Teaching

I have taught a broad range of courses. My teaching endeavors extend beyond the classroom. With the support of former Douglass Dean Jewel Cobb, I initiated and obtained external funding for an innovative internship program (i.e., the Science/Management Certificate Program) for female science majors (including Psychology). During its first five years and then again from 1988 until 1992, I directed this pioneer program (the first of its kind in the nation) and supervised the internship placements of the students. The more than 100 students who were members of this program uniformly reported feeling that it was "one of the most beneficial facets of their college careers."

        I take my teaching responsibility very seriously and regularly involve a half dozen or so undergraduate honors and research students in my program of research. Together with my graduate students, I meet regularly with this research team to provide supervision and perspective on current studies and to discuss the research process and obtained results. This research team approach has allowed me to act as mentor for a large number of psychology undergraduates, many of whom have gone on to graduate school and have become psychologists themselves. With my graduate students I have been able to additionally involve them in the research planning, presenting, and publishing process.