Executive Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln

Ellen Weissinger is Executive Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. A professor of educational psychology, she is a recognized authority on intrinsic motivation and on the antecedents and consequences of boredom. She has served as editor of the Journal of Leisure Research, the primary research journal in her field. She has also specialized in psychometrics and published three measurement instruments. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland. At Nebraska, she has also served as associate dean of Teachers College and associate director of the Buros Institute for Mental Measurements.