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UCF’s Marriage and Family Research Institute named Naomi Wheeler as its new executive director this month. Wheeler takes over from Andrew Daire, who co-founded the institute and has accepted a new position as the associate dean for research in the College of Education at the University of Houston. The institute was created in 2003 to facilitate the development of research…