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Rick Tanney
Location: Korea
Mr. Tanney was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1948 and has also lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Germany, Texas, and Maine. He is a retired US Army Behavioral Sciences Non-Commissioned Officer and holds several degrees including: a BA in English from The Ohio State University, a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Counseling and Psychology from Ashland Theological Seminary (Ashland University), and an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. Currently, Mr. Tanney is working on a dissertation on the effect of familiarity factors on the perception of relative nearness in map space to complete a PhD in Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine. His extensive teaching experience includes having taught computer science since 1985 and philosophy since 1997. Mr. Tanney joined UMUC Asia in the summer of 2010 teaching in Korea.