CSULB Department of Psychology
Highly Successful Alumni
Harvey Wichman earned the first Master's Degree awarded by the CSULB
Psychology department, and was, until he recently retired, a Professor at
Claremont Graduate School and Director of the Aerospace Psychology Lab which
studies manned space flight.
http://www.spacetransportation.org/library.htm
Adriana Alcantara is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the
University of Texas and a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the
APA Minority Fellowship Program in Neuroscience. Her work on the basal
ganglia has potential value for understanding disorders like Parkinson's
disease, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, OCD, and drug addiction.
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Faculty/Alcantara/Alcantara.html
James Alexander received a Master's degree at CSULB and his PhD from
Michigan State. Currently a Professor at the University of Utah, he developed a
major model of Family Therapy.
http://www.psych.utah.edu/alexander/alexander.html
Sonia Ancoli-Israel is a research psychologist at the San Diego V.A.
and Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. She is a world authority on
sleep disorders and author of All I Want is a Good Night's Sleep.
http://www.wfsrs.org/apss/symposium/sonia.html
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/ask/sleepandalzheimers.html
Victor Benassi received his PhD from City University of New York. A Professor
of Psychology, he is currently an Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow at the
University of New Hampshire.
http://www.unh.edu/psychology/fac_benassi.htm
Leann Birch is Head and Chair of the Department of Human Development
and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, and an authority on
children's eating preferences and disorders.
http://nutrition.hhdev.psu.edu/grad/faculty/birch.html
Brenna Chirby received her PsyD from the American School of
Professional Psychology in Virginia, and is a licensed Clinical Psychologist.
She is currently serving as the Director of Counseling Services at the
Art Institute of
Washington. She is also teaching full time in the doctoral program at
Argosy
University.
http://www.thestonehouse.ws/bchirby.htm
Stephen Edgell earned his PhD in Mathematical Psychology at Indiana
University, and is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the
University of Louisville.
http://www.louisville.edu/~seedge01/
Roger Fouts has seved as a Professor
of Psychology at Central Washington University, and is currently serving as
their Interim Director of University Research for the Office of Graduate
Studies, Research and Continuing Education.. He is a world authority on
chimpanzees and directs the
Washoe Project study of chimpanzee communication
with sign language. He authored
Next of Kin based on this
research.
http://www.cwu.edu/~masters/fouts.html
Christine Iijima Hall was Associate Provost at Arizona State
University. She recently became Director of Employee Services for Maricopa
Community College District in Phoenix. She is an authority on ethnic
relations, and has been a pioneer researcher on the psychology of people with
biracial backgrounds.
http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/edcetera/nr/060701_3.htm
Edward Hernandez is an Associate Professor of Management at CSU Stanislaus. He received his PhD from UC Irvine, and is currently working on research in the areas of Information Technology, Legal Issues in HRM and Temporary and Contract Worker studies. He is also interested in the business of musicals.
Alyce LaViolette is a recognized authority on battered women and an
activist against violence and author of It Can Happen to Anyone: Why
Battered Women Stay. She is also the founder of Alternatives to
Violence, located in the city of Long Beach.
http://www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2001/fall/diversions/v9n21-first.shtml
David Lechuga is the director of The Neurobehavioral Clinical and Counseling
Center located in Mission Viejo, CA. He earned his PhD at UCLA in Clinical
Psychology. He is the 2002 president of the Orange County Psychological Association, and
is a clinical instructor at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute/Hospital
in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
http://www.neuroclinic.com/MeetTheDoctors.html
Lola Lopes is currently serving as the Associate
Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. She earned her
PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~provost/about/lola.htm
Heike Mahler earned a Master's at Long Beach State and her PhD at UC
San Diego. She is a Professor
at CSU San Marcos. A health psychologist, she is associated with research
on skin cancer at UC San Diego.
http://www.cancer.ucsd.edu/summaries/hmahler.asp
Jelani Mandara is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, and
has recently completed his PhD at UC Riverside. His research interests
include family functioning, fathers' involvement and child development; theories of self-control
and self-regulation; person-centered methods.
http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/People/faculty/j_mandara.html
Brenda Premo was Director of the Department of Rehabilitation, State
of California prior to becoming Director of Western University's Center for
Disability Issues and the Health Professions.
http://www.westernu.edu/xp/edu/cdihp/foundingdirector.xml
Cynthia S. Rand obtained a CSULB Master's degree, and is a
Professor of
Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She is a
health psychologist with the School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins
University,
specializing in pulmonary disease, and affiliated with the
Global Project on Tobacco
Control.
http://www.jhsph.edu/test/IGTC_old/Staff_and_Affiliated_Faculty.html
Gloria Romero, Professor of Psychology at California State University,
Los Angeles, is a Democrat Assemblywoman in the California legislature,
representing District 24 in Los Angeles.
http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/romero/
Stephen F. Sands earned his MA and PhD in Biomedical Sciences at University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas.
He is an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso,
and is also the Chairman for NeuroScan, Inc.
http://www.utep.edu/psych/sands.html
Geraldine Butts Stahly received her MA and PhD at UC Riverside.
She is an Associate Professor at CSU San Bernardino, with research interests in Social psychology and psychology of women, domestic violence and victimology,
health psychology, chronic illness and stigma.
http://psychology.csusb.edu/faculty/gstahly/index.html
Suzanne C. Thompson obtained her MA at CSULB. She is
Professor
of Psychology at Pomona College and publishes research on stress, health, and
coping.
http://psych.pomona.edu/faculty/vita/thompsonvita.html
Jim Turner is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies at UCLA. He received his PhD from University of Missouri, and was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA for a number of years with research interests in placebo effects, the everyday lives of mentally retarded adults, and indigenous psychologies.
Heidi Ziemer is an Assistant Professor at the University of
Houston-Downtown, and is serving as the Assistant Chair for the Psychology
department. She received her MA and PhD at Rice University.
http://www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/humanities/sos/psychology.htm
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