Prior to coming to UVa, Daniel Berch served as Associate Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, where he also directed the Program in Mathematics and Science Cognition and Learning. Berch initially came to the Washington, DC area in 1997 as an SRCD/AAAS Executive Branch Science Policy Fellow. He was subsequently appointed Senior Research Associate at the U. S. Department of Education, advising the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement on technical and policy matters pertaining to educational research. In his earlier academic career, Berch was Director of Research for the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, where he also chaired the University’s Institutional Review Board and served as Research Coordinator for the University Affiliated Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders. Among other honors, Berch has received the NIH Award of Merit, was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Experimental Psychology, served as an ex officio member of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel, and is a member of the National Center for Learning Disabilities Professional Advisory Board.