UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTEA University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit |
UC LMRI is governed by a Director and a Faculty Steering Committee appointed by the Office of the President.
Members of the Faculty Steering Committee represent each of the UC campuses and serve renewable three-year terms. In addition to the campus representatives, the Steering Committee includes a representative from the UC Office of the President.
See also: Faculty Steering Committee Research
Current UC LMRI Faculty Steering Committee Members:
- Jamal Abedi
- Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.
- Joseph Castro
- Margaret A. Gibson
- Kris Gutierrez
- Jin Sook Lee
- Paula Levin
- Robert Ochsner
- Robin Scarcella
- Laura Sterponi
- Dante Noto, Ex Officio
- Jeannie Oakes, Ex Officio
- Laura Romo, Ex Officio
- Russell W. Rumberger, Ex Officio
- Patricia Gandara, Ex Officio
Providing information on educational issues affecting linguistic minorities as well as racial and ethnic minorities, and immigrants. More »
LAURA ROMO, Assistant Professor of Education (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, UCLA, 2000), University of California, Santa Barbara, was appointed assistant director of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute in 2007.
Her training in both cognitive and social development has afforded her the opportunity to examine communication and health education processes within a variety of contexts, including teacher-student and parent-adolescent relationships. She is also interested in improving mother-daughter communication on topics related to adolescents' educational aspirations.
Her research areas and interests focus on adolescent development; Latina mother-daughter relationships; social, cultural, and cognitive influences on health behavior; health education and communication; and adolescent sexuality.
For additional information and publications, see: http://education.ucsb.edu/Faculty-Research/Faculty-Listing/bio.php?first=Laura&last=Romo
Email: lromo@lmri.ucsb.edu