Life after Trinity
We have heard from several recent graduates. Let us know what you are doing and we will add your information to this page. News of our psychology alumni is listed by class year, starting with the most recent. Contact us!
Bobbi Oldfield (2001) was recently accepted to the Psy.D. program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology where she will begin her studies in September. Bobbi has been working in New York as a researcher in clinical immunology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Email her at bobbi_oldfield@hotmail.com.
Laura Vangsness (2000) finished her work as Research Coodinator at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, and has started the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at Rutgers for fall. Laura writes: "I'll be working with two prominent community psychologists, Maurice Elias and Brenna Bry. Both work with at-risk youth and their families in several of the economically depressed schools north of Rutgers. She has recently had several papers published! Here are the citations:
Goebel-Fabrri, A.E., Fikkan, J., Connell, A., Vangsness, L., & Anderson, B.J. (2002). Identification and treatment of eating disorders in women with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Treatments in Endocrinology, 3, 155-162.
Anderson, B.J., Vangsness, L., Connell, A., Goebel-Fabbri, A., Laffel, L.M.B. (2002). Family conflict, adherence, and glycaemic control in youth with short duration type 1 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine, 19, 635-642.
Suzanne Fallon (2000) is a graduate student at the Universtiy of California School of Nursing. Email: suzanne.fallon.2000@trincoll.edu. She writes: "I'm getting my Masters in Nursing - studying to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and loving every minute of it! Everyday I learn more and more how valuable my background in psychology is to my future in my chosen career path!"
Leslie Loventhal (2000) is Associate Producer, and website content developer for Classwell Learning Group in Brookline, MA. Email: lloventh@yahoo.com.
Jamie L. Roseman (1999) After 5 years in Boston doing reproductive rights work, I recently relocated to New York City. I'm currently the Assistant Director of National Leadership at the Anti-Defamation League. I'm responsible for national conference planning as well as directing the Missions program which allows for a lot of international travel! You can e-mail me at jamieroseman@hotmail.com.
Nora A. Murphy (1996) has completed her PhD and is now a visiting professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Florida. Her web site is http://www.psych.ufl.edu/%7Emurphy/.
Tammy Nicol (1996) (Email: nicol@cogsci.jhu.edu) writes "... from Johns Hopkins, where I'm in the Department of Cognitive Science. My first year research is in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition, and next year I plan to focus on psychology and language acquisition. I am really enjoying the program, particularly the interdisciplinary approach. Thanks to everyone at Trinity to getting me interested in so many different areas!"
Natalie Walders (1994) writes, "I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. I graduated from Case Western Reserve University after completing internship at Brown in May 2002 with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. My research emphasis is in pediatric psychology and I am doing clinical work at Hasbro Children's Hospital. Email Natalie at nwalders@lifespan.org.
Mary Jo Puglisi Vasquez (1992) received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and finished her internship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was on families of children with HIV/AIDS or cancer. She writes that she has done a good deal of research at National Cancer Institute/NIH with trauma & the familial adjustment to a child's chronic illness/HIV. Email her at maryjopv@hotmail.com.
Cyndy Nahabedian Mamalian (1992) is living in Rockville, MD with her husband and daughter, Alex. She finished her Ph.D. in criminal justice from UMDNJ in May, and is now doing some part time consulting from home.
Leonard J. Smart, Jr. (Jay) (1992) (Email: smartlj@muohio.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Miami University in Ohio. Jay writes that he is "teaching various courses, doing research in adaptation, orientation, and motion sickness - missing CT pizza!" He recently received tenure. His web site is http://www.units.muohio.edu/psychology/people/smartlj.html
Alyssa Purbeck Greer (1989) writes, "I am a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. I am currently on my predoctoral internship at the North Chicago VA Medical Center in North Chicago, IL. Hopefully I will defend my dissertation before internship is over and finally get my Ph.D. I have had my Masters since 1997 and have been working as a behavior therapist in an intensive partial hospitalization program for OCD since then as well as in a private practice specializing in anxiety disorders. My dissertation study is looking at whether significant changes in OCD-related dysfunctional beliefs occur during intensive CBT of OCD, and how they are related to symptom reduction. Other areas of research involvement currently include quality of life in OCD patients, and OCD subtypes. Email Alyssa at Alyssa.Greer@med.va.gov.
Jen Hall (1989) is now an assistant professor at Eckerd College. "As a Psychology major at Trinity College, I had the opportunity to be meaningfully involved in several faculty research projects, learning skills that proved invaluable to me as I pursued a degree in graduate school. Now, as a Psychology professor myself, I appreciate even more the strengths of Trinity's Psychology program and the opportunities it offers to its students."
Eva Marie Perugini (1988) now a clinical psychologist in private practice in Connecticut, writes that, "as a graduate student at a large state university, I came to fully appreciate the many opportunities and years of study I enjoyed at Trinity. Research opportunities, both on-campus and in conjunction with area facilities, prepared me for study in psychology at the graduate level. I also took full advantage of Trinity's Open Semester program and received full credit for being a researcher and apprentice teacher full-time for six months at the University of California at San Diego. The dedication of the Trinity faculty to teaching and mentoring made the field of psychology accessible to me as an undergraduate student."
Elissa Perry (1987) a professor at the University of Illinois, looks back at her decision to major in Psychology at Trinity as "a very good one." She writes, "I attribute my acceptance and success in the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University to the strong Psychology Department faculty at Trinity College and a program that provided me with the opportunity to conduct a senior thesis. This experience was critical to my development as a scholar." Her senior honors thesis at Trinity played a pivotal role in her acceptance to the Ph.D. program, she says.
Karen Kahn Wilson (1973)
has been a clinical psychologist, executive coach and consultant for over twenty five years. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Virginia after doing her internship at Ohio State University. Karen began working in private practice in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio and continued her work in the Washington, D.C. area when she moved in 1983. She has a book, titled Transformational Divorce, published by New Harbinger.