Introduction
Through an endowment to the Department and College, Dr. Donald L. Tollefson provided support for a number of academic enhancements to the department's offerings. The Lectureship is one of those. Twice yearly nationally known researchers in various areas of psychological science will share their work with the college community and meet with interested students in classes and individually.
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Lectures
Dr. Louis Burgio
(
November, 2006)
Dr. Burgio was on campus November 2 and 3, 2006. A 1976 graduate of the college, at the time of his lecture Dr. Burgio was Distinguished University Research Professor and Director of the Center for Mental Health and Aging at the University of Alabama. His talk dealt with caretaking of Alzheimer patients. He shared information from his own research and that of a national consortium of researchers.
BurgioVideo
Dr. Ronald Kastelein
(
February, 2007)
Dr. Kastelein is the director of the Sea Mammal Research Company in Harderwijk, Netherlands. He has devoted his life to the scientific study of marine mammals and to promoting their conservation. His Tollefson lecture at Canisius focused on the ways in which his scientific findings could be used to decrease the frequency with which porpoises become entangled in fishing nets.
KasteleinVideo
Dr. Teresa M. Amabile
(
November, 2007)
A 1972 graduate of the college, Dr. Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and Co-Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Dr. Amabile received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1977.
AmabileVideo
Dr. William Bukowski
(
April, 2008)
Dr. Bill Bukowski, a 1976 Psychology graduate of Canisius College, is a Professor and University Research Chair in the Department of Psychology of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Bukowski's research is focused on school-age chilrdren's experiences with their peers. On April 24, 2008, he spoke to a Canisius audience on the topic of how children's peers help and hinder during the early adolescent years.
BukowskiVideo