Second-year graduate student, Mallory Kroeck, successfully defended her Graduate Thesis Proposal on October 16, 2018 before her thesis committee, department faculty, and fellow graduate students. The title of Ms. Kroeck’s thesis project is, “Pursuing the Neurology of Compassion: An eLORETA Analysis of the Compassion Circuit.” Data collection is underway and she is currently developing the MatLab/EEGLab/eLORETA data processing code to conduct a complex FFT Power Spectral and Current Source Density analysis of the neurological characteristics of blameworthy and careworthy… Read more
Student Accomplishments
Graduate Student Competes in Three-Minute Research Presentation Event
Patrick Doyle, a second-year graduate student in the Masters of Arts in Psychological Sciences program was a finalist in the Three-Minute Research Presentation competition hosted by the NAU Graduate College. Patrick was the first student from our program to compete in the event. His presentation showcased the findings of his thesis research on concussion reporting in collegiate football, which combined data scraping and computational methodology to model a cultural-level and its effect on the health of NCAA athletes. … Read more