Leadership Team

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  • Framework
  • Community Engagement Collective
  • Engagement Pathways

    • Leadership Team

    U-TuRN is guided by a team of faculty that each lead (or contribute to) one of the four interdisciplinary teams linked the U-TuRN. They each are also involved in one or more U-TuRN Projects and share a commitment to the overall goals and vision of the network. The team embraces principles of Team Science and can collectively be reached through our shared email account: uturn_teamscience@iastate.edu

    Team Leader
    Gregory Welk gwelk@iastate.edu

    U-TuRN PI; Barbara E. Forker Professor, Kinesiology

    Phillips
    Alison Phillips alisonp@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 2, Associate Professor, Psychology

    Scudder
    Ashley Scudder ascudder@iastate.edu

    Associate Director of Research and Outreach, U-TuRN; Leader: Team 1; Lecturer, Human Development & Family Studies

    Carl Weems cweems@iastate.edu

    U-TuRN Co-PI; Professor and Chair, Human Development and Family Studies

    Constance Beecher cbeecher@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 4; Assistant Professor/ Family Literacy Extension State Specialist 

    Headshot of Katie Richardson Bruna
    Katie Richardson Bruna krbruna@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 4; Co PI, Professor, School of Education

    Jacob Meyer jdmeyer3@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 2; Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

    Linda Shenk shenk@iastate.edu

    Associate Professor, English

    Lorraine Lanningham-Foster lmlf@iastate.edu

    Associate Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition

    Michael Dorneich dorneich@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 3; Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

    Richard Spoth rlspoth@iastate.edu

    U-TuRN Co-PI; Leader: Team 2; Scientist III, Human Development and Family Studies

    Stephen Gilbert gilbert@iastate.edu

    Leader: Team 3; Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering