Mendoza School of Business


Jennifer Waddell

Assistant Department Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the IT, Analytics, and Operations Department, Teaching Professor
IT, Analytics, and Operations
 574-631-9356
  330 Mendoza College of Business
  • Biography
  • Background
  • Publications
  • Books
  • Awards

Jennifer Waddell has a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. She studied both social psychology and quantitative methodology, and she primarily teaches statistical methods and applications at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Waddell is also the ITAO assistant department chair and the director of undergraduate studies.

Education
Ph D, University of Notre Dame
MA, University of Notre Dame
BA, Muhlenberg College

Areas of Expertise
Quantitative Methodology
Social Psychology
Gender and Interpersonal Interactions
Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness

"Spatiotemporal Symmetry and Multifractal Structure of Head Movements during Dyadic Conversation", (With Kathleen Ashenfelter, Steven Boker, Nikolai Vitanov), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 2009

"Windowed Cross-Correlation and Peak Picking for the Analysis of Variability in the Association Between Behavioral Time Series", (With Steven Boker, Minquan Xu, K King), Psychological Methods, 7, 2002

"Symmetry Building and Symmetry Breaking in Synchronized Movement", (With Steven Boker), Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, 2003

Award
"Joe and Gina Prochaska Family Teaching Award", Joe and Gina Prochaska Family and Mendoza College of Business, 2022

"Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching", University of Notre Dame, 2018