Alva Hughes - Abridged Vita

Education:

• B.S. 1981 Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA 23005
• M.S. 1985 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
• Ph.D. 1988 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Honors and Awards:

• National Merit Scholar 1977
• National Science Foundation Junior Fellow 1977-1981
• Randolph-Macon Awards Scholar 1977-1981
• Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society 1980
• National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow 1981-1984
• Graduate Committee Minority Fellow, Univ. of MD 1986-1988
• Jack Bartlett Award, University of Maryland 1987 - Award given for excellence in dissertation design
• STEP Faculty Award, Manhattanville College 1991- Award given for teaching excellence in the science technology entry program. Program is designed to increase participation of minorities in science.
• Cragie Faculty Development Grant, Randolph-Macon College 1993
• Cragie Faculty Development Grant, Randolph-Macon College 1995
• RashkindFaculty Development Grant, Randolph-Macon College 1998
• Cragie Faculty Development Grant, Randolph-Macon College 2001
  

Work Experience:

• 1977 to 1981 Federal Junior Fellow, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Washington, D.C.
• 1981 to 1984 Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• 1984 to 1987 Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• 1986 Instructor in Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth
• 1988 to 1991 STEP Faculty, Manhattanville College White Plains, NY
• 1988 to 1991 Assistant Professor of Psychology Manhattanville College,
• 1991 to 1996 Assistant Professor of Psychology Randolph-Macon College,
• 1997 to present Associate Professor of Psychology Randolph-Macon College

Recent Presentations:

• Hughes, Alva & Weldon, Linda J. (2001) Who's your lifeline? Judgments of expertise in others. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC
• Ransone, Margaret & Hughes, Alva. (2001). The effect of parent/caregiver involvement on cognitive development in pre-kindergarten and first grade students. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
  
• Hughes, Alva. (2000) Cognitive Tales: Applying cognitive concepts to fiction. Poster presented at the Teaching Institute of the American Psychological Society, Miami, FL.
• Hughes, Alva, & Weldon, Linda J. (July, 1995). Expertise effects on memory for Star Trek Voyager. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
• Hughes, Alva. (April, 1996). The effect of reference and sense information on word learning in college students. Paper presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Nashville, TN.
• Hughes, Alva & Weldon, Linda, J. (1998). Freudian Clips: Freudian Clips: Teaching psychoanalytic concepts using Star Trek and Nova videos. Poster to be presented at the Teaching Institute of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.
• Klaaren, Kristen; Hughes, Alva & Lambert, Kelley (1998). The use of pop-quizzes in a general psychology course. Poster to be presented at the Teaching Institute of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.
• Berry, Alison & Hughes, Alva (1998). Observational learning in dogs. Paper to be presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Courses Taught:

• Adolescent Psychology
• Cognition and Culture
• Cognitive Psychology
• Departmental Honors
• Everyday Memory
• General Psychology
• Psychology of Language and Communication
• Research Methods in Psychology
• Senior Project (independent research with senior majors)
• Special Topics in Psychology (Applied Memory Topics)
• Systems and Contemporary Theories in Psychology