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Spencer
Carroll, M.M.
XRF Laboratory manager and studies coordinator |
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Spencer
administered, coordinated and implemented many XRF Laboratory research
activities, including project budgets, personnel and schedules. As
Projects Coordinator, she also recruited study participants and handled all
the required correspondence and the medically and legally required
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grants management area, Ms. Carroll implemented administrative systems
for accurate, timely and standardized production and filing of reports,
grants and publications and tracks funding opportunities of interest to
the Laboratory. She assessed and optimized administrative systems
concerning space, utilities, information systems, equipment purchases etc.
She prepared scientific correspondence and documents in connection with
all projects, both current and under development, for internal and
external presentation and publication. This included some writing and
considerable editing.
Ms. Carroll was also a KXRF operator. In that
capacity, she performed human measurements, in vivo and
experimental spectral fitting, data reduction and data analysis. For
many studies she also performed neuropsychological testing (e.g., Simple
Reaction Time, Finger Tapping, Hand-Eye Coordination, Pattern
Comparison, Pattern Memory and Symbol-Digit tests, pinch- and
grip-strength testing, pegboard and block pattern tests), phlebotomy and
laboratory blood-handling protocols. Ms. Carroll maintained, washed and
drove the Laboratory’s 3/4-ton Chevy pickup and 28’ trailer for
off-site screenings.
Ms. Carroll’s education has been in music and
English at Smith College, in medieval music at the Schola Cantorum of
Basle, Suisse, and in Early Music Performance Practices at The New
England Conservatory of Music, where she taught for several years before
moving to New York City. Her management and organizational training were
developed largely at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she
was Assistant to the Director, Nicholas A. Ashford, Ph.D., of the Center
for Policy Alternatives. |
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