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NEWS
During the past year Psi Chi/Psychology
Society has done an outstanding job meeting the needs of
psychology students and the UTA community and pursuing our
mission of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence
in scholarship of the individual members in all fields,
particularly in psychology, and advancing the science of
psychology.
Psi Chi/Psychology Society has brought informative
speakers to enhance the knowledge about psychology, psychology
educational programs and various fields in Psychology.
Through our activities we have also emphasized the
scientific nature of our field and dispelled myths it. We have
taken on several community projects including a canned food
drive (for which we won the Science Constituency Council’s
Food Drive Contest Philanthropy award), a clothing, bedding and
food drive for Mission Arlington, donation of Thanksgiving food
baskets, Easter baskets and an Easter Egg Hunt. We also
sponsored a practice GRE which was open to all UTA students.
Another major emphasis of ours has been encouraging student
research and scholarship which benefits UTA as a whole and
serves the long-term interests of the community. Five of our
members presented posters at the 13th Annual Psi Chi
TCU convention and two posters at UTA’s Undergraduate Research
Convention (SURCA). Much if not most of the research in UTA’s
psychology labs is done with the assistance of our members both
undergraduate and graduate. Our web site at
www.uta.edu/student_orgs/psichi
emphasizes the opportunities for research available at UTA. Many
of our members also volunteer directly in the community such as
at local clinics, hospitals and homes. We have also begun
planning for a psychology convention of our own which will bring
a nationally known speaker of both academic and general public
interest to UTA.
We have not only more than doubled the attendance at our
meetings over last year, we have written local community
colleges to invite their members to attend our meetings,
particularly those who have no psychology society of their own.
Through all of our activities we have emphasized that psychology
is a study of people, specifically they way people think,
interact and behave. Through this increased understanding, we
hope that people will find knowledge that improves their lives
and helps them adapt to and have a positive impact on the world
around them. We intend for our organized efforts to ultimately
benefit our members, our university and our society.
Anthony
Pedrazine
Webmaster
Convention Chair
President 2001-2002
Previous message:
Welcome back everyone. I hope you had a fun
vacation. As an organization, we accomplished a lot last
semester. We established regular meetings with the highest
attendance we have had in years. We have won acclaim from
faculty for bringing back a sense of community among psychology
students and sharing that energy the Department of Psychology.
Individual students have achieved high honors with the support
of Psi Chi and are doing notable research. We have recruited
officers dedicated to supporting and promoting Psi Chi/Psy Soc,
UTA's psychology department as well as their fellow students. From this
foundation, there is much more that we can accomplish. Let's
have another great semester.
Anthony Pedrazine
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