Graduate Students
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Current Graduate Students
Jo Alanis
4th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Nathan Baker
3rd Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Caitlin Q. Briggs
6th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Connor Eichenauer
4th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Emily Gerkin
1st Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Daniel Griffin
5th Year PhD student Organizational Psychology
Jordan Holmes
1st Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Sarah Kuang
5th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Joie Magalona
1st Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Sergio Marquez
6th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Joshua Pearman
1st Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Rachel Pyram
3rd Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
William Scott
3rd Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Ajay Somaraju
5th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Jenna Van Fossen
5th Year PhD Student Organizational Psychology
Internship Highlights
Jo Alanis is interning with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Alexandria, VA as an I-O Psychology Research Intern.
"As an intern on the Assessment, Development, and Evaluation team, I am working on developing items for various assessments, crafting surveys for diversity & inclusion initiatives, and leading focus groups & feedback sessions with different organizational stakeholders."
Caitlin Briggs is a Research Science Intern in Talent Assessment for Amazon.
“I am working on a small team that investigates research questions regarding selection and assessment at Amazon and regularly meets with leadership to present and discuss the implications of our findings for the organization at large. I own two projects that focus on improving the interview process and will present my findings to leadership at the end of the summer.”
Connor Eichenauer is a Talent Assesments Strategist for Honeywell.
"At Honeywell, I’m working within the Talent Assessments team to build, implement, and maintain a portfolio of assessments for both selection and development purposes. Example projects include validating and deploying executive selection assessments, standing up executive and high potential leadership development assessment programs, developing tools that provide onboarding tips based on assessment results, and creating interview guides and interview training programs."
Jenna Van Fossen is a visiting research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Germany.
"I’ll be teaching a course on international human resource management at the university, which is especially exciting because the class is taken by a lot of international students. I also received a small amount of funding through MSU to study relationships between cultural values and change in students’ attitudes and outcomes related to virtual learning, and I’ll be working on a book chapter on AI and trust with Sandy and Guido Hertel, a professor at another university in Münster."