Congratulations to the newly elected Psychology Club Officers for the year 2010-2011:
President: Nancy Walter
Vice President: Emilie Wiener
Treasurer: Trish Greene
Secretary: Theresa Skaar
Faculty Advisor: Dr. August Hoffman
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kerry Kleyman
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Nancy Walter is a senior majoring in Psychology at Metro State University and will be graduating in the spring of 2011. As President, Nancy hopes to foster the Club’s visibility and professional reputation on all three campuses. One of her goals this year is to promote psychology research opportunities on campus, educate students on furthering their academic pursuits in the field of psychology, and introduce students to how the Club can be relevant and beneficial to each individual student at Metro State regardless of their major/minor. In addition to being a student, Nancy works in the Psychology Lab as a student worker and volunteers at a local hospital delivering communion and conducting medical program research. “It is a strong desire of mine to show students how the field of research in psychology need not be an intimidating area for students” |
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Emilie Wiener is a junior majoring in Psychology, and will be graduating December 2011. She is looking forward to attending graduate school and a career where she can specialize in working with people who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Emilie is a full time student, and a full time employee at a bookstore in St. Paul. When not working or studying, she enjoys reading, playing board and video games, doing puzzles, running and spending time with her boyfriend and family. Emilie also loves to travel, and trys to fit in trips to various places into her schedule all the time. |
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I am a senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Sociology, graduating spring of 2011. I will continue to graduate school, ideally to complete my PhD in Social Psychology. My strongest interests lie in research and teaching. I am a full time student at Metro and Psychology is my second and chosen career after a serendipitous 20 years of working in broadcast and print as a project manager in Advertising/Design. When I am not studying I enjoy spending time with my son, friends and family, and pursuing hobbies: reading, writing, photography, gardening and cooking. |
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I am majoring in Psychology and will be graduating in the spring of 2011. I will then continue on to graduate school. My ideal career path will have me working with the elderly their communities and families. |
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August John Hoffman is currently a professor of psychology at Metropolitan State University. He earned his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara, M.A. from Radford University in Clinical Psychology (with an emphasis in Sport Psychology), and Ph.D. from UCLA in educational psychology. As a former professor of psychology at Compton College, CSU Northridge, and Pepperdine University, he has assisted students from various educational backgrounds in accomplishing their goals. He began and developed a highly successful gardening program at Compton College in an effort to help students improve their campus and community. Current research interests include community service work and student mentoring as effective methods to reduce ethnic conflict and improve self-efficacy among community college students. For the last five years Dr. Hoffman has conducted research on the Compton campus with outdoor gardening work with community college students and CSUN mentors, and the results have been very positive. We have seen significant increases in the transition to higher education directly as a result of our community service and gardening work. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman has taught several psychology courses including Motivation and Sport Psychology, which include an applied approach to creating healthy lifestyles for his students. He has published several books and academic research articles, including the texts, Unity Through Community Service Activities; Understanding Sport Psychology and Human Behavior; and, Stop Procrastinating Now!. He enjoys gardening at his home in Hudson, Wisconsin during his time off with his family – Nancy his wife, and two children A.J. and Sara. |
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Kerry S. Kleyman, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State University. She is an alumnus of Metropolitan State University, earning her B.A. in Psychology, minor in Anthropology. During her undergraduate work at Metropolitan State University, she served as the Psychology Club President, a member of SAFAC, worked in the Psychology Lab, and was awarded the Outstanding Student of the Year for the College of Professional Studies and was a member of Psi Chi. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno in Social Psychology, and earned honors as a SQIN Fellow (Special Qualifications in Nutrition from the UNR Medical School) and was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. While in graduate school, she also received special training in Political Psychology through the International Society of Political Psychology at Stanford University and Structural Equation Modeling at University of Kansas. During her time as a graduate student, she taught several psychology courses at the University of Nevada, Reno and Lake Tahoe Community College. Current research interests include person perception and race, intergroup processes and discrimination, race, ethnic, and cultural stereotypes, interracial and multiracial relationships, and decision making. She is currently working on an applied research intervention investigating nutritional habits in elderly populations. Dr. Kleyman is in her second year at Metropolitan State University, and completed her doctoral dissertation, titled: Blending into the background?: The influence of situation cues on perceptions of racially ambiguous individuals, in the summer of 2010. |
