Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Department of Psychology Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia (804)

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1 Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Department of Psychology Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia (804) Education Graduate: Undergraduate: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A., Psychology Ph.D., 1981 Psychology Howard University, Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971 Comparative History Employment Dates: August, 1981 May, 2002; June Present Position: Professor of Psychology (Retired ) Department Chair June, 2005 June, 2011 Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia Funded Projects Principal Investigator, Broadening Participation Grant, HRD Award total: $400, Co-Principal Investigator, Broadening Participation Grant, HRD Award total: $349, Principal Investigator, Broadening Participation Grant, HRD Award total: $411, Principal Investigator, REESE Grant, DRL Award total: $989,

2 Principal Investigator, Educational Research Grant, HRD Award total: $1,062, Project Director, Bridges to the Future Project Grant, 2R25GM National Institutes of Health Award total: $600, Project Co-Director, Computer-Based Instructional Technologies Project, USE Award Total: $900, Project Director, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grant U.S. Department of Education Award total: $160, Selected Presentations and Publications Hill, O., Serpell, Z. and Faison, M. (In Press). The efficacy of the LearningRx cognitive training program: Modality and transfer effects. Journal of Experimental Education. Hill, O., Serpell, Z. & Faison, M. (In Press). Improving minority student mathematics performance through cognitive training. In L.A. Flowers, J. Moore, and L. O. Flowers (Eds.), The Evolution of Learning: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, University Press of America. Talley, C., Fife, J., Harris, T., & Hill, O. (2015). Increasing achievement by strengthening resilience: An ecologically-based intervention for African American students. In L. Drakeford, Ed., The Race Controversy in American Education, Praeger Publishing. Clark, V., Boyd-Starke, K., Hill, O., & Serpell, Z. (2013). The effects of cognitive skills and BMI on cardiovascular reactivity to stress. Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders, 2, Hill, O. (2012). Cognitive skills and psychosocial factors as predictors of math performance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Boyd, K., Hill, O., Fife, J. & Whittington, M. (2011). Religiosity and HIV risk behaviors in African American college students, Psychological Reports, 108,

3 Faison, M., Serpell, Z., Ahluwalia, V., Kraft, K., Sheybani, E., Javidi, G., & Hill, O., (2011). Correlations between cortical recruitment during an n-back task and cognitive performance. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. Clark, V. & Hill, O. (2009), Cardiovascular reactivity to racist stressors in African American college students, Ethnicity & Disease, 19, 2-6. Hill, O. & Serpell, Z. (2009). Assessing the impact of cognitive training on the mathematics performance of minority students. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. Ma, L., Sherstyuk, K., Dowling, M., and Hill, O. (2002). Altruism and voluntary provision of public goods. Economics Bulletin, 3, 1-8. Hill, O. W., Block, R. A., & Buggie, S. E. (2000). Culture and beliefs about time: Comparisons among Black Americans, Black Africans, and White Americans. Journal of Psychology, 134, Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1998). Childhood fantasy, creativity and an internal epistemic style. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 13, Hill, O. and Huntley, L. (1998). The internal-external dimension of epistemic and personality factors and a measure of achievement motivation. Psychological Reports, 82, Hill, O. (1996). The internal/external dimension in psychoepistemic orientation and measures of ability. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82, Hill, O. and Moadab, M. (1995). Spatial information and temporal representation in memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1994). Academic procrastination among African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 75, Hill, O. (1993). Altered states of consciousness. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Long-term memory: Nature, contents and formation. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Sources of experimental bias. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Statistical significance tests. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

4 Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1993). The personality typology of black college students: Evidence for a characteristic cognitive style? Psychological Reports, 72, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). The psychoepistemological profile of African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 72, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). Spatial coding of temporal order information in short-term memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1992). Factor structure of beliefs about time among African-American college students. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, Hill, O. (1990). Rethinking the "significance" of the rejected null hypothesis. American Psychologist, 45(5), Hill, O., Pettus, W. and Hedin, B. (1990) Three studies of factors affecting the attitudes of blacks and females toward the pursuit of science and science-related careers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(4), Hill, O. (1987). Intuition: Inferential heuristic or epistemic mode? Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 7(2), Hill, O. (1986). Further implications of anomalous data for scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 41(10), Professional Activities Board Member, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Board Member, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Commission Member, Virginia Council on Human Resources, Member, Scientific Review Panel, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Member, Scientific Review Panels,, Present Editorial Board: Mindfullness Consulting Reader: Psychological Reports Perceptual and Motor Skills Psychological Bulletin Journal of Child and Family Studies Professional Affiliations American Association for the Advancement of Science Association for Psychological Science

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