John Jung

Professor of Psychology Emeritus 

(562) 985-5001   Fax (562) 985-8004     e-mail: jrjung@csulb.edu

Department of Psychology 

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oResearch publications on alcohol use, social support, health psychology, and memory. 

oDirector of Career Opportunities in Research (COR), a mentoring program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health from 1981-2006, to recruit academically talented minority students into mental health research careers. 

oDirector of a related mentoring program at the high school level, Career Opportunities in Research and Education (CORET) funded by the National Institute of Mental Health from 1997-2006, to recruit academically talented minority students into college science majors. 

oFaculty Research Coordinator (1996-2002) for the McNair Scholars Program, funded by the U. S. Department of Education to mentor low-income students who are first in their families to attend college or come from underrepresented groups so they may pursue Ph.D. studies. 

oSelected to give a University Legacy Lecture, Exploring The Academic Maze,  Oct. 30, 2001.

oAuthor of seven psychology textbooks on memory, motivation, research ethics, research methodology, and the psychology of alcohol and other drugs.  Second Edition retitled as: Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior: Psychological Research Perspectives. Sage Publications, 2009 In press.

Reinventing Myself After Retirement in 2002:

Publish And Promote Your Own Books On A Shoestring See: Yin and Yang Press

o Southern Fried Rice, Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South (2005)

Excerpts are on a web site along with links to many sites dealing with Chinese American history: http://jrjung.tripod.com/

o Chinese Laundries: Tickets To Survival On Gold Mountain (2007)

o Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers (2008)

o Book Signing @ 2006 Who's Who Asian American Georgia Awards Gala, Omni Hotel

oKeynote Address at Who's Who in Asian American Communities in Georgia, 

“All I really needed to know, I learned in a Chinese laundry.” Atlanta, 3/29/06.

o2006 Asian American Studies Association, Atlanta.“19 Chinese Laundries of Fun Fai Lo in the Deep South”

o 2008 Asian American Studies Association, Chicago The John Jung Letters

oProgram Director. 2006-2008. Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (MRISP)

funded by the National Institute of Mental Health for 2006-2009 to mentor junior faculty for research career development.