I successfully defended my dissertation, "Designing Deeply Engaging Online Communities for Adolescents." Abstract available here. My submission, "Supporting Reflective Thinking by Adolescents on Educational Issues in a Media-Rich Online Community" was accepted to the 2010 Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA). This is my first publication with a student of mine (Maggie Patterson, Hood '10). This work will be presented as a poster in March in Philadelphia.