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Meet the Students

MSUM students are doing amazing things. Our students embrace diversity, challenges, opportunities, unique experiences and continue to produce incredible results. Our students participate in student organizations, attend and present at regional and national conferences, compete at regional and national competitions, collaborate on faculty-mentored projects, gain hands-on experience through internships, help coordinate community service projects, and more. Many have won prestigious scholarships for academic excellence and many have won awards for their stellar work inside and outside of the classroom. See what the students from the Psychology Department are doing.
Student Testimonials

Himani Khatri, Psychology

“I’m doing undergraduate research with Dr. Nickell and we presented at the Northern Lights conference in the fall and the Red River Psychology Conference that was held at Concordia.”

“MSUM has a child development lab and a physiology lab. There are professors that do various research with students. It’s a great opportunity and a great way to gain experience in the research area.”
Jennifer Wenner, Psychology

“I really like the program. All of the professors I’ve had are very knowledgeable about the classes they teach. I feel like I’ve learned a lot from all of them even though they have very different teaching styles.”

“Putting lab data together for conferences reinforces the statistics that I learned. Also, going through the proposal process to get my own research started was helpful because we're doing the same thing for a class I'm in. Doing research is a good way to look into various areas and get a feel for what that particular area of psychology looks at.”
Sarah Butrum, Psychology

“I would say the one thing that helped propel me to where I am at today is relationships with faculty and staff. They help you, but it’s important to know that a student has to give back and be willing to try new things. The faculty and staff have done so much more than I could have imagined.”
Student Recognitions & Awards
Psychology faculty, students present at Vision meeting

Elizabeth Nawrot, Psychology, with co-authors Mark Nawrot (NDSU Psychology), and MSUM students Jennifer Livingood and Jennifer Wenner, had the following presentation at the Vision Sciences Society Meeting in Naples, Fla.: “Depth from motion parallax: The role of smooth pursuit and ocular following response eye movements.”

Psychology students present at Midwest conference

The following Psychology students presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference in Chicago, Ill., May 5-7: Jennifer Wenner, Allyson Schaan & Rebecca Stine: Detection of Inauthentic Emotion: An Eye Tracking Study (Elizabeth Nawrot, faculty sponsor); Kelsey Johnson: Virtual Sexual Aggression: Real Life Correlates of BDSM and Rape Simulations in the Virtual World of Second Life (Richard Kolotkin, faculty sponsor); Derek Page: Interestingness and Liking as Predictors of Artistic Quality (Willie Hllford, faculty sponsor); Dylan O’Brien: The future of time perspective and Beauty and Eroticism as Predictors of Artistic Quality (Willie Hallford, faculty sponsor); and Jennifer Livingood, Megan Week (a UND student), and Jacquelyn Schmidt: Media’s Influence on Body Image: An Eye Tracking Study (Elizabeth Nawrot, faculty sponsor).

Psychology students present at MN psychology conference

Casey Lloyd, and Ethan Dahl, Psychology, presented a poster entitled Music’s Effect on Helping Behavior in Second Life at the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference at Carleton College on April 16. They also presented another poster with the title Music’s Effect on Helping Behavior in Second Life: An exploration of Inter-reality at the Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference at UCL on May 7. Richard Kolotkin was the faculty advisor on this project.

Students inducted into Psi Chi

The following students were new 2010-2011 inductees into the Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology: Justine Breedon, Katie Engberg, Jordan Fisher, Himani Khatri, Jennifer Livingood, Megan Monson, Megan Nere, Nathan Nowak, Dylan O’Brien, Daniel Olson, Lyndsey Roy, and Hannah Seehafer.
Student Snapshots