She teaches in both graduate and undergraduate programs. Dr. Register’s primary research goal is to promote healthy aging and foster older adults’ capacity to live happy, healthy, and independent lives. She has presented nationally on her successes with online courses. Vera Polyakova-Norwood is the Director of Online Learning in the College of Nursing, where she assists faculty with design, development, implementation and evaluation of online courses, modules and activities. She has led numerous workshops on technology-based teaching and learning for USC faculty and graduate students.