Psychology professor selected as Boehlke Fellow
Psychology Professor Jack D. Arnal is the 2025 Charles A. Boehlke, Jr. Engaged Faculty Fellow. Established with a gift from Charles A. Boehlke, Jr., a 1978 alum of the college and current member of the McDaniel Board of Trustees, faculty are named Boehlke Fellows in recognition of their exceptional commitment to their students, not only in classrooms and research labs but also with career and internship experiences.
McDaniel College Psychology Professor Jack D. Arnal has been selected as a Charles A. Boehlke, Jr. Engaged Faculty Fellow.
A McDaniel faculty member is chosen annually as a Boehlke Fellow in recognition of their exceptional commitment to their students, not only in classrooms and research labs but also with career and internship experiences.
Jack D. Arnal
Arnal has taught in the Psychology department at McDaniel since 2009 and is currently department chair. A cognitive psychologist, his research focuses on human behavior and particularly memory processes. He also studies metascience and has involved McDaniel students in several research projects in this area.
A member of the Association for Psychological Science, Psychonomic Society, and Society for the Teaching of Psychology, he has had numerous articles published in scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Psychology, and has presented at various conferences.
He has been a member of several faculty committees at McDaniel and is currently the advisor of the college’s Psychology Club. In 2015, he received the Ira G. Zepp Teaching Enhancement Grant with McDaniel Psychology Professor Madeline Rhodes to develop a teaching laboratory for the Psychology department to engage students in research and empower them to develop their own experiments.
Prior to coming to McDaniel, he was an instructor at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, and both a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
The Charles A. Boehlke, Jr. Engaged Faculty Fellows program was established in 2017 with a gift from Charles A. Boehlke, Jr., a 1978 alum of the college and current member of the McDaniel Board of Trustees.
As a Boehlke Fellow, Arnal receives a stipend of $5,000 per year or a course release, plus up to an additional $2,000 per year for professional development or other engagement-related work. Each Boehlke Fellow is selected for a two-year period and is not eligible to reapply for a five-year period.
