Scrapbook & Recent Events
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Dr. Richard I. Evans (pictured to the left), Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Director of the Social Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Research Group, and Director of the Social Psychology Program at the University of Houston was a visitor to our campus in early April. Dr. Evans came to our campus as a Visiting Scholar of the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Studies. While on campus, Professor Evans spoke to Dr. Gottwald's P459: History and Systems classes on two occasions. In addition to his personal insights and observations about historical figures and theoretical systems in psychology, Dr. Evans showed interviews he had made with noted psychologists B.F. Skinner and Erich Fromm. These films are part of an outstanding and invaluable series of such taped interviews Dr. Evans conducted with a large number of eminent psychologists. In addition to these class presentations, Dr. Evans presented a public lecture that reflected on his research on prevention, specifically addressing "Preventing Substance Abuse in Children and Adolescents: What Do We Really Know?" |
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 Tim Franz, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Scarborough, Ph.D. |
Departures: Dr. Timothy M. Franz, will return to his home state of New York for next Fall to join the faculty of St. John Fisher College in Rochester. Tim's contributions to our graduate and undergraduate students and programs will be sorely missed. We will certainly also miss his hard work on our behalf, but we will especially miss his warm and friendly demeanor. We wish him the best in his new appointment and look forward to the accomplishments that will surely follow him there. Dr. Paul Schnur, Chair of the Department of Psychology for the past 7 years, will step down from his position and take a position as a Health Scientist Administrator with the National Institute of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland. We extend our heartfelt appreciation for the outstanding efforts of Dr. Schnur as our department chairperson. His inclusive and intelligent leadership will be fondly remembered and missed. We wish him the best in his new position. Good luck, Tim and Paul! Stay in touch! Retirement: Dr. Elizabeth Scarborough, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will retire at the end of the current academic year. Dr. Scarborough has served admirably as the Dean of our College for the past 9 years. She is a well-respected historian of psychology, particularly of the history of women in psychology. We will miss her leadership as Dean as well as her friendship. Best wishes, Elizabeth! |
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Arrivals: Catherine Borshuk, Ph.D., has accepted our invitation to join the faculty as an assistant professor beginning with the Fall 2000 semester. Dr. Borschuk, a social psychologist, joins us from her graduate training program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests focuses on the study of social identity groups, community activism, and group conflict. More details will follow in our next departmental newsletter. |
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WAY TO GO!!! |
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Faculty Publications that have appeared since January 2000 include: Sedlitz, L., Fujita, Frank, & Duberstein, P. R. (2000). Emotional experience over time and self-reported depressive symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 447-460. Maris, R. W., Canetto, S. S., McIntosh, John L., & Silverman, M. M. (Eds.). (2000). Review of Suicidology, 2000. New York: Guilford. ISBN 1-57230-503-7 (282 pages) McIntosh, John L. (2000). Epidemiology of adolescent suicide in the United States. In R. W. Maris, S. S. Canetto, J. L. McIntosh, & M. M. Silverman (Eds.), Review of Suicidology, 2000 (pp. 3-33). New York: Guilford. ISBN 1-57230-503-7
Carolyn Schult and Laura Talcott presented a paper at the annual Conference on Human Development in Memphis, TN, in mid-April. John L. McIntosh presented 2 papers and served the last of a 3-year term as the Director of a full-day of sessions at the annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology in Los Angeles, CA, in mid-April. De Bryant presented a paper titled"Youth Acting Out: Creating Personal and Collective Efficacy" at the Fourth North American Conference on The Learning Paradigm. The conference was held at Palomar College in San Diego, CA, from 15-18 March. |
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Robin Warrell recently received an award to support her travel to a professional conference from Indiana State University. John Hundley had a paper selected for presentation at the Midwest Academy of Management meeting. John presented the paper at the meeting which took place in Chicago from March 31 to April 1. The paper title was "Path Analysis of a University's Professional Staff Pay." |
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Frank Fujita who was recently promoted to Associate Professor and received tenure!!!! |
