GENERAL FACULTY AND STUDENT NEWS/INFORMATION:

Rank and Tenure Updates:
Dr. Bryan Burnham has been awarded tenure;
Dr. Christie Karpiak was recently granted promotion to Full Professor; and
Dr. Jessica Nolan has received a promotion in rank to Associate Professor.

Ms. Martha Triano, Psychology/Philosophy major, has been awarded the 2013 President's Fellowship for Summer Research Program.  Martha will be working with Dr. Jessica Nolan on her proposal titled Heuristics and Social Norms: A Potential Interaction in Recycling Behavior.  (updated 5/2/13)

Ms. Allyson Kiss, Psychology major, was recently selected in a nationwide competition to be one of a small group (out of hundreds of applicants) to attend the national convention of the American Educational Research Association meeting in San Francisco. The program, a three day event entitled AERA Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop, introduced promising undergraduate researchers who are headed to graduate school to a host of prominent researchers and the research process.  (updated 5/2/13)

Dr. John C. Norcross recently published his acclaimed self-help book, Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing your Goals and Resolutions (Simon & Schuster, www.Changeologybook.com), as well as new editions of his professional texts, Psychotherapy Relationships that Work and Self-Help that Works (both by Oxford University Press).  (updated 2/1/2013)