Drake University
Department of Psychology
Des Moines, IA 50311-4505
Telephone: (515) 271-3929
FAX: (515) 271-1925
E-mail: william.klipec@drake.edu
 

Education

B.A., Psychology-Zoology, Kent State University, 1967

M.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1970

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Arizona, 1974

 
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Psychology, Drake University, 1978-Present

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Drake University, 1974-1978

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, 1981-1985

Department Chair, Drake University, 1979-1981

Instructor, Milwaukee Technical College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970

Instructor, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1970-1974

Chairman, Science Department, Waterloo Local Schools, Atwater, Ohio, 1967-1969

 
Awards, Honors and Peer Related Activities

National Institute of Mental Health, Predoctoral Research Fellowship (# FO 1 MH52785-02, $10,400) 1972-1974

Drake University Graduate Research Council Grant, ($1,000) 1976-1977

Chaired an Ad Hoc Committee which generated a funded National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant ($750,000 with university matching funds) 1983

National Science Foundation Equipment Grant to establish a microcomputer laboratory in the Psychology Department at Drake University (# CSI08552168, $53,044) 1985

Curriculum Development Grant to develop Macintosh(TM) lab exercises for the introductory statistics lab. ($1,000) 1988

Drake University Faculty Research Grant to Support investigation of the effects of prenatal exposure to fencamfamine, cocaine and amphetamine of the development of rat pups ($789) 1990

Drake University Faculty Research Grant to support research on the teratological effects of prenatal exposure to fencamfamine on rat pups($2,375) 1993

Sponsor of Drake Student Research Grant for Kurt Illig to study the effects of amphetamine and cocaine on self-stimulation in rats. ($1,500) 1993

 
Professional Affiliations

Midwestern Psychological Association

Sigma Xi

American Psychological Association

Association for Behavior Analysis

Iowa Academy of Science

American Association of Higher Education

Society for Neuroscience

 
Principal Courses Taught

Introductoryand Advanced Statistics

Theories of Learning

History of Psychology

Sexual Behavior

 
Research Interests

Neuroscience, psychopharmacology and teratology

Stimulus generalization, autoshaping, and learning theory

 
Scholarship Activity
1. Townsend, K.L., Rogers, L.W. and Klipec, W.D. (1993). Behavioral contrast and alternative response key availability. Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Meetings, Chicago

2. Cooper, D.C., Klipec, W.D., Illig, K.R., and Lawler, D. (1994). Separating reinforcing and locomotor effects of amphetamine administration in the nucleus accumbens on responding maintained by intracranial self-stimulation: The role of alpha-1 noradrenergic and D-1 dopaminergic receptors. Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Meetings, Atlanta

3. Koeltzow, T,E., Klipec, W.D., Cooper, D.C., Alpern, H., Illig, K.R. (1994). The effect of prazosin pretreatment on amphetamine induced locomotor behavior in mice. Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Meetings, Atlanta

4. Dobrzynski, J., Mach, K., and Klipec, W.D. (1995) The effects of amphetamine and cocaine on discrimination performance in a Y-maze using rats. Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis meetings, Washington D.C.

5. W.D. Klipec, W.D., Faux S., Huegel E., Young K., Miskimins J. and Corey C. (1997) Rat P-300 event-related potentials are a physiological correlate of conditioned reinforcement. Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Meetings, Chicago

6. Published Abstracts: Also Presented at Professional Meetings
Klipec, W.D., Lawler, D., Catlin, S., Wahling, C. and Illig, K.R. (1993) The effects of pre- and postnatal exposure to amphetamine , fencamfamine, and cocaine on maternal behavior and development in rat pups. Neuroscience Abstracts, 19, 3, 713.10

7. Koeltzow, T.E., Klipec, W.D., Cooper, D.C., and Illig, K.R. (1993). The effects of prenatal exposure to to fencamfamine and amphetamine on development in mice. The FASEB Journal, 7, 3, A253.

8. Klipec, W.D., Wahling, C., Lawler, D. and Catlin, S. (1994). The efficacy of a progressive fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement in separating motoric and reinforcing effects of ICSS. Neuroscience Abstracts, 20, 1, 149.6.

9. Klipec, W.D., Faux, S., Sauer, L., Corey, C., Miskimins, J., Heugel, E., and Lebada, S. (1996). A methodology for producing a P-200 evoked potential in rats which was eliminated be extinction and recovered during reacquisition of a discriminated operant response. Neuroscience Abstracts, 22, 2, 359.11.

10. Klipec. W.D., Dill-Devor, R.M. Devor E.J., and Miskimins, J. (1997). Amphetamine -Influenced Gene Expression In Rat Brain. Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 1, 204.6.

 
Research in Progress
Measuring P-300 evoked potentials in rats during ongoing auditory discrimination training.

Induced genetic changes as a function of acute and chronic exposure to stimulant drugs.

A parametric evaluation of the FRmax methodology for investigating ICSS and stimulant drug interaction with rate of responding in rats.