Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

Professor Náñez embodies his own guiding notion that faculty members should provide an “education of the heart,” to help students love their work, to work diligently, to become life-long learners and to give back to the communities in which they live. Professor Náñez is a professor of psychology in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and executive director of community outreach at ASU. A cognitive neuroscientist, Professor Náñez pursues research in visual perception and neuronal organization. As executive director of community outreach, he also creates and implements new strategies to advance the university's student outreach agenda, a role that draws on his many years successfully engaging students in his classes and presenting recruiting programs for Hispanic and first-generation students in the community.