27 Facts About Dewey Cornell

Dewey G Cornell is an American forensic clinical psychologist known for his research on youth violence and school safety.

Dewey Cornell is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia, where he holds the Virgil Ward Chair in Education.

Dewey Cornell is the director of the University of Virginia's Virginia Youth Violence Project, as well as a faculty associate at the university's Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy.

Dewey Cornell is the principal author of the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines, which is widely used for threat assessment in schools in the United States and Canada.

Dewey Cornell studied clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, earning his MA in 1979 and Ph.

Dewey Cornell completed two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.

Dewey Cornell was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991 and Full Professor in 1999.

Dewey Cornell testified on the prevention of youth violence at Congressional briefings or hearings in 1994, following the Columbine High School shooting in 1999,2001,2007, and 2013.

Dewey Cornell developed recommended practices for Virginia's institutions of higher education and led the initial statewide training program.

Dewey Cornell served on the Virginia Governor's Task Force on School and Campus Safety in 2013, which led to legislation making Virginia the first state to require K-12 schools to use threat assessment teams.

Dewey Cornell testified at separate congressional briefings on school violence on March 20 and March 23,2018, following the high school shooting in Parkland, FL.

Dewey Cornell has testified as an expert witness for numerous court cases involving violent crimes in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Dewey Cornell served on the expert panel of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and contributed to their 2000 report recommending the use of behavioral threat assessment in K-12 schools.

Dewey Cornell served on various advisory boards and panels, including the NCAVC Research Advisory Board, the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, the APA Panel on Gun Violence, the AERA Task Force on Bullying Prevention, the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, and committees focused on school security, discipline reform, and mental health initiatives.

Dewey Cornell contributed to an interdisciplinary statement on the prevention of gun violence with an 8-point plan.

Dewey Cornell's research has been funded by three agencies of the US Department of Justice: the National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Dewey Cornell has been funded by the US Department of Education, the Open Society Foundations, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Department of Health, and others.

Dewey Cornell has authored more than 300 publications in psychology and education, including peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, book chapters, and technical reports.

Dewey Cornell's books include Juvenile Homicide, School Violence: Fears Versus Facts, and Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines, 2nd Edition.

Since 1998, Dewey Cornell's research has shown that bullying increases dropout rates and lowers test scores.

In 2024, Dewey Cornell co-authored the School Threat Assessment Toolkit to guide schools in implementing BTAM.

Early in his career, Dewey Cornell studied family dynamics in gifted children, finding that labeling a child as gifted often led to adjustment problems.

Dewey Cornell's work showed that gifted students generally had few adjustment problems, though early college entrants faced higher depression rates.

Dewey Cornell co-authored Recommended Practices in Gifted Education, the first evidence-based guide for gifted programs.

Dewey Cornell held the Curry Memorial Chair in Education from 2002 to 2005, the Linda Bunker Chair in Education from 2005 to 2020, and the Virgil Ward Chair in Education since 2020.

Dewey Cornell received the Distinguished Research Award from the Counseling and Development Division of the American Educational Research Association in 2011,2013,2016, and 2021.

Dewey Cornell received the Promise Champion award from the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation in 2015 for his development of the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines as a school violence prevention program.