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