Atlantic University Appoints New Director of Academic Affairs

The Executive Director and CEO of the Edgar Cayce work, Kevin Todeschi, announced today that, due to the generosity of Don de Laski and the de Laski Family Foundation, Atlantic University (AU) has appointed Nancy Zingrone as Academic Affairs Director for the university. She will be responsible for curriculum development, online education, the continuing education program, and faculty and staff oversight.

Nancy Zingrone and her husband Carlos Alvarado (who has been appointed A.U.'s Scholar in Residence) have Ph.D.’s in psychology from the University of Edinburgh, and both have extensive research and teaching experience with the University of Virginia, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (now Rhine Research Center), and the Parapsychological Foundation. In addition to their new roles at Atlantic University both Zingrone and Alvarado will join the university’s faculty, focusing on online education.

Here's some interesting material regarding Dr. Zingrone:

• To read Nancy's recent blog on the state of online parapsychological education, "The 21st Century and Learning: Web-based Education in Parapsychology,"  click here!

• The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education (The AZIRE) was founded to provide resources for researchers, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, therapists and counselors, teachers and students interested in seemingly psychic phenomena.

• To watch a Rhine Institute lecture by Drs. Alvarado and Zingrone on the subject of out of body experiences, click here!

• A complete resume, plus a list of Zingrone's publications, with live links to .pdfs, is available as part of her University of Virginia web page click here!

• To participate in the survey of Human Experiences, click here!