We are so proud of Doug McDonald, who received the prestigious President’s Award during graduation 2012. The award is give
n to the graduating senior who has successfully overcome hardship through resolute determination and drive. Doug is pictured with his wife Laura (Levy) and his daughter Clarke Elizabeth.
Dr. Rebecca Singer received the Lindsey Apple Student Life Award for her involvement with students inside and outside of the classroom. Congratulations!
View pictures of the 2012 Senior Reception for graduating psychology majors as well as photos from previous years’ receptions. Good luck graduates—we will miss you!
Ashley Clayton, psychology major and 2009 graduate, recently published her first and second articles, entitled Going to the source: Creating a citizenship outcome measure by community-based participatory research methods and The Citizen Project Part II: Impact of a citizenship intervention on clinical and community outcomes for persons with mental illness and criminal justice involvement. She is currently working at Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine. She serves as a researcher with the Program for Recovery and Community Health. Read one (Clayton et al. article) or both (Rowe et al. article) of her articles and learn what a dendrogram is!
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Two psychology majors will complete GC’s Honors Program this year. Part of the program’s requirements include an honors thesis, which is defended during a poster session at the end of the spring semester. Katie Rapier’s thesis is entitled An essential teleology of hope, while Kristen Snyder’s thesis title is The nature of romantic relationships: Links to self-esteem and aggression. Congratulations to these two outstanding majors!
Thanks to GC alum Wes Hunt (pictured with undergraduates Destiny Cornell, Bruno Baumer, Seaton Stiles, Megan Landry, and Tyler Daniel), Louisville, for his April guest lecture to Dr. McKenzie’s Industrial/Organizational Psychology course. He discussed his undergraduate work at GC, where he double majored in Psychology and Economics; his graduate school experiences at EKU, where he earned his master’s degree in I/O psychology after completing a master’s thesis on organizational citizenship behavior and aggression; and his current work experiences as a specialist with Mercer.
