Marion Underwood

Marion K. Underwood is an American psychologist and incoming Provost for George Mason University as well as former provost and executive vice president of Colorado State University. She formerly served as dean of Purdue University's College of Health and Human Sciences, a position she assumed on August 1, 2018. She is a researcher in social aggression and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. From 1998 to 2018, she had various roles at the University of Texas at Dallas. From 2015 to 2018, she served as dean of graduate studies and associate provost.

BlackBerry project As part of a longitudinal study, Underwood provided free BlackBerrys to ninth-graders in exchange for permission to study the teens' text messages. On average, each student sent 1,321 text messages per month (about 43 per day). Underwood and her colleagues found that less than 2% of text messages had antisocial content (such as rule-breaking, drug use, physical aggression, or property crimes.) Many of the text messages included teens "building each other up" and providing support.

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