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A research report authored by associate professor Mathew Gendle and Elizabeth Olszewski '09 has been published in the Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

The Portland (Maine) Press-Herald profiled psychology major Elianna Lantz in a Jan. 6 story on her experience with the Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound program, which the newspaper described as "an 85-day semester hiking from the Pacific Coast to the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica."

Meredith Allison, assistant professor of psychology, has published a coauthored paper in the journal Gesture.

Six ������Ƶ students presented papers Nov. 21 at the 5th Annual State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium held at UNC Wilmington. Several ������Ƶ faculty mentors accompanied the students.

Research on ADHD in college students by associate professor of psychology Linda Wilmshurst and alumna Marella Peele has been published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

If you’re trying to convince a jury of your innocence, it may help to tell the truth about where you were at the time of a crime – especially if your story bubbles with juicy details, according to a paper by Kyla Mathews '09, an ������Ƶ alum who won the top prize for her research this summer in a national contest.

The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record reported Aug. 26 on work by associate professor Mat Gendle and his undergraduate researchers into the effects, or lack thereof, of the popular Red Bull energy drink.

If the maker of Big Red and Juicy Fruit thinks its chewing gums have a monopoly on boosting your memory, it should think again. New work by ������Ƶ faculty member Amy Overman and her undergraduate researchers show that gum itself isn’t special – any candy or oral activity probably works just as well at sharpening the mind.