children that heroes are
all around us. 
