CSBR Staff

Gene M. Lutz, Ph.D. - Director    

Mary Losch, Ph.D. - Assistant Director   

Disa Cornish, M.S. - Program Evaluator

Thomas M. Turner, B.A. -
Information Technology Specialist

Mel E. Gonnerman, Ph.D. -
Senior Research Methodologist  

Ki-Hyung Park - Senior Research Assistant

Savannah Wolf - Barriers Coordinator

[Email]: Gene.Lutz@uni.edu

[Bio]: Dr. Lutz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), and has been Director of the Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR) at UNI since 1988.  He is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health.  He holds a PhD in Sociology from Iowa State University. Dr. Lutz has been the Principal Investigator for over 70 studies of public health and other topics, and the administrator for scores of additional studies. 

[Email]:Mary.Losch@uni.edu

[Bio]: Dr. Losch is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), and has been Assistant Director of the Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR) at UNI since 1998. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Iowa.  Dr. Losch has been the Principal Investigator for numerous grants, contracts and investigations of public policy, public health and other topics.

[Email]:Mel.Gonnerman@uni.edu

[Bio]: Mel Gonnerman is the Senior Research Methodologist at the CSBR. He received his PhD in psychology from Northern Illinois University. At the CSBR, he has been involved with survey development, data management, statistical analysis, and report writing for more than 50 studies covering a wide range of topic areas.

[Email]:Disa.Cornish@uni.edu

[Bio]: Disa Cornish is the Program Evaluator at the CSBR, and has held this position since January of 2008. Her work at the CSBR includes formative, process, and summative evaluation research, instrument development, project coordination, and reporting. Ms. Cornish holds a MS degree in community and behavioral health from the University of Iowa College of Public Health. She is completing a PhD in Health Education and Health Promotion through the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health.

[Email]:Sharon.Cory@uni.edu

[Bio]: Sharon Cory performs a variety of administrative and accounting functions in the Center for Social and Behavioral Research.  She came to the CSBR in 1997 after spending 8 years assisting with the UNI Overseas Placement Fair for Educators.

[Email]:Thomas.Turner@uni.edu

[Bio]: Since graduating from UNI in 1994, with a BA in Computer Science, Tom Turner has been responsible for all aspects of technology at the CSBR, from maintaining the network servers and PC workstations to coding programs in Ci3, C/C++, ECMAScript, and SPSS.

[Email]:MJ.Crew@uni.edu

[Bio]: Mary Jane Crew joined the Center as Interviewer Supervisor in January of 1993 and has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Northern Iowa.  She hires and trains all telephone interviewers and supervises the management of the telephone data collection lab.  Ms. Crew ensures that data collection meets established standards, monitors the progress of projects, and achieves project deadlines.  Additionally, Ms. Crew consults and assists in questionnaire development and debugs Ci3 questionnaire programming.

[Email]:Rod.Muilenburg@uni.edu

[Bio]: Rod graduated with a BLS from UNI in 2000.  As Assistant Interviewer Supervisor he assists in the coordination and supervision of the day-to-day activities in the telephone interviewing lab.  He oversees WinCATI operations and programs questionnaires in Ci3. Rod is also the Project Coordinator for the Iowa Gambling Treatment Outcomes System.

[Email]:Ki.Park@uni.edu

[Bio]: Ki H. Park is a senior graduate assistant at the Center for Social and Behavioral Research (CSBR) at UNI since 2004. He is originally from South Korea, and also lived and worked in Peru. He holds a MA in Community Health from University of Northern Iowa, and is working on his second masters degree in Sociology at UNI. He focuses his studies on health disparities and social inequality. His current research in sociology is a cross-national study in attitudes toward immigration.  He is mainly responsible for conducting statistical analyses and preparing reports.

[Email]:sdw1307@uni.edu

[Bio]: Savannah Wolf is a senior psychology major and criminology minor at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the project coordinator for the Barriers to Prenatal Care Project at the CSBR. Savannah sends surveys to more than 80 Iowa hospitals for new mothers to complete and upon return, she sorts and analyzes data for the final report the Iowa Department of Public Health puts out every July. Savannah has been with the CSBR since summer of '06.