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Winners and Honors
There is a lot of good work going on for the students working out of Dr.
Duran’s Social Lab! Several students have recently received recognition
for their research. Amy Grundvig and Kati Rodzon, both
McNair scholars, took their research to the conference for Alpha Chi
(the national honor society). Amy won first prize for psychological
research, and Kati won a scholarship for her work. Jared
Chapman, who is a McNair scholar and a Sally Casanova Predoctoral
student, won First Place in the Undergraduate, Humanities and Social
Sciences division of the CSUB Student Research Competition. He will also
be presenting his research at the 7th Annual Stanford Undergraduate
Psychology Conference this spring. Mike Butler has recently been
chosen as the CSUB nominee for the William Randolph Hearst/CSU Trustees'
Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Several of the students from Duran’s lab will also be presenting their
research at the Western Psychological Association Conference in May.
Amy is presenting two of her research projects: “Attitudes toward
Openly and Closeted Gay Males” and “Attitudes and Intended Behaviors
toward Women Who Work.” She has also won the Mary J. Allen award for her
research, which will be presented at WPA. Kati is presenting her
research, “A Measure of Attitudes Held toward Lesbian Women.” Jared is
presenting “Effects of Political Beliefs on Opposing Viewpoints:
Evidence for a Threat to Core Beliefs” and “Religiosity and a Threat to
Core Beliefs: A Survey of Religious Leaders and College Students.”
James Cazares, graduate student, will be presenting “Affect and
Cognition in Development of Attitudes Stemming from Political Ideology,”
and Jordan Rude, graduate student, will be presenting “"Effects
of Negative Affect on Information Processing and Intergroup Attitude."
And yet there’s more! Two of our lab students have been accepted to
graduate programs. Kati has been accepted to the Master’s program
at SFSU, and James has been accepted to the Ph.D. program at
Texas Tech. Additionally, James has also been awarded an AT&T
Chancellor’s Endowed Fellowship at Texas Tech.
2007 Outstanding Graduating Seniors
Amy Grundvig has been chosen as the Psychology Department
Outstanding Graduating Senior for the Bakersfield Campus. Amy is a
member of Alpha Chi and Sigma Xi. She is also vice president of the CSUB
chapter of Psi Chi. She is a McNair Scholar and has presented her
research at several conferences, and won first prize for research in
psychology at the Alpha Chi conference. She has been active as a
consultant for statistics for students and faculty, the director for Dr.
Duran’s social lab, and a teaching assistant (TA) for many different
classes. She plans to attend the CSUB MA program, and continue on to
earn her Ph.D. in Social Psychology.
Jared Chapman has been awarded the Psi Chi Award in Psychology.
He served as Vice President and President of Psi Chi, and was
instrumental in their work in Habitat for Humanity, the “Stuffed Animal
Spectacular,” and the Psi Chi Research Conference, among many other
events. He is a McNair Scholar and a Sally Casanova Predoctoral Scholar.
He holds a 3.69 GPA in his double-majors of Psychology and Religious
Studies, and he has presented his research in both of these areas at a
variety of conferences. He intends to earn his Ph.D. in Social
Psychology.
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