Nick Van Zandt
441 Meeting Street Charleston, SC 29403
Cell: (773) 746-9913 Email: vanzandtnh@g.cofc.edu

EDUCATION
College of Charleston
Majors: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
 GPA: Overall: 3.908; Major: 3.941
Honors:Dean’s list
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology
William Bischoff Memorial Scholarship 2016
 GRE: Verbal: 158; Quantitative: 157; Analytical Writing: 5.0

Charleston, SC
Expected Graduation Date: May 2018

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Researcher at the College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
Department of Psychology
May 2016 – presentResearcher Recipient of Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty (SURF) grant in 2016 and 2017.
 Independent studies Fall 2016 and Spring 2017.
 Studied functional behavioral units involved with reinforced behavioral variation. This included
data collection, many readings on various relevant topics including behavioral variation andfunctional response units, rigorous data analysis, weekly discussions surrounding the literatureand the findings our research, and writing the literature review, methods, results, and discussionsections of my Independent Study paper.
 Data collection during the two SURFs was 6 (2017) or 7 (2016) days a week and biweekly
during the independent studies. It involved working with Med-PC IV software, loading pigeons
into operant conditioning chambers, recording the data, and computing U-values.
 Weekly readings were 1-3 behavior-analytic publications from which I would formulate
discussion questions that I would explore with my mentor in our weekly meeting.
 Data analysis involved interpreting the data, formulating new dependent measures to quantify thedata, analyzing trends and determining stability, creating tables and figures, and more.
 Bachelor’s Essay Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 in derived stimulus relations (DSR). This involved
planning our experiments as well as completing readings and discussion of the DSR literatureincluding topics such as nodal distance effects, testing paradigms, training structures, anddeveloping technology from DSR. Additionally, I programmed our experiment using MTS
computer software, ran the participants, analyzed the data, and formulated a manuscript.
 Attended Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis Conference 2016.
Research Dissemination
 2017 Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis (SEABA) poster presentation.
 2017 College of Charleston Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA)
Celebration of Scholars poster presentation.
 2017 Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior (SQAB) and Association for BehaviorAnalysis International (ABAI) conferences poster presentations.

2016 College of Charleston Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA)
Celebration of Scholars poster presentation.

Intern at The New School for Social Research
Department of Psychology

New York, NYSpring 2012Intern

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Interned for graduate student’s research in Social Psychology involving the effects of theenvironment on interpersonal attitudes.
Created advertisements to find participants using Craigslist and posting fliers.
Organized and scheduled testing times for participants via email.
Ran testing sessions, debriefing participants in control and experimental groups.
Conducted research for the literature review.

Clinical Experience
Line Therapist at Carolina Coast Behavioral Services
Charleston, SCIntern/Therapist
August 2016 – January 2017
 Worked as a line therapist doing Applied Behavior Analysis with autism.
 Implemented programs designed to decrease socially inappropriate behaviors and improve
desirable behavior in clients.
 Collected behavioral data in the field.
 Contributed to design of clients’ future programs.
Volunteer Experience
PresentationChair
 Introduced Dr. Nicole Dorey for her presentation “Wild about preference assessments: Using
assessment across different taxonomic groups” at the Southeastern Association for Behavioral
Analysis conference 2017.
Best Buddies Illinois at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School
Chicago, IL
Peer Buddy
2008- December 2010
 Peer buddy for two students with autism.
 Helped buddies integrate with school environment and overcome obstacles.
 Attended Best Buddies chapter events with my buddy to socialize with other members of theorganization.
 Spent time with buddy and his family inside and outside of school.
College of Charleston
Animal Care Worker
 Manager: Dr. Garret Milliken
Tasks:
 Feeding and giving water to mice, rats, and pigeons daily.
 Cleaning cages weekly.
 Maintaining laboratory conditions.

Charleston, SC
May 2016 – August 2017