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Alicia J. Knoedler, CRA, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Dr. Alicia J. Knoedler is currently the Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, located in the basement of Old Main. She specializes in assisting faculty, postdocs, and graduate students with identifying and applying for funding through private foundations. She is also able to assist with the conceptual development of research programs and projects, as they pertain seeking funding from any type of sponsor. For more information on the support services she provides, see the Proposal Development page.
Education and Training:
| Institution | Degree |
Year |
Area of Concentration |
| Trinity University, San Antonio, TX | B.A. |
1992 |
Psychology (Minors: Computer Science and Cognitive Science) |
| Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN | M.S. |
1994 |
Cognitive Psychology |
| Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN | Ph.D.
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1996 |
Cognitive Psychology (Minor: Cognitive Development) |
Certification
2004 Certified Research Administrator
(CRA), Research Administrators Certification Council
Experience as a Research Administrator:
After several years of honing her teaching skills in Psychology, Dr. Knoedler took a position in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. She began her position as a Research Administrator in the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), assisting Social Science faculty in the College with the development, submission, and revision of both internal and external grant proposals. Within 3 years, she was promoted to Assistant Director of ISLA, expanded ISLA services to include graduate students, and help to increase the number of proposal submissions by 165% and amounts of awards by 350%.
In July, 2004, she accepted a position in the Department of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University as the Proposal Development and Research Consultant. In this position, she assisted department faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in their efforts to obtain both internal and external funding for their research. She also worked with Department staff in efforts to improve post-award management and increase efficiency and accuracy with grant expenditures. Dr. Knoedler offered a graduate-level grant writing course in the Spring semesters to graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty.
In October 2004, Dr. Knoedler became a Certified Research Administrator. This certification, bestowed by the Research Administrators Certification Council, indicates that Dr. Knoedler's expertise in research administration spans the pre-award (proposals), post-award, financial, and compliance areas of research administration.
In July, 2006, Dr. Knoedler became the Assistant Director in the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations, an arm of the Penn State University Development and Alumni Relations Office. As Assistant Director, Dr. Knoedler specializes in matching private foundations with faculty research programs, Centers, Institutes, student programs, and other scholarship support initiatives. She works closely with faculty and other investigators in their efforts to pursue foundation funding for their research.
Personal Philosophy on Providing Research and Project Development Support:
"Concentrate on the science, I will take care of the rest." This statement summarizes Dr. Knoedler's approach to providing proposal development support and service. Proposal writing is a time- and thought-intensive process and the merit and impact of the research idea is what will result in funded research. However, sloppy and/or incomplete proposals and proposals that are not well matched in priority or scope to the agency/sponsor will keep a proposal from being funded. Therefore, Dr. Knoedler consults with investigators in the development of their research ideas, scope, and impact as well as taking care of all other aspects of the proposal that investigators may not have time to devote as much attention to.
Area of Specialization in Psychology:
Dr. Knoedler's research interests in Cognitive Psychology focus on basic processes involved in human memory. Specifically, she is interested in how information that is assumed to be irrelevant to the task of remembering a stimulus item affects an individual's memory for that item. This research involves manipulating elements in the environment, such as the voices that are used to present words as stimulus items, manipulating time, as in presenting stimulus items separated by specific intervals of time, and manipulating linguistic elements, such as sentence clauses. She is also interested in the decision and response characteristics of memory; some of Dr. Knoedler's research concerns response bias patterns that make decision characteristics look like failures of memory. In addition, Dr. Knoedler is also interested in forgetting and interference effects in memory as well as the effects of aging on memory processes.
Other Information:
| Address: | Contact Information: |
| Five Old Main | Phone: 814-863-4308 |
| Penn State University | Fax: 814-865-6468 |
| University Park, PA 16802 | Email: aknoedle@psu.edu |
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