Following are some special activities of students while undergraduates in the Psychology Department at Bemidji State University.

2001 - Current
A number of students have served as program evaluators for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Watershed Grant awarded to the Headwaters Science Center in Bemidji . The project works with 7th and 8th grade teachers and students to provide curriculum and increase understanding of water related issues. The project is also intended to inform the local communities which it serves (the Bagley, Bemidji , Blackduck, Cass Lake/Bena, and Red Lake school districts). Jason Douglas and Justin Arneson were involved in the development of the evaluation plan and survey design. They compiled, analyzed, and reported these data to the Science Center . Tracy Brown continued this work in 2003-2004, Erin Vanderwerf in 2004, Micah Skindelien in 2005, and Greg Nolan is currently providing this support to the program. If this sounds interesting, contact their faculty supervisor, Dr. Rafferty.

2003
Jen Mayer worked with high school students preparing projects for the regional Science Fair held at BSU. She assisted them in research design, statistical analysis, and presentation of results. The students were award winners and went on to national competitions. If this sounds interesting, contact her faculty supervisor, Dr. Rafferty.

2002 - 2003
Mark Asmus and Nick Zika assisted the BSU Education Department in an evaluation of students' perceptions of knowledge related to different educational standards. Mark and Nick organized survey data (collected from the internet) and analyzied the data for presentation to the Education Department. If this sounds interesting, contact their faculty supervisor, Dr. Rafferty.

2002 - Summer
Justin Arneson participated in a summer internship at Yale University through the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Internship Program. He worked in the Cognition and Development Lab in the Department of Psychology. He worked with a second year graduate student at Yale on research involving the types of teleological explanations that children apply to biological entities, artifacts, and natural kinds. If this sounds interesting, check out the listing of possible summer opportunities.