Dan Woltz

While a graduate student at Stanford University, Dr. Woltz worked primarily with Dr. Richard Snow on the Aptitude Research Project funded by the Office of Naval Research. Following his graduate work and prior to coming to the University of Utah, Dan worked for five years conducting basic research on cognitive abilities and learning processes at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. He has received external funding for his research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Draper Laboratories, and his work has been published in publications such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, Journal of Memory and Language, and Memory & Cognition.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University.