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May 7, 2011, Newport, RI : : On Sunday, May 15, 2011, the Department of Psychology will award forty-three bachelor's degrees in psychology. The members of this year's graduating class are: April 28, 2011, Newport, RI : At a ceremony held on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, twenty-three exceptional students were inducted into the National Honor Society in Psychology~PSI CHI. Salve Regina University's chapter of this prestigious organization was chartered in 2001 and held its first induction ceremony that year on May 9, 2001. Members of this year's class are: PSI CHI CLASS OF 2011 Chelsea Bourn(2011) Alyssa Iannuceilli(2013) Alexandria Boisvert(2013) Rachel Koehler(2013) Maire Buckley(2012) Kristyn Kowalski((2012) Catherine Balasco((2013) Faith Krevis() Kimberly Butrico(2013) Allison Laurence(2013) Samantha Clark(2013) Emily Lawrence(2013) Marissa Dickinson((2012) Jaclyn Lee(2012) Sarah fletcher(2012) Jessica Long(2013) Katherine Gonsalves(2013) Amanda Narcisco() Courtney Greenstein(2012) Megan Sweeney(2013) Amanda Gurciullo(2012) Priscilla Villa(2013) Ainsley Haughton(2012) May 7, 2011, Newport, RI : Late last month, Dr. Sheila Quinn(Associate Professor of Psychology) and Dr. Andrea Chait(Adjunct Professor of Psychology) were notified by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board that Salve Regina's Department of Psychology courses and program designed to prepare undergraduates to sit for the exam upon graduation which will certify them as BOARD CERTIFIED ASSISTANT BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS has been approved. Salve's program is the only one in Rhode Island with this programatic certification(Image). Dr. Sheila Quinn, who has nurtured this unique track in psychology since its inception, described it this way: "Courses in applied behavior analysis offered by the Psychology Department at SRU have received the approval of the National Certification Board. This means that students completing these psychology courses along with a university supervised internship will be qualified, upon graduation, to take the national certification exam to become Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts. Applied Behavior Analysis(ABA)is the only proven therapy program for children with autism that is recognized by the U.S. Surgeon General so training in this area opens up a wide range of professional opportunities. Currently the demand for people with this training is much greater than the supply and the shortage is only expected to get worse. Not only does Salve now have the only nationally approved program in the state, it, unlike the vast majority of ABA programs in the rest of the country where students have to find their own placements, has its own affiliated placement program already in place in-state." March 14, 2011, Newport, RI : At the 2011 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, psychology majors Catherine Jedynasty and Asako Hyuga joined psychology professor Dr. Arthur Frankel and anthropology assistant professor Dr. Debra Curtis to present their research entitled "Can a Woman be too Pretty to be a Cop?" At the 23rd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)being held in Washington, D.C. from May 26th to 29th, Drs. Frankel and Curtis will once again be joined by psychology majors to present their research findings. Psychology majors appearing as co-authors with them at this national meeting are Devon Cormier, Dominique Santoro, Melissa Lombardo, Kathyrn Bagley, and Brigitte Smith. Their research is scheduled for public presentation at Poster Session II - Board: II- 107 on Friday, May 27, 2011 from 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM in Columbia Hall. All sessions are held at the Washington, D.C. Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009. On March 25th, our student researchers will present their APS research findings at Salve's SRYOU: STUDENT EXPO 2011 event.