UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESSWIRE / October 4, 2024 / Marquis Who's Who honors Rita M. Curl-Langager, PhD, for her expertise as a professor. An accomplished listee, Dr. Curl-Langager celebrates many years of experience in her professional network. She has been noted for her achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field.
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Dr. Curl-Langager is a professor emeritus who taught at Minot State University in the department of addiction studies, psychology and social work and the department of education and psychology between 1991 and 2018. Her distinguished tenure included teaching multiple courses in psychology, including adolescent development, adult development and aging, industrial-organizational psychology, applied behavior analysis and a capstone course. Furthermore, Dr. Curl-Langager was chairperson or officer for several campus committees.
Having taught higher education for over 30 years, Dr. Curl-Langager previously spent five years as an educator at Utah State University beginning in 1986, serving as a research assistant professor in the special education department and as an adjunct associate professor in the psychology department.
A talented writer, Dr. Curl-Langager recently completed a 12-chapter psychology textbook on adulthood, which will be accompanied by an instructor's manual. The book is titled "Adulthood: An Introduction," and the manual will be titled "Instructor's Manual for Adulthood: An Introduction," released via Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
As a scholar, Dr. Curl-Langager previously authored chapters in several books. She has also published various manuscripts, reports, manuals and other publications, co-authored numerous scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, and was a reviewer and guest reviewer for multiple professional publications.
Moreover, Dr. Curl-Langager has served as director for many projects, including the North Dakota Project for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Encore: An Entrepreneurial Model Utilizing Nonprofessional Co-Workers as Sources of Employment Support.
Dr. Curl-Langager graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, cum laude, from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1974 and a Master of Science in child development and family relationships from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976. She also received a Doctor of Philosophy in developmental and child psychology from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1982. Additionally, Dr. Curl-Langager received an elementary education teaching certificate for grades K-9.
Aligned with several professional organizations supporting her career, Dr. Curl-Langager has been active as a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Gerontological Society of America. She was also a presidential candidate, chairperson and task force member of several Society for the Teaching of Psychology committees and a member of the aging work group for the American Association of University Affiliated Programs.
In addition to securing numerous grants for her work and serving as a principal investigator for nine of them, Dr. Curl-Langager has received several accolades, including an Award for Outstanding Research Presentation from the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy and a Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Poster Presentation from the Association for Behavior Analysis. Dr. Curl-Langager also received recognition as Exchangite of the Year by the Minot Exchange Club for her tenures as a former president and president-elect.
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