Regan Gurung
Regan A. R. Gurung is an Indian-American psychologist and author. Gurung is the former president of Psi Chi, the founding co-editor of the "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology" published by the American Psychological Association, and co-chair of the APA's General Psychology Initiative. He has been awarded numerous honors for his contribution to social and pedagogical psychology, authoring more than a dozen educational books, and publishing over 120 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. History. Gurung was born in Bombay, India. He moved to the United States at an early age. At the  origination of his educational itinerary, Gurung attended and received his undergraduate degree in psychology in 1991 at the liberal arts-based Carleton College in Minnesota. He later earned his Master's and Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle during the mid-1990s. Since completing his doctoral studies, he assumed the role of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health at UCLA in 1996. During the early-2000s, Gurung worked as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, obtaining the role of Chair at the University's Department of Psychology  and later as Associate Dean of the Liberal Arts & Sciences. As of 2019, he currently serves as a professor and the director of the psychology program at Oregon State University. He also is the founding co-editor of the APA's "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology" journal. Recognition. Since his tenure began amid teaching at numerous American universities, Gurung has authored and released more than 120 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals, authoring 15 books, and amassing mass media coverage. He has also been the subject of several honors and awards by the leading initiatives and organizational bodies  in the social sciences. Gurung also appeared in a TEDx Talk.