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The Department of Psychological Sciences received the NAU award for at the President\u2019s Annual Award Recognition Ceremony on April 26, 2017.\u00a0 According to the Center for International Education\u2019s website, \u201cthis award recognizes exceptional work done by departments in developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy that infuses global learning throughout the discipline.\u201d \u00a0Although the department has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-study-abroad","tag-global-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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at the President\u2019s Annual Award Recognition Ceremony on April 26, 2017.\u00a0 According to the Center for International Education\u2019s website, \u201cthis award recognizes exceptional work done by departments in developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy that infuses global learning throughout the discipline.\u201d \u00a0Although the department has a long history of involvement with international education and research, it was recognized, in particular, for its Psychology Scholar and Teaching Exchange Program (PsySTEP). This program is a collaboration between NAU and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands through which students in the Master of Arts in Psychological Sciences program study abroad for a semester while continuing their graduate education.\u00a0 In addition to taking classes, students are matched with professors in their specialty areas to conduct research.\u00a0 The collaborative effort supports faculty from NAU teaching courses at the University of Groningen, as well.\u00a0 Drs. Dunbar and Till have taught abroad as part of this program.\u00a0 Most recently, graduate student Taylor West conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Brian Ostafin at the University of Groningen.\u00a0 She assisted in a project investigating the capacity of \u201cmindfulness,\u201d meaning in life, and the emotion of awe interventions to reshape predispositions to engage in habitual thoughts and behaviors and returned to the NAU in time to successfully defend her thesis and graduate with her cohort.<\/p>\n