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McIntosh Receives Campus' Highest Service, Research Awards On April 7, Dr. John McIntosh was announced as the 16th annual IUSB Eldon Lundquist Faculty Fellow. At the same announcement, Dr. McIntosh was also named the 2nd annual IUSB Distinguished Research Award recipient. The Lundquist Fellow is named in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service to the Michiana community, while the Distinguished Research Award is given to a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in academic research. Congratulations to Dr. McIntosh on the receipt of these major campus awards! Look for announcements about the award lectures Dr. McIntosh will give next Fall and Spring. |
John L. McIntosh, Ph.D. |
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Undergraduate accomplishments and graduate school acceptances: |
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Kate Kuroski, Michelle Gregory, and Kelly Kruk have been accepted into the Master of Social Work program here at IUSB. |
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Bhumi Bhavsar presented a paper entitled "Sense of Community Among Women at a Day Center" to the Undergraduate Research Conference at Butler University in Indianapolis on 14 April. |
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Published Undergraduates!! Congratulations to the following IUSB Undergraduate Psychology Majors whose advanced laboratory projects were recently published in the Undergraduate Research Journal : Fogle, Jacque. (2000). Acquaintance rape and the attribution of responsibility: The role of alcohol and individual differences. Undergraduate Research Journal, 3, 24-29. - This project was originally submitted for P429: Laboratory in Developmental Psychology, taught by Dr. McIntosh. - Lichtenbarger, Deborah M. (2000). The effects of similarity on altruism and its relationship to predicted versus actual helping behavior. Undergraduate Research Journal , 3, 46-51. - This project was orginally submitted for P421: Laboratory in Social Psychology and as an Honors thesis, taught by Dr. Franz. It is especially noteworthy that this paper was presented at the 1999 Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference, the 2000 IUSB Undergraduate Research Conference, and the 2000 Midwestern Psychological Association annual conference. A SMART grant partially funded the research and a version of it has been submitted to a professional journal. - |
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Department Undergraduate Awards:
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The Spring 2000 semester poster session was held for students enrolled in advanced labs this semester on Monday, April 24 in the psychology hallway areas of Wiekamp. The well-attended, lively session provided an excellent overview of the research students conducted in the labs in Social Psychology and Community Psychology this semester under the direction of Drs. Franz and Bryant, respectively. Students and their faculty directors are to be commended on an informative session and the completion of independent research projects that represent a great deal of effort and time. You will find pictures of all the posters from the session at this linked location. Visit the pictures and see the variety of research being conducted by our undergraduate majors. |
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Undergraduate Student Accomplishments: Stacey Chicklon, a May 2000 graduate, has accepted a position as a Residential Assistant at Oaklawn. Lori Butchko received a SMART grant to support her undergraduate research project "Influx and Integration of Computer Technology in the Work Environment." In addition to congratulating Lori, a way to go should also go out to her faculty advisors, Tim Franz of our own department and Dave Vollrath of B&E. |
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Graduate Student Accomplishments: Laura Talcott and Dawn Rouhselang have successfully proposed their Master's thesis projects. |
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Announcements Dr. John McIntosh began duties as Chair of the Department of Psychology on July 1. Dr. Frank Fujita began duties as Graduate Program Director of the Department of Psychology's Master of Arts in Applied Psychology Program on July 1. Congratulations to Dr. Julie Tillema who was with us last year as a Visiting Assistant Professor and will be with us again for the 2000-2001 academic year in the same capacity. Julie married George Hernandez in Wisconsin on May 27. George, also a psychologist, will be teaching two courses as an associate faculty member in the Fall. Our best wishes! Dr. Carolyn Schult is the proud mother of a newborn baby boy, Benjamin Schult Drain, born June 14. Congratulations to Carolyn and Maxwell, and welcome to Benjamin! Dr. Schult will be on leave in the Fall. Dr. Tim Franz was quoted in the June 27, 2000 edition of USA Today. The quote appeared in an article titled "Companies rethink causal clothes: Dressing down brings slacking off, some CEOs say," and noted research being done here at IUSB on the relationship of casual dress to morale and productivity. |
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If you have accomplishments or other events you would like to see included here, please forward them to the department or to Dr. McIntosh. |
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