Wendy Chia-Smith, Ph.D.

Dr. Yun-Dih (Wendy) Chia-Smith is an instructor in the Department of Teacher Education, where she has been teaching since 2012. Dr. Chia-Smith received her B.S. in Psychology from National Chengchi University, Taiwan in 1991, and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany in 2004.  She taught at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis from 2007-2012. Dr. Chia-Smith’s research interests span from educational psychology, child development , science of learning, sport psychology and coach education. Her recent study on “The developmental psychobiosocial states on competitive badminton players” was rewarded a research grant from Badminton World Federation in 2017.