Researcher, Research, Revamped
Linda Silka’s transformation from a conventional social and community psychologist into the interdisciplinary, bridge-building and problem-solving role she fills at the Mitchell Center began in 1994 at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
“I started out doing straight social psychology research and teaching first-year general psychology students at UMass Lowell,” Silka says. “That’s all I knew how to do. I’d done four years of graduate school studying social psychology and then only talked to other people in my small research group.”