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Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco, Director and Five College Professor of Italian

Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College. Professor Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco is the founding director of the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. She received her Ph.D. in 1988 and held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Holyoke College before assuming the Five College position in 1990. She is currently past president of the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP) and editor of the NASILP Journal. In addition, she continues to explore ways of incorporating technology into language instruction. She has been project director for materials development grants received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The U.S. Department of Education, The National Security Education Program, The Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, The Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, The Booth Ferris Foundation, The New England Colleges Fund, and The Korea Research Foundation.

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Amy Wordelman, Associate Director and Technology Coordinator

Ph.D. Princeton University. Ms. Wordelman oversees the Center's everyday operations, coordinates the Supervised Independent and Mentored Language Programs, and serves as technology director and project manager for the Center's multimedia development projects--including LangMedia: The Five College Foreign Language Media Archive. She also coordinates the teams of Five College international students who work with the Supervised Independent Language Program and the LangMedia website. Current projects involve digitization and editing of video and audio for web distribution, development of templates for web-based language learning resources, pilot projects in videoconferencing, and constant searching for new and innovative resources for the less-commonly taught languages.

Margaret Malone, Bookkeeping and Special Projects

B.S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ms. Malone handles payroll and bookkeeping for the Center's many grant-funded projects and is the production coordinator for the NASILP Journal online. She is also an accountant for the University's College of Humanities and Fine Arts and a notary public. She designed the Center's t-shirts, played a major role in shepherding through our recent renovations, and facilitates numerous receptions, publicity brochures, and other details of Center life.

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