Liesel Ritchie
Email: Liesel.Ritchie@ssrc.msstate.edu
Phone: (662) 325-0853
For the past eight years, Dr. Ritchie has served as Principal Investigator and Evaluator on a variety of diverse research and evaluation projects with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the U.S. Department of Education; the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service; the Mississippi State Department of Health; Mississippi State University Extension Service; the National Science Foundation; the U.S. Department of the Interior; and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Ritchie is the Coordinator for the SSRC’s Evaluation and Decision Support Laboratory (E&DSL). The E&DSL assists in facilitating group processes by using portable, networked personal computers in face-to-face electronic meetings.
Dr. Ritchie received her Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Mississippi State University where she was honored as the 2002 Outstanding Doctoral Student. Her dissertation research on technological disasters is a qualitative study of social impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. She continues to pursue her interest in disaster and risk research by studying social impacts of the December 2004 wreck of the Selendang Ayu off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (funded by the National Science Foundation through the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center).
Dr. Ritchie was the 2001 recipient of the Mississippi State University “Outstanding Professional Non-Faculty Woman Award,” presented by the President’s Commission on the Status of Women (MSU), and is a three-time recipient of Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review “Hammer Award” for her contributions to NASA’s education program. Most recently, she received NASA’s Public Service Group Achievement Award as a member of a team recognized for developing a Geospatial Technology Competency Model for the Earth Science Enterprise.
March 6, 2011SSRC 2011 Annual Report
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