Nickki Pearce Dawes joined the Lasell University community in July as Director of the Center for Community-Based Learning and Internship Programs, as well as an associate professor of psychology. Pearce Dawes earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Jackson State University, and her MA and PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pearce Dawes arrived at Lasell from a recent appointment at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she was a senior research fellow in the Center for Social Development and Education, as well as an assistant professor of psychology.