Through selected memory research conducted with undergraduate students, Dr. James Rafferty, professor of psychology at Bemidji State University, will highlight original undergraduate psychology research developed at BSU as part of the university’s Honors Council Lecture Series.

Rafferty’s presentation, “Reminiscence(s),” will be held April 13 at 7 p.m. in the upper Hobson Memorial Union’s Crying Wolf Room. Honors Council Lectures are open to everyone free of charge.

Rafferty, who has nearly a half-century of experience in the field of psychology, will discuss changes in the field, with particular emphasis on the rise of cognitive psychology. His lecture will include his experiences as an undergraduate and graduate student at UCLA in the late 1960s to mid-1970s and his tenure as a BSU faculty member, which began in 1976.

Rafferty’s lecture will be available live on LiveStream (free account required).

About Dr. James Rafferty
Dr. James Rafferty is a professor of psychology at BSU. Rafferty will be retiring in May after nearly 40 years on the university’s faculty, having joined the BSU campus community in 1976. Rafferty, who lists cognition and memory as his primary research interests, is a two-time winner of BSU’s Distinguished Teaching Award. While at BSU he has chaired the Department of Psychology and served as the university’s academic computing coordinator.

Rafferty has been a statistical and research consultant and program evaluator for more than two dozen projects in the Bemidji region. He has supervised more than 80 student presentations at the annual Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference and has made 13 regional and national conference presentations with undergraduate student co-authors.

Rafferty earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from UCLA.

About the Honors Council Lecture Series
The Honors Council Lecture Series is hosted by the Bemidji State University Honors Council. The council is the advisory group to the honors program composed of 12 faculty members representing each of the university’s colleges. Student representatives are also elected to the council by their cohorts for one-year terms.

Contacts
• Kari Caughey, BSU honors program
• Dr. James Rafferty, professor of psychology

Bemidji State University, located in northern Minnesota’s lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling nearly 5,000 students, Bemidji State offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. BSU is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and has a faculty and staff of more than 550. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multi-cultural understanding.