Entries Tagged as ‘Behavioral and Social Sciences’

October 8, 2009

New Faculty Joins Arts and Sciences

This year, new faculty joins the College of Arts and Sciences.  Professor Jeff Ringer, Dr. Wendy Steinberg, and Professor Alan Wheeler are new additions in the English, Psychology, and Anthropology discipline respectively.  
Professor Jeff Ringer is a Lee alum finishing his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition through the University of New Hampshire while teaching here [...]

September 29, 2009

Students Participate in Summer Archaeology Dig

This past July, nine Lee University students participated in the survey and excavation of an important historical site in eastern Tennessee.  Each summer for the past three years, anthropology professor Dr. Richard Jones, and Quentin Bass, Archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service, have teamed up to teach the Archaeology Field Methods course as an archaeology [...]

September 3, 2009

Summer Trips Successful

This past summer, thirteen trips from various departments inside the College of Arts and Sciences participated in a cross-cultural experience.  Dr. Jeffrey Sargent co-led the third annual Psychology trip to Europe with Dr. Heather Quagliana.  Twenty-nine students visited Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, and were able to see the salt mines of Germany, visit Freud’s office, and [...]

November 21, 2008

Play Therapy Center Featured in Chattanooga Times Free Press

Lee University’s play therapy center, directed by Trevor Milliron, was recently featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The program has now been in existence for twelve years, and has met a good deal of success recently.
Play therapy may be used to help children who appear to be reacting to abuse, dealing with attention [...]