Psi Chi

 

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 in order to promote excellence in scholarship and further the science of psychology. There are over 1,000 chapters of Psi Chi at senior colleges and universities in the USA and Canada. The National Psi Chi Office is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is run by elected psychologists who are also Psi Chi members. The BU chapter was founded on April 10, 1953. The goals of Psi Chi are to provide academic recognition to its members and offer an atmosphere compatible to members' creative development.

 

Benefits of Membership:

  • Contacts and references.

  • Resume building.

  • Opportunities are available to members for promoting research, recognition, and meeting and interacting with leaders in their field. 

  • The US government considers membership in Psi Chi as one of the qualifications for entrance at the GS-7 level in the Federal Services.

 

Distinguished Members: Albert Bandura, Elizabeth Loftus, B. F. Skinner, Philip Zimbardo, among many others.

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E-Board 2007-2008

 

President: Lauren DeMerchant
Vice President: Ashley Kronen
Treasurer: Jalem Peguero
Secretary: Corey Smetana
Public Relations: Colleen Decker
Membership Coordinator: Kamala Smith
Academic Opportunities Officer: Jamie Im

 

 

Psi Chi is located in Room 114 in the Psychology Department at 64 Cummington Street

Contact us at: psichi@bu.edu.

 


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