http://conferences.utah.edu/ncur2003/index2.html

Close Relationships
This seminar will explore scientific perspectives on friendship and romance.  Topics to be discussed will include relationship development and maintenance, developmental changes in friendships, attachment, commitment, conflict, jealousy, loneliness, power, self-disclosure, relationship dissolution, the impact of family and friends on relationships, and measurement issues related to the assessment of relationships. Students will also be asked to relate the problem of understanding close relationships to the broader challenges which face all psychologists who participate in the development of psychology as a science of human behavior.   In this seminar students will be expected to organize and report what they learn about close relationships during the semester. Students will be expected to direct class discussions and to provide summaries of the material they are working on each week. Performance will be evaluated with a a final, and several writing assignments that will include a major paper. Statistics & Research Methods II (PSY-225) is a prerequisite for this course.

Spring
New Professor:  New Course: New Opportunity
If you like animals and want to know more about them...
Janine Wotton will be teaching a seminar course on animal communication in the Spring. 

Animal Communication 
What information do animals need to communicate? With whom do they communicate? How do you stop other animals from eavesdropping? (- talking to a friend may increase your risk of being eaten).  The world is full of smells, sounds, sights, as well as electric and magnetic signals that can be used to communicate information.   This seminar course will examine how and why different animals produce, receive and interpret these signals. 
Pre-requisite PSY-100.

The CVR is a friendly place for everyone on campus. Students of every major - and those who are undecided - can benefit from the CVR. It was set up a year ago with money from a grant from the Lilly Foundation to Gustavus. It is dedicated to helping students find their calling in life, whatever it may be. Your calling can include your job, your family life, your role in the community, and your spiritual life. It's all encompassing and it's for everyone. The director of the Center, Dr. Chris Johnson, and the newly hired assistant director, Amy Pehrson, are there to support you in your trip through college. They can't tell you what you should do with your life, but they can help you decide how you want to do it. What kind of lifestyle will make you happy? Are you looking for the job that will make you rich, maybe even famous, or a job that will have you serve your community and take on leadership roles? Questions like these are asked all the time in the CVR. Chris and Amy can help guide you, they have dozens of books you can check out, and even some peppermint patties to feed you if you skipped lunch. The Center sponsors
J-term classes, retreats, and speakers. It coordinates with dozens of other departments on campus and chances are, you've taken part in something that was sponsored or co-sponsored by the Center whether you knew it or not. Its impact on our campus is impossible to miss if you look for it, but to students, it can be almost invisible. Not to knock invisibility or anything, but it wasn't designed to be invisible to students. It was designed to stand out like a flash bulb to students and prospective students who are looking for a little more meaning in their lives. It doesn't demand religiosity, a certain political view or worldview, or anything else other than you be honest with yourself and find a life that will satisfy you in every way possible. So stop in to say hi, check out a book, or get a little more information. They don't bite, but you may find yourself thoroughly hooked in and unable to escape their message.
 

  Heidi Lawson -- Staff writer

 The CVR Assessment Project
As you read this, psychologists around campus are trying to figure out how you are being affected by the CVR.  Professor Marie Walker, along with Steve Bennett from the Counseling Center, David Menk of Institutional Research, Chris Johnson, the director of the CVR, and psychology students Heidi Lawson ('05), Kristie Campana ('03), Megan LaVelle ('04), and Amy Fothergill ('04) are working on a four-year longitudinal assessment of the CVR. They are using a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures to see what kind of effect the CVR has on Gustavus students. Students will fill out surveys (so if you get one, please fill it out!), attend focus groups, and respond to free-write answers to help us get a picture of how much impact the CVR has and where improvements can be made. The goal is to create a developmental model of vocational identity that provides an outline of where students start from as first-years entering college and how they can be expected to progress over their years here. Hopefully future Gustavus students can benefit from the guidance advisors and professors can give them with the knowledge this assessment will provide.
 

