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Prof. of the week: Matthew Bowen

Matthew Bowen started teaching at the University this semester with Introduction to Child Psychology. At first, Bowen was wary of teaching such a large lecture class at the University since he said he prefers more intimate class sizes. But the opportunity of teaching at the University was a major incentive.

Before he came to Charlottesville, Bowen went to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and then he started his own private practice for child and adult neuropsychology.

Bowen's academic and professional careers not only include a stint as a member of the neurosurgery department's faculty at Stanford University's Medical School, but he also spent time as a director of a neuro-rehabilitation center for brain-injured children.

Bowen came to Charlottesville to take care of his mother, a well-known southern novelist, in 2000. His mother was the literary prot

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