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Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development and a Kellogg Professor in Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana. She received her Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Tulane University in 1994. Her research interests focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, and she has contributed chapters to several books intended to enhance teaching preparation. She is a co-author of the textbook, Psychology Applied to Modern Life, now in its 12th Edition. Dr. Hammer is a past-president of Psi Chi (the International Honor Society in Psychology), a past-treasurer of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and served as Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement Psychology. Her work in the Center includes organizing pedagogical workshops and faculty development initiatives. She, her husband, and their two dogs work and play in New Orleans, Louisiana.