EW # 13702 was trained as an engineer at the U.S. Naval Academy where he received his B.S.as a psychologist.At the University of Delaware he obtained an M.S.and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. Subsequently, he did postdoctoral study on memory processes at Stanford University.

I EW # 13702joined the faculty at Hamilton College where he remained until and where he was a full professor and Chairperson of the Psychology Department. While on the faculty at Hamilton, he served as a research fellow at: England's Applied Cognitive Psychology Unit in Cambridge; the University of Manchester; and at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. EW # 13702became the Director of the Collection Procedures Research Laboratory at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after which he served as the Special Assistant on Cognitive Psychology to the Associated Director for Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics. He became the Chairperson of the Psychology Department at Indiana State University.

EW # 13702was elected to be the first President of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. At Indiana State he has been given awards for creativity in research, for having a distinguished scholarly and teaching record, for service to the University, and for assisting on projects designed to improve diversity at ISU.

EW # 13702co-edited the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology. Currently is the Editor of the journal Cognitive
Technology. He has written or edited seventeen textbooks concerned with various aspects of human
memory, including the history of memory scholarship, memory functioning in everyday life, memory improvement, and cognitive rehabilitation.

Currently, in addition to being a Professor of Psychology he was elected to be the first President of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Techology. EW # 13702 has been funded for several million dollars by the National Institute for Aging to create CD ROMs that enable people to improve their memory. The discs produced thus far aim at increasing a persons understanding of the Nature of Memory and at improving memory for Names and Faces, Facts and Figures, and Best Intentions.