She received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis on learning and behavior analysis from Auburn University. Dr. Rossi conducts research in the area of learning and cognition, with an emphasis on training issues. She has published works in the psychology of teaching and advising, in areas of human factors as it relates to training, and in behavior analysis. She has collaborated with faculty in Aerospace Science Engineering on research projects relating to human factors in flight training and visualization training and has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous funded research projects, receiving funding by the Army Research Institute, NASA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Department of Education, Office of Special Education. She serves as Chair of the University's Intellectual Property Committee, and as Recording Secretary to the Council of Department Heads. She is also Co-Chair of the Rights Protection Committee of The Learning Tree, in Tallassee, AL. Dr. Rossi was responsible for the 1992 installation of the Tuskegee University Chapter of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology, and continues to serve as the advisor for the chapter. Dr. Rossi is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Association for Psychological Science, the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Office BIOE 44-304

Phone 334-727-8830

email: rossi@tuskegee.edu

Office Hours for Fall 2009

M, W 1:00-3:00; T 10:00-12:00: or by appointment

Teaching: Introductory Psychology, Theories of Learning, Applied Behavior Analysis, Human Factors Psychology, Social Psychology, History of Psychology, Experimental Psychology.

Research Interests: Human factors issues related to flight training, terrain visualization training, teaching of psychology, and applications of behavior analysis to non-traditional areas.

Selected Recent Publications:

Rossi, M.J., Khan, M.J., Nanda, S., Lickteig, C., Schaefer, P. (2009). Anytime, Anywhere Terrain Visualization Training System: Combining Training Theory and Technology. Technical Report No. 1245. U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. 

Rossi, M. J.(2008). Invited Podcast Interview entitled "Helping Students with Personal Problems", posted at Xavier University's "Teaching, Learning and Everything Else: Conversations about Teaching in Higher Education," Conversation #3 at http://cat.xula.edu/podcast/

Rossi, M., Khan, M.J., Lickteig, C.W., Schaefer, P.S., Burke, T.J. (2007). Anytime, anywhere terrain visualization training. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, Orlando, FL.

Rossi, M.J. (2006). Helping students with their personal problems: Should I help and how? In. W. Buskist & B. Bein's (Eds.) Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology, 309-313.

Rossi, M., Khan, M. J. and Lickteig, C. (2006.) Integrating training and technology to train terrain visualization. Proceedings of the Huntsville Simulation Conference, Huntsville, AL, Oct. 2006.

Khan, M. J., Rossi, M., Heath, B., Ali, S. F. and Ward, M. (2006.) An experimental study of the effect of out-of-the-window cues on training novice pilots on a flight simulator. Proceedings of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Conference, San Francisco, CA Oct. 2006.

Rossi, M.J., Keeley, J. and Buskist, W.F.  (2005). High school psychology and student performance in the college introductory psychology course. Teaching of Psychology, 32(1), 52-54.

Awards/Honors

Faculty Performance Award for Research (College of Liberal Arts & Education) - 2007

Faculty Performance Award for Teaching (College of Liberal Arts & Education) - 1998

Tuskegee University Faculty Performance Award for Research (School of Education) - 1995

Georgia-Vallery Award for Best Senior Undergraduate Psychology Student, 1984