- National Conference on College Student Grief

Dr. Servaty-Seib is a member of the Counseling and Development Department at Purdue University. She is the co-editor (with Deborah J. Taub) of Assisting Bereaved College Students: New Directions for Student Services, No. 121 and, most recently, the co-author (also with Taub) of Bereavement and College Students: The Role of Counseling Psychology in the April 2010 issue of The Counseling Psychologist.

Dr. Balk is a member of the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department at Brooklyn College. Dr. Balk has worked as a program evaluator and director of research in two community mental health centers in Arizona and taught college students for 30 years. His research interests have focused primarily on bereavement and adolescents, and recently in bereavement among college students. He is the co-author (with Charles Corr) of Children’s Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping, Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping, and  Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement.