Psychology Department welcomes a new Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2008

The Psychology Department is pleased to announce the upcoming arrival of our newest faculty member.  Dr. Madeline Rhodes will join our department in the Fall of 2008.  Dr. Rhodes received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroendocrinology from The University at Albany - SUNYand then completed two post-docs at the University of Hartford and the University at Albany.   Dr Rhodes will be teaching courses in Behavioral Neuroscience as well as Psychological Methods and Statistics among other courses.  She is particularly interested in interactions between commonly used therapeutic drugs and the endocrine system and subsequent effects on hormonally-influenced behaviors. Previous projects in Dr. Rhodes’ lab have investigated the effects of anti-epileptic drugs on androgen levels in various brain areas and androgen-mediated behaviors such as anxiety, social, cognitive, and reproductive behaviors. Dr. Rhodes is also interested in how neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases influence, and are influenced by, stress responses.

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Psychology Major wins the prestigious Ridington Award at Graduation

Emily Paull's senior capstone paper earned her the Ridington Award when it was selected as the best senior thesis written across all disciplines at the college in the spring of 2008.  She conducted two experiments to test the hypothesis that listening to punk music would prime a nonconconformist stereotype and thus cause people to conform less to group pressure. This paper will be published in the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research.

 

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Emeritus Professor receives the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology

Dr. Vernon McCay, Emeritus Professor, received the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation.  The foundation honoring Dr. McCay stated that his "exploration of the psychosocial aspects of deafness, his challenges to poor educational practices, his encouragement of deal people and his continued fight to ensure legal rights for those who are deaf have changed the way deafness and people who are deaf are perceived.  Because of his commitment to these issues, today's generation of deaf people have far greater opportunities than their parents ever hoped for."  Dr. McCay was presented this prestigious award at the 2007 annual convention of the American Psychological Association.