Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ellen A. Wartella (born October 16, 1949 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. Professor of Communication Studies and of Psychology at Northwestern University since 2010, she was Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, from 2004–2009. Wartella was dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin from 1993–2004, where she also held the Walter Cronkite Regents Chair, the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair, and the UNESCO Chair in International Communication.She received a B.A. with honors from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971, and M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She then taught at Ohio State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before assuming the Texas deanship.The author or editor of 12 books and approximately 175 book chapters, research articles, technical reports and research papers, Wartella is a co-principal Investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: “IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children” funded by the National Research Foundation (2006–2011). She was a co-principal Investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995–1998) and a co-principal investigator of the Children's Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001–2006).Currently chair of the Front-of-Package Marketing study committee of the Institute of Medicine for the National Science Foundation, she serves on Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop and the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families. She recently served on the Institute of Medicine's Panel Study on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2006). During 2006-2007 she was the Inaugural Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and is the past President and Fellow of the International Communication Association. She received the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the ICA, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association and the Krieghbaum Under 40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.. }
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- Ellen_Wartella abstract "Ellen A. Wartella (born October 16, 1949 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. Professor of Communication Studies and of Psychology at Northwestern University since 2010, she was Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, from 2004–2009. Wartella was dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin from 1993–2004, where she also held the Walter Cronkite Regents Chair, the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair, and the UNESCO Chair in International Communication.She received a B.A. with honors from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971, and M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She then taught at Ohio State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before assuming the Texas deanship.The author or editor of 12 books and approximately 175 book chapters, research articles, technical reports and research papers, Wartella is a co-principal Investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: “IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children” funded by the National Research Foundation (2006–2011). She was a co-principal Investigator on the National TV Violence Study (1995–1998) and a co-principal investigator of the Children's Digital Media Center project funded by the National Science Foundation (2001–2006).Currently chair of the Front-of-Package Marketing study committee of the Institute of Medicine for the National Science Foundation, she serves on Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop and the National Educational Advisory Board of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children Youth and Families. She recently served on the Institute of Medicine's Panel Study on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth (2006). During 2006-2007 she was the Inaugural Fellow of the Fred Rogers Center. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and is the past President and Fellow of the International Communication Association. She received the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the ICA, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association and the Krieghbaum Under 40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.".