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Submission Guidelines With more than 1,180 chapters, Psi Chi members can make a significant impact in their communities. Reviewing Chapter Activities in Eye on Psi Chi is a great way to find inspirational ideas for your chapter and keep in touch with your chapter after you graduate. Activities are listed in the following categories: • COMMUNITY SERVICE • CONVENTION/CONFERENCE • FUND-RAISING • INDUCTION CEREMONY • MEETING/SPEAKER EVENT • RECRUITMENT • SOCIAL EVENT Share your chapter’s accomplishments with others in the next issue of Eye on Psi Chi! Chapter officers and advisors are encouraged to visit www.psichi.org/ default.asp?page=chapter_activities Submission deadlines* Fall: June 30 Winter: September 30 Spring: December 15 Summer: February 28 Reports received (postmarked) after the deadline will appear in the next issue of Eye on Psi Chi.

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East Albright College (PA)

MEETING/SPEAKER EVENT: The

chapter organized and advertised for an informational session open to all members of the Albright community but specifically targeted to students interested in attending graduate study in a psychology-related field. Three psychology faculty (Drs. Keith Feigenson, Bridget Hearon, and Julia Heberle) discussed strategies and advice for what to expect when applying to different psychology programs. The event lasted over an hour and was attended by more than 20 students.

FUND-RAISER: Throughout the last

three weeks of the fall semester, members sat in the college commons area for hour-long shifts to try and raise cash donations. A GoFundMe link was shared on the chapter’s Facebook pages and members’ personal social media. Members publicized the event to families and by word of mouth to other students. In a short amount of time, the chapter raised enough to send 10 care packages out for Christmas. Plans are already in place for next year with an increased goal of 30 packages and to also send handmade Christmas cards.

MEETING/SPEAKER EVENT: The chapter

sponsored a talk by Dr. Judith Grinspan (biology, research professor of neurology, Mahoney Institute for Neurological ABBREVIATIONS ACHS APA APS EPA MPA NEPA RMPA SEPA SWPA WPA

Science, University of Pennsylvania) open to the entire Albright community. Dr. Grinspan spoke to around 50 students about her research studying the importance of myelination in health and disease, and some of the more cuttingedge advances in the field. Buffalo State College, SUNY

CONVENTION/CONFERENCE: Eight

members presented their research studies at the first annual Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference, held April 19, 2020, which was moved to an online setting. Members’ experiments examined the effects of repetition on jury decisions; relations between screen time on social media and mental well-being; the relation between salivary alpha amylase and identifying as a stress eater; predictors of love of learning, anxiety, and college grades; and memory for song lyrics. The chapter’s coadvisors also served as judges for best poster awards. INDUCTION CEREMONY: On May 15, 2020, the chapter welcomed 15 members and recognized meritorious members at their virtual induction ceremony celebration on Zoom. They also honored 17 graduating seniors, who received honor cords underwritten by the psychology department and a celebratory Psi Chi balloon in a mailed package. Family, friends, and faculty congratulated the students on their terrific achievements and resilience.

Eastern University (PA)

COMMUNITY SERVICE: In February,

the chapter hosted an event featuring a discussion about senior adult mental health issues and a Valentine’s cardmaking activity for a local senior center. The event was facilitated by Psi Chi officers and attended by chapter members and other psychology department students.

COMMUNITY SERVICE: In November,

the chapter organized a group to volunteer at the Special Olympics held at Villanova University. Psi Chi officers, members, and psychology department students volunteered together. Fordham University at Lincoln Center (NY) MEETING/SPEAKER EVENT: The chapter had another active spring semester in 2020, with eight diverse activities with Fordham Psychology Association and Graduate Schools of Education and Social Service. The first of these eight was a January 31 law psychology tour of the Bronx Criminal Court—with Officer Veatrice Mangham and Detectives Lionel Holman and Tony Telesco. On February 11, the D’Allesandro family (Rosemarie, John, Michael) spoke about their work on “protecting our children” and how they started the Joan D’Allesandro Foundation after seven-year-old Joan was murdered by a neighbor in 1973. On February 21, the chapter hosted the 10th Fordham Forum on Forensic Psychology, featuring a

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Upper left: Buffalo State College, SUNY member Kristin Czajka’s virtual poster at the first annual Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference. Upper right: Fordham University at Lincoln Center (NY) participates in a law-psychology tour of the Bronx Criminal Court. Lower left: On February 21, the Fordham University at Lincoln Center (NY) Chapter hosted the 10th Fordham Forum on Forensic Psychology. Lower right: A forum on “protecting our children” with the Fordham University at Lincoln Center (NY) Chapter.

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