Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Fellowship Recipients
2001: Michael Mueller, University of Southern Mississippi
Michael Mueller was born in Florida and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After high school he joined the Army and served as an infantryman in the gulf war with the 2/11 th Armored Cavalry Regiment stationed in Bad Kissingen, Germany. Following his time in the Army, he received a B.A. in psychology from West Virginia University. He was honored as a two-time Academic All-American while serving as the captain of the West Virginia University ice hockey team in addition to completing an honor’s thesis in behavior analysis with Drs. David Schaal and Michael Perone.
After WVU, he served as a research assistant for Drs. Kathryn Saunders and Dean Williams at the Parsons Research Center at the University of Kansas. His formal graduate training began in 1997 at the University of Southern Mississippi’s School Psychology Program in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Each faculty member in the school psychology program at USM, Drs. Ron Edwards, Joe Olmi, Daniel Tingstrom, Susan Wilczynski, and Heather Sterling-Turner, provided wonderful support, mentoring, and guidance during his four years in the program.
At USM his research interests included stimulus control, recombinative generalization as a method for teaching pre-reading children basic reading skills, classroom management strategies, functional assessment and analysis of problem behavior in classroom and clinical settings, problem behaviors maintained by negative reinforcement, generalization of behavioral interventions from clinic to classroom settings, and behavioral consultation in school settings to improve teachers’ implementation of behavioral interventions. From this research, he has had articles published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, and Proven Practice: Prevention and Remediation Solutions for Schools.
Mueller is beginning a pre-doctoral internship at the Marcus Behavior Center in Atlanta, Georgia through the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute. During internship, Drs. Wayne Fisher and Cathleen Piazza will supervise him in the treatment of severe problem behavior and feeding problems in children. His future goals are to continue to conduct behavior analytic and applied behavior analytic research with both typically developing and developmentally delayed children with severe behavior problems.
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