High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael A. O`Donnell (born June 17, 1956, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an author, researcher, and international lecturer with a Ph.D. from Kansas State University and is best known for his Adolescent Wellness Research Project, co-conducted with family strengths scholar Nick Stinnett, Ph.D., a professor with the University of Alabama. Their research on Adolescent Wellness was published in the book Good Kids (Doubleday 1995) and was presented before the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, in 1995. The United Nations also published their research in the UN Directory of International Year of the Family Research Projects in the summer of 1995.