Today in the History of Psychology
The American Psychological Association Historical Database is a collection of dates and brief descriptions of over 3100 events in the history of psychology.
http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/today.html

Birth Psychology
In these pages you'll be able to explore the many mental and emotional dimensions of pregnancy and birth in everything from scholarly articles to personal stories and late-breaking headlines.
http://www.birthpsychology.com/

Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is based on the recognition that the human brain consists of a large collection of functionally specialized computational devices that evolved to solve the adaptive problems regularly encountered by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Because humans share a universal evolved architecture, all ordinary individuals reliably develop a distinctively human set of references, motives, shared conceptual frameworks, emotion programs, content-specific reasoning procedures, and specialized interpretation systems--programs that operate beneath the surface of expressed cultural variability, and whose designs constitute a precise definition of human nature.
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/

Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics in Psychology
Some of the best articles, websites and research tools I've come across are assembled here, for your easy reference.
http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml
 

• Megan Nerison is in Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority, on the Inter-Greek Senate Executive Board, Lamda Alpha Nu Business Fraternity and Student Senate Executive Board --

• Laura Schultz is involved in Delta Phi Omega and Psi Chi and played hockey her freshman and sophomore year --
• Jill Sink is on the tennis team --
• Shannon Butler is co-president of Habitat for Humanity, the co-pledge trainer and fundraising co-chair for Alpha Phi Omega and is also involved in Common Ground --
• Kristen Fichtner is a member of Chi Kappa Chi Sorority --
• Heidi Lawson is a tutor at South Intermediate School, is involved in two research projects and works in the office of vocational reflection and the psych department --
• Amy Krochalk is a Career Center Ambassador, co-vice president of the Common Ground Mentoring Program, member of Delta Phi Omega and also works at South Elementary at the St. Peter Adventure Club --
• Melissa Aasen is on the dance team and in Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority --
• Jennifer Wood participates in APO and is a member of the Bell Choir --
• Miranda Gilmore is co-president of the Theta Xi Gamma Sorority, volunteers to ring bells for the Salvation Army, raises "pennies for patients" and food for the food shelf.   She works in the Alumni Office on campus (and will finish her Gustavus career after J-term)  --
• Aliya Mohamed is involved with the International Cultures Club, plays the flute in Adolphus Band, is a CF and working with the Diversity Center to prepare a month-long program for the period of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting which begins November 6th -
• Kara Nelson is a member of the Women's Soccer team and Theta Xi Gamma sorority --
• Marie Woog is involved in  Gustavus Youth Outreach, APO Lucia Singers, Handbells and regularly attends Proclaim.
• Jerod Klava plays hockey for the Men's Varsity Team --
• Kelly Semenkewitz is involved in the Big Partner/Little Partner program and also in CAB -
• Jennifer Thingvold is a member of ROTC, Theta Xi Gamma sorority and the Big Partner/Little Partner Program --
• Renee Beaudry is a member of the Women's Soccer team and Theta Xi Gamma sorority --
• Eric Butorac is on the Men's Tennis Team --
• Katie Pelleymounter is a member of the Tau Mu Tau Sorority and Wednesday Friends --
• Matt Xiong participates in Wednesday Friends, is senior representative in the Student Senate and serves on the Residential Life Committee, is a CF in the International Center, and plays on the Men's Club Volleyball Team --
• Molly McIntyre is a double major in psych and sociology/anthropology, is in APO, Varsity Gymnastics, Big Partner/Little Partner, Psi Chi and a supervisor for Gus-Link --
• Michelle Anderson has been involved in Big Partner/Little Partner for 3 years (as coordinator for 2 years), and has participated in the Habitat for Humanity spring-break trips for 3 years --
• Ben Henry is in the Gustavus Choir --
• Angela Barron is in the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra and the Theta Xi Gamma Sorority -- 
• Nikki Busch is also a biology major and is on the Women's Swim Team --
• Lisa Swenson is a member of Alpha Phi Omega Community Service Fraternity, co-chairs the Service Group, recently coordinated "Walk For A Cure", "Adopt A Highway" and "Change for Change," is a member of Gustavus Adolphus Choir, Common Ground, Big Partner/Little Partner, is an Admissions tour guide and was researcher/assistant for the Nobel Conference --
• Brooke Fails is a member of the PASO Organization, Building Bridges, and volunteers in Chile and here at a home for abused women and children --
• Josh Tucker plays hockey, is a Gustie Greeter, a member of Epsilon Pi Alpha Fraternity, volunteers at Pound Pals, is a member of Rida Lotta Pina service fraternity and belongs to the breakdancing club --
• Virginia "Ashley" Thomas is a member of the Women's Soccer Team and Theta Xi Gamma sorority.
• Morgan Barkus is co-president of PASO (pan afrikan student organization) and is also a mentor in conjunction with the newly established mentor program in the Diversity Center.

