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MIRON, MURRAY S., Professor and Division Director of Psycholinguistics, Syracuse University Education Northwestern University - B.S., 1954 University of Iltinois M.S., 1956 Ph.D., 1960 Experience Syracuse University 1965-date University of Illinois 1954-1965 Northwestern University 1950-1954 Dr. Miron received his B.S. in psychology from Northwestern, and completed his advanced degrees at the University of I}linois in Ex- perimenta? Phonetics, Experimental Psychology and Psycholinguistics. At Illinois, he was a Research Assistant to Dr. Grant Fairbanks, and then Research Associate at its Institute of Communications Research and Instructor in the Department of Psychology. He was named Assis- tant Professor of Psychology as well as Linguistics in 1960 and con- Currently was Research Assistant Professor of Communications Research. He came to Syracuse as Associate Professor in 1965 and was appointed to his present position as Professor and Division Director of Psycho- linguistics in 1970. He also directs the honors program in psychology with graduate faculty appointments in Systems and Information Sciences and the Maxwell School of Public Policy. DOr. Miron's sponsored research for which he was principal investt- gator has included: investigations of textual variables in information processing for the Rome Air Development Center, U.S. Air Force; investi- . gations of the linguistic competence of children for the office of Economic Opportunity; investigations in comparative psycholinguistics for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Men- tal Health; aural coding in language processing for the National In- Stitute of Child Health and Human Development; a methodology for intell- igence analysis and evaluation for the United States Army Behavioral Research Labs; language instruction research for the Defense Language Institute; the development of risk evaluation measurements for the Department of the Army (Tactical C and D) and psychiatric profiling for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other government agenctes in various classified areas. AAS 9 00 (972 . -. we aan ae re le ee "