Faculty

Professor Abimbola Asojo has led workshops and summer camps since 2013 to expose underrepresented K-12 students to design and create pathways to the profession. Her scholarship and engagement focuses on promoting and advancing racial/ethnic diversity in design.

Studies involved with: Creativity Camp

Dr. Cullen (she/her) is an investigator for the Creativity Camp Study and an Associate Professor and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. Dr. Cullen's research focuses on adolescent depression and related problems such as self-injury.

Studies involved with: Imagination Studio, Creativity and Well-being Course, Imagination Central, Creativity Camp, Becoming Artists

Mark is an assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and is the statistician for the project "Six marathons done, and many more to go." Mark’s Past Research

Studies involved with: Creativity Camp

Dr. Lee Friederich is a co-PI for the Creativity and Wellbeing study between Akita International University and UMN. Her expertise is in literature and creative writing. She teaches at Akita International University in Japan.

Studies Involved With: Creativity and Well-Being Course in Akita, Japan

Dr. Klimes-Dougan is an investigator for the Creativity Camp Study and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Klimes-Dougan's research focuses on the stress system, considering risk and protective factors for distress, depression and despair in adolescents.  

Studies involved with: Imagination Studio, Creativity and Well-being Course, Imagination Central, Creativity Camp, Becoming Artists

Wilma is a psychology professor who studies, teaches, and writes about mental flexibility, memory, and creativity. She is developing the different measures of creative thinking and the "mental agility warm-ups."

"How does the human mind innovate and create using past and present knowledge?"

Studies involved with: Imagination Central, Creativity Camp

Angie Mejia is an assistant professor and civic engagement scholar at the University of Minnesota Rochester. She is helping with the qualitative aspects of this study.

Studies involved with: Creativity Camp

Bryon Mueller is a medical physicist with research interest in applying novel magnetic resonance imaging methods to help understand the structural and functional differences of the brains of clinical populations. Within the University of Minnesota, he is a member of the 3T operations committee, which sets policy for use of the 3T systems at CMRR, and responsible for quality assurance monitoring of the 3T systems at CMRR.

Studies involved with: Creativity Camp, Imagination Central

An engineer turned artist turned museum curator, Boris Oicherman is invested in context-specific collaborative art. As the Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota, he established a new program of creative engagement with research across disciplines and cultures, realizing the potential of artists to become drivers of radically diverse knowledge in academia.

Studies involved with: Creativity Camp

"Creativity is a space inside us. Does this work?"

Studies involved with: Imagination Studio, Creativity and Well-being Course, Imagination Central, Creativity Camp

Peng is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator. He is interested in creating healing spaces through collective art-making.

Studies involved with: Imagination Studio, Imagination Central, Creativity Camp