by Patrick | Apr 15, 2025 | Faculty
In this semester’s final episode of the Office Hours podcast Alex talks with Dr. Melissa Meade, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Huron. They dig into Dr. Meade’s background in the arts and the beauty that can emerge when combining interests from different areas. In Dr. Meade’s case, she discusses how her background in the arts and her own personal experiences of creating art influenced the types of questions she initially asked surrounding the act of drawing and how it might help to benefit memory performance in general and its influences on biological processes such as those associated with aging and cognitive decline.
by Patrick | Mar 26, 2025 | Students
Have you ever wondered what’s going on over in the Psych department at Huron? Today’s episode gives you a pretty good introduction to student life and the many research possibilities open to psychology students at Huron University. In the midst of wrapping up their own honors thesis, Alex sits down with two colleagues—Eden Brown and Katelyn Matsumoto—to discuss the specific projects and opportunities they’ve been involved in during their time here—with some hints on how one might also pursue similar possibilities—and reflect on the cumulative, intrinsic value of their undergraduate experiences.
by Patrick | Mar 11, 2025 | Faculty
Dr Vanderheide’s research journey attests to his commitment to lifelong learning. He shares with Emilee how he began his studies with an undergraduate degree in psychology, but becoming enraptured with reading towards the end of that degree set him along an alternative research journey: from 19th-century American literature to 20th-centiry American literary/cultural production in general and the profound impacts that mass and digital technologies have had and continue to have on artistic production.
by Patrick | Feb 24, 2025 | Students
In our inaugural episode of Office Hours: Student Spotlight Madison asks Brianne Machan about several different projects that she’s been involved in. The number and variety of these extracurricular, experiential learning opportunities speak not only to Brianne’s passion for history, archives, and research, but also the many possibilities available to students at Huron University who are willing to “make opportunities” come their way, as Brianne put it. She notes how conversations have a way of building into opportunities and as an example points out how her letterpress position started with volunteering to be a residence ambassador.
by Patrick | Feb 10, 2025 | Faculty
What does deviance theory have to do with the literature of early Christianity? What’s Q—no, not the far-right political movement, QAnon, or Q from the James Bond movies … . “Q,” as in Quelle, or Logienquelle—and what does it have to do with the synoptic problem? What’s the value of independent, undergraduate research to contemporary liberal arts education? How does one balance research, teaching, and administrative duties?
Tune in and listen to the conversation between Madison and Dr Dan Smith to get his thoughts on these topics and, in the process, learn more about Huron’s new Vice President, Academic!
