For instance, Tisha Miller's research has been accepted for presentation at the 1999 National Conference on Undergraduate Research. In addition, students on research teams led by Cyndy Scheibe and Nancy Rader appeared as coauthors at this year's meeting in Albuquerque of the Society for Research in Child Development. Linda McBride's students have regularly coauthored papers given at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. Much of the research that the psychology students complete has its beginnings in the department's research teams program. Each psychology major spends three semesters conducting research under the tutelage of a single professor.
Students frequently choose to continue their research experience for additional semesters.
The payoffs are obvious when you see the list of graduate programs our students are accepted into. They include doctoral programs at Pennsylvania State, Rice, Syracuse, Tufts, and Yale Universities and the Universities of Hartford, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Rhode Island, as well as master's programs at Rochester Institute of Technology, John Jay College, Catholic University, and other prestigious institutions. The research team subjects that will be active for next year's crop of student researchers are Barney Beins's humor, Linda McBride's psychology and law, Jack Peck's neuroscience, Nancy Rader's cognition, Cyndy Scheibe's effects of television, Andrea White's developmental psychology, and David Williams's spaces and places. It should be another interesting year. In her memory, friends and colleagues have established the Janet Kalinowski Student Development Fund in Women's Studies.