Dr. Jeremiah M. Faries, Professor of Psychology at the Bermuda College , received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Princeton University.  His research area for dissertation work was on Memory theory and examined both human memory and computer models of memory.  He worked for 6 years at Northwestern University with an academic tenure-track appointment in the Department of Psychology and a minor cross appointment in the School of Education and Social Policy (Learning Sciences Division).  He taught courses in subjects ranging from Statistics and Experimental Design, Human Learning, to Artificial Intelligence programming.  At that time he was also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Learning Sciences, a cross-disciplinary group investigating the use of leading edge technology for educational and corporate training purposes.  At the Bermuda College since 1996, he served as Department Chair of the Social Sciences from 1997 to 2001. 

       His list of research projects include a) studies of how students use and remember pedagogical examples in domains such as calculus, computer programming, statistics, and even business strategy (collaboration with Brian J. Reiser)  b) an investigation into the strategies used to formulate and support political arguments, c) investigations of effective techniques for child and adult language learning, d) study on the comprehension of metaphor, e) studies of how people remember and misremember ordinary life events (collaboration with James Lampinen)  and f) a study to train a robot to build a wall by implementing memory strategies that are used by human beings instead of a typical computer memory strategy(collaboration with Paul R. Cooper.  He has presented these findings at several international conferences in North America and Europe.