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Laura Lawrence, MBA   Educational Experience: BA, Communications - Advertising/Journalism/PR, UW-Whitewater MBA, Marketing, UW-Whitewater   Focus of Study: Advertising Marketing Journalism Public Relations Business Management

Kelvin Richardson, MA   Educational Experience: BA, History/Anthropology/Business Administration, Colorado State University MA, History/Soviet Studies/Social Science, University of Kansas   Focus of Study: History - World History, Soviet History, Modern American History, Cultural Studies Anthropology, Social Science, Psychology, Geography, Humanities, Integration of Social Sciences

Brooke Davis, MA (IP)   Educational Experience: BA , Public Relations/Communications, Loras University MA (IP), Organizational Management, Ashford University   Focus of Study: My main focus of study in my undergrad was Communications/Public Relations courses. I put together several mock marketing and public relations campaigns. I also had many courses in different types of English composition and English literature as elective credits.

Melody Anderson, MBA (IP)   Educational Experience: BA, Communications, California State University MBA (IP), Marketing, South University   Focus of Study: I am currently working on my MBA in marketing.

Kathy Terry, MA   Educational Experience: BSc, Communication, University of Maryland University College MA, Education , America InterContinental University   Focus of Study: Currently I am working towards my Master's in Mental Health Counseling. I have also completed work towards my PHD in Education as well.

Christine Cde Baca, EdS   Educational Experience: BA, Communications, University of Denver EdS, School Psychology, University of Northern Colorado   Focus of Study: School Psychology

Anna Liza Gaspar, MBA   Educational Experience: BS, Business Administration and Accountancy, University of the Philippines MBA, Masters in Business Administration, De La Salle University   Focus of Study: Finance and business

Jo Ann Prevetti, MBA, PhD (IP)   Educational Experience: Master of Business Administration, Business, University of Phoenix Bachelor of Science in Paralegal Studies, Criminal, Civil, Business and Real Estate Law, Kaplan College Business Diploma, Business, Katharine Gibbs Business College for Women   Focus of Study: I am currently pursuing my Ph. D. in Business

Amanda Houdashell, MBA (IP)   Educational Experience: BA, Communication, Arizona State University MBA HR IP, Human Resources, Capella University   Focus of Study: I am currently obtaining my Masters in Business Administration with a specialization in Human Resources. Prior to that I focused on Communication with specializations in rhetoric and intercultural communication.

Peter Jonason, PhD (IP)   Educational Experience: BA, Political Science and Communication Science, University of Connecticut MA, Communication Science, University of Connecticut PhD (IP), Experimental Social Psychology, New Mexico State University   Focus of Study: I have eclectic research interests. But let me touch on the main ones here. Adaptive individual differences: Traditionally, evolutionary psychology has focused on species-typical adaptations. Personality psychology, in contrast, has focused on individual differences. When these two are combined they are called evolutionary personality psychology. This type of evolutionary approach is considered to be the most challenging. In this case, instead, of traits being by-products or neutral, personality traits are reflections of underlying social strategies. My research in this area focuses mainly on the Dark Triad (narcissism, psychopathy, & Machiavellianism). I have already established that the Dark Triad facilitates short-term mating in men. I am pursuing the nature of this personality cluster beyond mating to general life strategies like risk-taking and credit card debt as well as to topics such mate-poaching and mate-guarding. While these personality traits are often thought of as maladaptive, in the colloquial sense, they appear to also be adaptive in the evolutionary sense. Clearly they cannot be all bad. Perhaps the best example of the cluster is James Bond, a male icon. Conditional mating strategies: Mick Jagger may have said it best: "you can't always get what you want." Research suggests that individuals do not always get to date who they want to as a result of factors such as how attractive they are and how attractive those around them are. When individuals are confronted with the reality of an inability to date the most intelligent or the most attractive person they tend to make compromises in their mate preferences. These compromises come with costs, such as if an individual decides to lower the strength in their preference for physical attractiveness, they are confronted with the fact that those they are dating are not as attractive as they really want. However, little research addresses what strategies individuals take to trade the costs and benefits of these compromises in newly forming relationships. Moreover, little research formally tests the trade-off hypothesis with tangible estimators of the trade-off (e.g., how many mate-dollars would you invest or how many miles would you travel for a new romantic relationship). Relationships as negotiations: Researchers have predominantly focused their across-relationship analyses to one-night stands and monogamously married or dating dyads. However, there are other relationship types (e.g., "friends with benefits" and swingers) that exist in the dating ecology that may yield reformulations of this polarized perspective, a greater understanding of what really comprises a relationship, and what individual differences are associated with certain types of relationship choices. One could call these other relationship "hybrids" because they have features of both long-term and short-term relationship patterns in a more equal quantity than those relationship types under typical investigation. While more descriptive work is needed, these relatively untouched areas of sexual and romantic relationship research are open for not only exploration but are likely to yield interesting findings in dating dynamics, partner preferences, and the battle of the sexes.

[Note: "(IP)" denotes that a degree is in "In Progress"]