Our Students / Alumni

The Department of Psychology coordinates activities to give students experience outside of the classroom:

Psychology Club

The Psychology Club addresses current issues in Psychology while providing opportunities for professional advancement within the discipline. For more information on Barry’s club contact Dr. Maria Lopez at mrlopez@mail.barry.edu or 305-899-3276.

Psi Chi

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purpose of promoting excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet the qualifications listed below for admission to Barry’s chapter. For more information about the national organization, visit www.psichi.org. For more information on Barry's chapter of the Honor Society, contact Dr. Michelle Major-Sanabria at mmajor@mail.barry.edu or 305-899-4575.

Undergraduate Psi Chi Qualifications:

• Completion of at least 3 semesters
• Completion of 9 semester hours of psychology at Barry
• Registration for a major or minor in psychology
• 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
• 3.0 minimum Psychology GPA (including MAT 152)
• Class rank in upper 35th percentile
• High standards of personal behavior

Graduate Psi Chi Qualifications:

• Completion of 18 credits which must include the following courses: PSY 507, PSY 564, PSY 625 and PSY 602
• 3.5 GPA with no “C” in any graduate course
• High standards of personal behavior

Graduate Association of Students in Psychology (GASP)

GASP is a graduate student association that represents and serves the graduate psychology students at Barry University. For mor information on GASP, contact Dr. Craig Rush at crush@mail.barry.edu or (305) 899-3272.

Alumni

Barry University's Alumni Association provides many benefits, discounts, services, and activities for the Barry community. For more information, go to www.barry.edu/alumni.

Danielle Budash (M.S. Clinical Psychology, 2003) is a  doctoral student in the  Combined-Integrated Psychology Program in Clinical and School Psychology at James Madison University. She is working on a dissertation involving crisis intervention/disaster intervention with children. She has recently traveled to India for a three-day conference on disaster interventions.  She also spent three weeks in the Dominican Republic on a service learning trip. She says, "I never would have thought this small town girl from West Virginia would be seeing the world!"

Leslie Naghib, B.S. 2005, is currently a language arts teacher at William H. Turner Tech High in Miami . She has just been selected as her school's Rookie Teacher of the Year. She will compete with other Rookies to be the Florida Rookie Teacher of the Year. She is also enrolled in Barry's Master of Arts program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She plans to travel the world teaching English before settling down and buying her own flower shop in Coral Gables .

Becket Lott '04 is a Dependency Case Manager for the Children's Home Society in Partnership with Kids' Central Inc. in Sumter County , Florida . She is also working toward her master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling at Webster University in Ocala .

Two classes, Psychology & Professional Development (PSY 264) and Experimental  Psychology (PSY 333) came together to hear Florence Taylor, Barry '03 give a guest lecture. Florence is a third year law student at the University of Florida . She spoke about how her work as a psychology major prepared her for the rigors of law school. She told the students that it was very important to take advantage of all the opportunities in our psychology program to do research with professors and to make oral presentations. She presented her own undergraduate research with Dr. Muscarella at a professional conference in Montreal .

Rebecca (Smith) Lockwood '02 visited recently with daughter Lexie and husband Paul. Rebecca took the opportunity to get together with her former women's basketball teammates. She is currently enrolled in a clinical Ph.D. program at Suffolk University , Boston .

Candela Bonaccorso, Barry M.S. in Clinical Psychology 2002 is completing her Psy. D. at The George Washington University . She is starting her pre-doctoral internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City , which was her first choice. She writes, "I was so happy! I wanted to share the great news with all of you-since my path to Bellevue began at Barry."