• Several printed resources are available for you to browse in the department's resource center (SSC 26). You will find information about graduate schools and career paths. Graduate School bulletins are also available.See Lee (SSC15) or email lsande@gustavus.edu for more information.

• The APA Graduate Study in Psychology 2002 - and is available for checkout.

Psi Chi Members --

http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~mpa/meeting/meeting.html

(Location to be determined - 
look for an update from Psi Chi officers)
 

By Nicki Shay

How do I choose a grad school?!  That may be a question many of you are frantically asking yourselves.  I know that I have, and still am. My first piece of advice is to start early.  I didn't decide until late last spring that I wanted to go to grad school in Psychology instead of going to med school.  The next problem I had was.How am I ever going to choose what field I want to go into?  Well, the easiest way to remedy that is to think of what classes you've enjoyed and what in particular interests you in psychology.  Is it the interpersonal part of psych?  Is it the helping part?  Next, think of what specific type of people you would like to work with.  Adults?  Children?  Schizophrenics?  Couples?  The list goes on and on.  Those things will help you narrow down your search.  After you have an idea of what you'd like to go to grad school in, talk to the professors.  They are wonderful resources to probe on which schools are good (and which schools you can rely on for "back-up").  After you've got a list of about 50 (Yeah! Less than before!) you can start looking up what the faculty at the different schools are doing research in.  If you find a professor who is doing research that seems interesting to you, mark the school down as appealing.  Then, narrow your list down and apply.  I haven't done any applications, so this article is "To be continued."

Fields of Psychology
www.psichi.org/content/publications/eye/category
/fields.asp

Applying to Grad school
www.psichi.org/content/publications/eye/
category/grad_school.asp
 

They're so wrapped up in themselves... 

Jennifer Ackil -- Professor
B.A. Lawerence; M.A., Ph.D., Kent State
Special Interests in Cognitive Psychology, and Human Memory (particularly autobiographical and eyewitness memory)

Miriam Kragness -- Visiting Assistant Professor
M.A., Specialist, Educational Psychology-Counseling
Ph.D. Industrial/Organizational Psychology-
Uof M;  Clinical Respecialization Certificate--
Minn. School of Professional Psychology
Visiting Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research.

Mark G. Kruger -- Professor
B.A., Carthage; Ph.D., Dartmouth
Special Interests in Social Psychology; Emotion, Social Development; Psychology of Music; Close Relationships

Richard Martin-- Professor
B.A., St. John's University; Ph.D., Minnesota
Special Interests in Child and Adult Development

Clark Ohnesorge -- Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., St. Olaf; M.A., Ph.D, Wisconsin, Madison
Special Interests include Visual Stimuli; Emotion and Perception; Neural Networks

Timothy C. Robinson -- Professor
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus; Ph.D., Minnesota Special Interests in the fields of Neuropsychology; Brain Chemistry; Animal Behavior

Richard Seely -- Adjunct Instructor
B.S., M.S., Mankato State
Special Interests in Corrections; Human Sexuality

Barbara Simpson -- Professor
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Washington State
Special Interests in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Identity Formation; Personality Development, and Humanistic Approaches to understanding people and Psychometrics

Nancy Walbeck-- Adjunct Professor of Psychology
B.A. Antioch College; M.A. Northwestern University; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Special Interests: Human Development, Social Learning, Sexuality, and Program Evaluation

Marie Walker -- Assistant Professor
B.A.,Western Ontario; M.A., McGill; Ph.D.,Western Ontario
Special Interests in Social Psychology, Creativity, Health Behaviors and the Self

Janine Wotton -- Assistant Professor
B.S., Adelaide, Australia
B.A., Flinders, Australia
M.S., Ph.D., Brown
Special Interests in Behavioral Neuroscience; Animal Behavior, Evolution of Sensory Systems, Perception and Sensation; Perception and Action; Cognitive Psychology, Computational Modeling; Statistics; Biomechanics; Locomotion and Motor Systems
 

• The staff of Emil's Epilogue is comprised of psychology students who are interested in helping communicate information to psychology majors regarding student news, department events, lectures, research and social opportunities via the department's electronic newsletter.

If you would like to participate either by offering suggestions, serving as reporter, by contributing newsworthy items, or by writing copy -- please contact lsande@gustavus.edu