Dear Psychology
and Neuroscience Majors,
On Friday
October 17th, the Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences will celebrate its 2nd Annual Alumni Recognition and
Homecoming Day. You are invited to join us at 11:30am on Friday, for
Undergraduate Career & Professional Development Round Tables with alumni
and professionals in the fields of business, criminology & law, social
work/clinical, and career/graduate school planning. Representatives in each of
these areas will address questions you might have about these career paths as
they relate to psychology and neuroscience.
We hope you will attend one of these round tables and tap into the experience
of thriving professionals in each field. More details about each round table
can be found here:
BUSINESS
George F. Dreher
(Ph.D),
Professor Emeritus, Management and Entrepreneurship,
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University-Bloomington, will lead a
round table discussion open to all students interested in pursuing careers in
business, human resources or other areas related to psychology, including
industrial/organizational psychology. Through an informal discussion and
question and answer session, students will learn about post-graduate
opportunities available in the business world.
Professor Dreher previously was an industrial psychologist at Southern
California Edison Company, a member of the faculty at the University of Kansas,
and served as a visiting scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. Professor Dreher’s research focuses on the role of race, ethnicity,
gender, and opportunity in accounting for career attainment and success in
multinational enterprises (with a focus on managerial and executive talent pool
management). He has published widely in journals such as the Academy
of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the
Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of
Management, Human Relations, and the Journal of Vocational Psychology. He
also has co-authored three books and numerous other papers and book chapters.
CRIMINOLOGY
& LAW
Have you thought
about going to law school or pursuing a career in the legal or civil service
sector? Psychological and Brain Sciences alumna Jessica Jackson-McLain,
faculty member Dr. Mary C. Murphy, and Associate Professor of Law
Victor D. Quintanilla will lead a round table discussion designed for
students interested in legal or civil service professions. Through an informal
question and answer session, the discussion will focus on the intersection
between psychology and the law and help students to better understand possible
routes towards these career goals. Specifically, students will learn more about
career and graduate school options that incorporate psychology and law and the
ways in which student interested in law might benefit (and benefit their
employers) from a deeper understanding of psychological theories and research.
Jessica
Jackson-McLain is
a first-generation college student and a recent graduate of the Indiana
University Maurer School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude from Indiana
University in 2010 with a double-major in psychology and criminal justice and a
minor in political science. During law school, she served as the Secretary
General of Maurer's ACS chapter and competed in the Sherman Minton and Williams
Institute Moot Court Competitions. Her first law-school summer, she interned in
Washington, DC, with both the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the
Inspector General, and the Department of Commerce, Office of General Counsel.
The following summer she was a judicial extern for the Honorable Christopher A.
Nuechterlein, Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Indiana.
Mary C. Murphy is an Assistant
Professor of Psychology at Indiana University. Her research focuses on
developing and testing theories about how people’s social identities and group
memberships, such as their gender, race, and socio-economic status, interact
with the contexts they encounter to affect people’s thoughts, feelings,
motivation, and performance. Her specific research projects focus on
illuminating the situational cues that influence students’ academic motivation
and achievement with an emphasis on understanding when those processes are
similar and different for majority students and underrepresented minority
students. Dr. Murphy has conducted research at the intersection of social
psychology and law that examines how stigmatized groups (e.g., gay individuals,
people of color) are treated and perceived in the context of certain laws and
legal practices. Dr. Murphy earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at
Austin and a PhD from Stanford University. After graduate school, she completed
a NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University, followed by an
Assistant Professor position at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2012,
she joined the faculty of Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Victor D.
Quintanilla
joined the Maurer School of Law faculty in 2012. His research evaluates legal
decision-making and jurisprudence by drawing on theory and methods within the
field of social psychology. He examines how social psychological accounts
of human behavior compare and contrast with assumptions about human behavior
embedded within the law. His current empirical projects involve several
phenomena, including procedural justice, implicit bias, lay theories of
discrimination, and implicit theories of jurisprudence, and explore issues of
race, gender, and discrimination. At Indiana Law, he teaches Civil
Procedure I and will teach Advanced Civil Procedure, and Law and Social
Psychology. Quintanilla has presented his research at several academic
conferences, including the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
(SPSP), the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), and
the Law & Society Association (LSA). Before joining the law school,
Quintanilla served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Rights Division, an associate of Sidley Austin LLP, a staff law clerk for
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a law clerk to the
Honorable Peter J. Messitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Maryland.
SOCIAL
WORK/CLINICAL
Psychological
and Brain Sciences alumnus Keaton Presti-Stringfellow and Melissa N.
Ritter, Education Technology Specialist for PBS, will lead a round table
discussion open to all students interested in social work or other related
counseling areas. Students will learn more about post-graduate opportunities
available to psychology majors with an interest in the field of social work.
This informal question and answer session will explore topics pertinent to the
field such as case management, school psychology, and family and community
services.
Keaton
Presti-Stringfellow is
currently a second year student in the MSW program at IUPUI with a mental
health concentration.
Melissa
N. Ritter,
MSW, LSW is currently employed by the Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences as their Education Technology Specialist for the past 2 years.
She earned her Bachelors of Science in Psychology with a minor in Gender
Studies from Indiana University in 2008 during which time she was a member of
Psi Chi, the National Psychology Honors Society. From there, she worked
full time as a mental health technician at Bloomington Meadows Hospital until
2010. She received her Master of Social Work from the University of
Kentucky in 2012 during which she was able to work on a number of research
projects focusing on chronic health conditions, poverty, child abuse and neglect,
and asset based community assessments and presented this work at conferences,
including the 2012 and 2013 Community Development Society’s Annual Conference
and the 2012 Kentucky Association of Social Work Education (KASWE)
Conference. Aside from her program evaluation and research experiences,
Melissa also completed two full-time internships at the Children’s Advocacy
Center of the Bluegrass and the UK Center on Trauma and Children.
GRADUATE SCHOOL
PLANNING FOR CAREERS IN MENTAL HEALTH
Want
to learn more about what LMHC, LPC, MSW, MFT, PsyD, and PhD mean? Join Alison
Smith, Assistant Director at the IU Career Development Center, for a round
table discussion focusing on the different career and graduate school options
available in the mental health counseling field. This session is designed for
students who are interested in getting started in the graduate school planning
process and have questions related to reaching career goals in the field of
Psychology - we hope that you can join us to get the conversation started!
Alison
Smith
currently serves as Assistant Director at the IU Career Development Center.
Alison’s passion for career development was discovered during her undergraduate
education while she worked as a peer advisor for the Career Development Center
at the University of Richmond. After graduation, she moved to Chicago and took
a job as a recruiter. Missing the higher education environment, she accepted a
position at the University of Chicago in Dual Career Services. In her role, she
assisted the spouses and partners of new faculty members and faculty recruits.
Alison is excited to be back working with students and helping them discover
their career goals. Students enrolled in degree programs within the Natural
& Mathematical Sciences division can schedule an appointment with Alison to
receive career-related assistance. Visit ascs.indiana.edu
and schedule an appointment with Alison through your myjobs account.
***Lunch will
be provided, but an RSVP is required for lunch!*** Please contact the
alumni office at psyneuro@indiana.edu
to sign up today!
Attached is the
complete schedule of the day – we hope that you will join us for this wonderful
celebration of the department!
PBS Advising
Team
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