Mark Lipsey is the Director of the Peabody Research Institute. His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis). The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research.

Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association's Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research's Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.

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Dale Farran is the Senior Associate Director at the Peabody Research Institute. She is also a Professor in the Departments of Teaching and Learning and Psychology and Human Development, and a Senior Fellow of the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Study of Human Development. Prior to this appointment she was a professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she also served as chair from 1987 to 1995.

Dr. Farran has been involved in research and intervention for high risk children and youth for all of her professional career. Her research areas include early intervention for children at risk for school failure due to poverty and/or disabilities; transition to school; observational methodologies; and early language and mathematics development. She has conducted research at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, at the University of Hawaii and the Child Development program for Kamehameha Schools, and at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Professor Farran is the editor of two books both dealing with risk and poverty, the author of more than 80 journal articles and book chapters, and a regular presenter at national conferences.

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