ECU Department of Psychology

Mission Statement

We are committed to distinctive undergraduate and graduate education, to exemplary teaching, research, scholarship, and professional and public service. These commitments are implemented with sensitivity to human intellectual diversity consistent with individual rights, and with special attention to cultural and racial complexities. Our department also respects academic integrity in the classroom and in research and emphasizes academic freedom and shared governance.

Welcome from Chair

Welcome to the Department of Psychology website at East Carolina University! East Carolina is located in Greenville, North Carolina, a University town of 70,000. We are just one hour east of the capitol, Raleigh, and about two hours from the Atlantic Ocean and outer banks. The Psychology department is located in Rawl building on the main campus. We have 34 full-time faculty members involved in the undergraduate major and four graduate programs. We admit students into the Ph.D. program in Health Psychology, as well as M.A. programs in research, clinical, school, and I/O psychology. We also have an online MA program for students planning to teach in community colleges. We have about 600 undergraduate majors and approximately 60 graduate students. The Ph.D. program has admitted its first class in the fall of 2007 and has two tracks: clinical behavioral medicine and pediatric school psychology. Our graduate programs are applied in nature and focus on providing clinical, school, and I/O psychologists to work in health care settings, schools, and businesses. We have practicum and internship sites in a variety of local and regional settings. This year we welcome 7 new faculty members, whom you can meet on our faculty page. We have a new Director of Health Psychology, Dr. Sam Sears, whose research focuses on psycho-cardiology, studying patients with implanted defibrillators. We welcome three new assistant professors, Laura Anderson, Mark Bowler, and Scott Methe who also strengthen our health, school and I/O psychology programs. We encourage you to explore our website, to read our newsletter, to visit the campus, and to consider making ECU your academic home.

Sincerely,
Kathleen A. Lawler Row
Professor and Chair

News

Congratulations to Maggie O’Neal (former faculty member) for receiving Emerita status.

Thank you to Laura Anderson for creating a great display case to honor our faculty who have recently received awards: Erik Everhart for the 5 year research and creative achievement award, Susan McCammon for the Women of Distinction award for 2007 given by the Chancellor’s committee on the status of women, Susan McCammon and Michael Brown for Scholar-Teacher awards.

Congratulations to Karl Wuensch for being appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Psychology.

Congratulations to the 7 faculty whose student ratings were in the range to qualify as nominees for the Hazel F. Stapleton Memorial Excellence in Teaching Award: Erik Everhart, Jeannie Golden, Clem Handron, Nate Vietor, Christy Walcott, Ted Whitley and Karl Wuensch.

Congratulations to Erik Everhart for passing the certification exam for Behavioral Sleep Medicine, administered by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Erik was also selected as a reviewer for a F12B fellowship panel at NIH.

Recent kudos to Karl Wuensch on his amazing and amazingly helpful website on statistics from doctoral students at Zurich University and at Loma Linda University.

Congratulations to Tuan Tran who has been appointed the new Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience.

Congratulations to Amy Shipley (adjunct faculty member) who was asked to attend the Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai, China this October as the Pitt County Delegation Representative. She is the roller skating coach for two athletes who competed.

Congratulations to Cecelia Valrie who was accepted for participation in the Summer Institute Program to Increase Diversity in Biomedical Research at the University of Texas in Dallas!

Explore the new website describing the undergraduate Multidisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. Neuroscience can be an undergraduate major or minor course of study.

Tuan Tran has had a grant from the Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation funded for $50,000. It is titled “Critical periods of fetal alcohol exposure and effects on cerebellar-dependent learning and neuroanatomy” and has the possibility of a second year of funding as well. Congratulations, Tuan!

Jeannie Golden has been invited to submit an article on “Emotional coercion in families with children who have serious emotional disturbance” to the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy. In addition, she has been named as Guest Editor of a special issue of the journal to capture presentations she is organizing at the next National conference ofapplied behavioral analysis.

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PhD Program in Health Psychology

The first class of PhD Students in the Health Psychology Program in Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Pediatric School Psychology started in Fall 2007.

Applications for the Fall 2008 class are now being reviewed.

Go here Ph.D. Program for more information on the Ph.D. Program.

Go here Applications for details on applying to the PhD program.

Faculty Openings

Faculty Positions Starting Fall 2008

Associate or Full Professor in Clinical Psychology
Teaching Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Detailed descriptions of open positions>>>