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Dr. Gilliam studies genetic defects


Dr. Kevin Pugh was approved for a REDI grant of $20,000 to support a project titled: A Design-Based Approach to Fostering Transformative Learning in Middle School Science.


Winter Interim Class Schedule (pdf)


Doctoral student coauthors grant.


Student Research Oppertunity:

In the Fall of 2008, we are conducting two studies of obesity stereotypes and their development in children.


At their annual conference, the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association named Dr. Nancy Karlin as recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Service Award.


At the Spring Academic Excellence Banquet The School of Psychological Sciences Received the University’s 2008 Award for School/Program Excellence in Service.


Cutting Edge Research on Obesity by Dr. Paul Klaczynski


Congratulations to Theodore Bashore who won funding of more than $150,000 from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Science. More information about Bashore's research project.

No Mystery is so Profound as the Mystery of the Human Mind

We live in an age of space travel and artificial hearts, virtual reality and cloned sheep. Yet for all our technical advancement, our world is still a troubled one. We have school shootings and gang violence, broken families and teenage parents, racial conflict and cultural unrest, drug addiction and alcohol abuse, low school achievement and high dropout rates. We have greater material wealth than any society in the history of humanity, yet depression is common.

These problems will not be solved by a new drug, a new computer chip, or any other new technology. They will only be solved through an understanding of human thought, feeling, and action. This is the domain of the psychological sciences


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