/news-archive/tag/psi-chi/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 09 May 2018 08:35:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/05/09/betsy-van-dusen/ Wed, 09 May 2018 08:35:30 +0000 /news/?p=70511 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock grad savors college experience close to home]]> At North Little Rock High School, Van Dusen had participated and excelled in the Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) Initiative. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock had the first and only collegiate level EAST program in the country, and Van Dusen was offered 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 highly competitive full-tuition EAST Scholarship. 鈥淚t was an amazing opportunity,鈥� she said, 鈥渁nd I knew it was the right decision.鈥� Four years later, and Van Dusen will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology on May 12 in the Jack Stephens Center. She has been accepted into the University of Central Arkansas鈥� Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and starts this fall. After the two-and-a-half-year graduate program, Van Dusen will sit for exams to become a licensed professional counselor. 鈥淚 was an anxious kid myself and have a special interest in working with kids and teenagers,鈥� she said. When she started college, Van Dusen thought she wanted to be a teacher. 鈥淔or the first year, I took Intro to Teaching, and I volunteered at a school for an afternoon program,鈥� she said. Then, during her sophomore year, she took Dr. Robert 聽Hines鈥� Cognitive Psychology class. 鈥淚 always looked forward to the class, and realized I was really interested in it. I鈥檝e always been interested in how people interact and why they think the way they do. I decided I can do a lot with this degree.鈥� Van Dusen is also a member of Psi Chi, a national honor society for psychology students. She hadn鈥檛 planned to be a sociology major as well, but after taking several sociology classes, her advisor pointed out that she was three classes shy of having a double major. 鈥淪ome of my hardest classes were in sociology, but I learned so much,鈥� she said. Van Dusen has also had the dual experience of campus living and commuting. For the first two years, she lived in South Hall. 鈥淚t was a good experience to have some freedom,鈥� she said. 鈥淟iving on campus, you can either sit in your dorm and be alone or get out and do stuff. For the EAST program, I was spending a lot of time with the other scholars and met many friends. It definitely made me put myself out there.鈥� As an EAST Scholar, she was required to spend 15 hours per week in the lab, working on projects with other scholars. The Scholars annually exhibited work at the national annual EAST Initiative conference in Hot Springs. During her junior and senior year, Van Dusen chose to live at home to save money. She also has worked various part-time retail and restaurant jobs to ensure that she graduates debt-free. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 a great feeling,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 really have enjoyed 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. I鈥檝e had some great professors and some challenging professors, but they all made it clear that they were here to help me.鈥漖]> /news-archive/2018/01/18/daniel-harel/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:59:30 +0000 /news/?p=69031 ... Department of Psychology to host mentalist Feb. 2]]> University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty, staff, and students are invited to join the Department of Psychology for an afternoon of discovery with renowned mentalist, Daniel Harel, on Friday, Feb. 2. The Psychology Club, along with Psi Chi, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock national honors society for 聽psychology, will host the event in the Engineering and Information Technology Building auditorium at 1 p.m. During his presentation of 鈥淒o You Believe in Magic? The Psychology of it All,鈥� Harel will share behind-the-scenes elements of his profession, including the process, practice, skills and psychology needed to create magic or the illusion of such. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Hines, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, at rjhines@ualr.edu.]]>