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HOD Student Marjorie Florestal Joins the Board of Caribbean Women in International Trade

2023-08-22T11:51:28-07:00

To commemorate Fielding’s 49th Anniversary, the President’s Sustainability Advisory Council has designated 2023 as Fielding Global Ecological and Social Justice Service Year. The purpose of this designation is to collect stories of Fielding community members engaged in service in their communities. Here is one shared by Marjorie Florestal, J.D., a graduate student in the Human and Organizational Development Program. Marjorie Florestal Marjorie Florestal joins the board of Caribbean Women in International Trade (CWIT), a non-profit organization that works to empower women in the Caribbean by adopting initiatives to increase their participation in international trade. CWIT provides training, education, [...]

HOD Student Marjorie Florestal Joins the Board of Caribbean Women in International Trade2023-08-22T11:51:28-07:00

Media Psychology Alum Stephanie Jiroch Hired as Adjunct Faculty at University of Nevada, Reno

2023-05-19T11:50:41-07:00

Media Psychology alum Stephanie Jiroch was hired as an adjunct professor of marketing at the University of Nevada, Reno - Lake Tahoe campus teaching Advanced Marketing Strategy in the business and entrepreneur program. Stephanie Jiroch, M.A., doctoral candidate Stephanie Jiroch is a graduate of Fielding's Master's in Media Psychology and is currently a doctoral candidate in Psychology with an emphasis in Media at Fielding Graduate University. In addition, she holds an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, and a bachelor of arts in Advertising and Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. As an [...]

Media Psychology Alum Stephanie Jiroch Hired as Adjunct Faculty at University of Nevada, Reno2023-05-19T11:50:41-07:00

Psychology Student Erinn Cameron Awarded Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in South Africa

2023-05-18T11:26:36-07:00

The HBNU program brings together a consortium that includes Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University, and University of New Mexico, in collaboration with 20 LMIC partner institutions Erinn Cameron, M.A., doctoral candidate Clinical Psychology student Erinn C. Cameron has been awarded a prestigious 2023-2024 Fogarty Global Health Fellowship with the HBNU (Harvard, Boston University, Northwestern, University of New Mexico) research consortium. She will be studying the effects of climate change on the mental health of pregnant women living with HIV in Western Cape, South Africa. Her research is funded by an NIH research fellow training grant. The HBNU Fogarty Global Health [...]

Psychology Student Erinn Cameron Awarded Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in South Africa2023-05-18T11:26:36-07:00

DEI Critical Conversations: AAPI Heritage Month

2023-05-18T06:58:06-07:00

Join VP of DEI Allison Davis White-Eyes, Ph.D., for a conversation with three prominent scholars who represent the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities about the new dimensions in the AAPI experience today. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 31, 2:30-3:30 p.m. PDT | 5:30-6:30 p.m. EDT via Zoom. The session will explore what organizations and institutions do to better support AAPI individuals and raise awareness of AAPI issues. The panelists include Fielding alum Kanthi Raja, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education at Oregon State University Dolly Bach Nguyen, Ph.D., and Joe Wahl, Founder and CEO of Wahl [...]

DEI Critical Conversations: AAPI Heritage Month2023-05-18T06:58:06-07:00

Alum & Public Trustee John L. Bennett, Ph.D., Named Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte

2023-05-11T12:01:19-07:00

Fielding alum and Public Trustee John L. Bennet, Ph.D. (HOD’2006) was recently named a Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte.  The Noble Fellowship is an endowed fellowship at Queens University of Charlotte, sponsored by Drs. Jerry Greenhoot and Kathryn Greenhoot, in honor of their teacher, Professor Noble Hines, whose life and values expressed the concept of “paying forward” long before it was defined elsewhere. His contributions were multiplied by the lives he influenced well beyond those people he knew or intended to assist. It is in this spirit that the Noble Fellowship was founded.  The goal of the Noble [...]

Alum & Public Trustee John L. Bennett, Ph.D., Named Noble Fellow at Queens University of Charlotte2023-05-11T12:01:19-07:00

What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership

2023-05-11T14:17:23-07:00

Fielding alum Dr. Lee Ann Avery recently published the chapter What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership in the book Leadership - Advancing Great Leaders and Leadership. The chapter and book are available for download from IntechOpen as part of the peer-reviewed open access volume collection. Lee Ann Avery, Ph.D. Dr. Avery's chapter What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership is a qualitative and exploratory study that examines how leadership is demonstrated in the context of offshore sailing through the sea stories of sailing captains’ experiences where there was potential for massive physical, psychological, or material consequences to the [...]

What Offshore Sailing Captains Teach Us about Leadership2023-05-11T14:17:23-07:00

Media Psychology Program Director Brian Cutler Contributes to The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law

2023-05-09T10:00:46-07:00

Psychology-law is a very diverse field that covers a wide range of topics from both experimental psychology and applied psychology. These broad areas are in turn made up of many subspecialties. However, despite the continued and rapid growth of the psychology-law field, there was no current comprehensive resource that provided coverage of the major topic areas until the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law. The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law offers a current, scholarly overview of psychology-law topics. The book's principal editors, Dr. David DeMatteo, JD, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Law [...]

Media Psychology Program Director Brian Cutler Contributes to The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law2023-05-09T10:00:46-07:00

Greater Good’s Editors Pick the Most Thought-Provoking Science Books of the Year

2023-05-08T17:15:06-07:00

U.C. Berkeley’s Science Center for the Greater Good picked Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth as among the most inspirational and thought-provoking science books of 2022. Restoring the Kinship Worldview The books editors and authors are faculty member, Wahinkpe Topa (“Four Arrows”) and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Emeritus, Darcia Narvaez. They use powerful quotes from noted Indigenous to introduce 28 Indigenous worldview precepts needed to re-balance our out-of-balance emphasis on contrasting dominant worldview precepts.  The Indigenous, kinship, nature worldview that guided humanity for most of its history is “not about domination or self-centeredness or anthropocentrism, but rather about [...]

Greater Good’s Editors Pick the Most Thought-Provoking Science Books of the Year2023-05-08T17:15:06-07:00

May 5th is MMIW Awareness Day. An interview with doctoral student and member of the Hualapai Tribe Amanda Abbie-Hall

2023-05-05T09:51:53-07:00

National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Awareness Day is May 5th. The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) declares the first week in May as a National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and the entire month of May as a time to recognize MMIW in North America. MMIW is also known as MMIWG2S for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit. Information on how to get involved is available at www.niwrc.org/mmiwnatlweek23. 4 out of 5 (80%) of our Native women experienced some form of violence in their lifetime. (1) Native women face murder [...]

May 5th is MMIW Awareness Day. An interview with doctoral student and member of the Hualapai Tribe Amanda Abbie-Hall2023-05-05T09:51:53-07:00

Black Women’s History Month – April Harris-Britt

2023-05-04T06:42:29-07:00

Black Women's History Month: April Harris Britt April Harris-Britt, Ph.D. April Harris-Britt, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and core faculty in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program who is a beloved colleague, faculty advisor, and course instructor. She is a powerful role model and mentor to women and especially African American students due to her visibility with her work with the American Psychological Association and as a highly respected clinician and researcher. She has also gone beyond as an exemplar of ultimate self-care and discipline. Dr. Harris-Britt is “all in” for her students and is a valuable colleague to [...]

Black Women’s History Month – April Harris-Britt2023-05-04T06:42:29-07:00

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