Tim Kasser
Professor and Chair of Psychology
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401-4999
309-341-7283
E-mail: tkasser@knox.edu
Among the positions held by the current Knox alumni who majored in psychology are the following: 
Law Professor, Georgetown School of Law, Washington, D.C. Former White House Chief of Staff. John Podesta '71. (pictured at right)
Assistant Professor in Psychology and NeuroScience Program, Williams College. Winner of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship at Duke University. Noah Sandstrom '94.
National Director, Parent Training Programs, Father Flanagan's Boys Home, Boys Town, Nebraska, and author of "Common Sense Parenting." Raymond V. Burke, Jr. '77.
Industrial/Organizational Psychologist,Sears, Roebuck & Co., Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Mandy Bolinger '98.Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Ginger Pennington '97.
Research Fellow, World Commission on Dams, Cape Town, South Africa. Chaminda Rajapakse '96.
Child and Family Therapist, Kenneth Young Center, Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Julie Giers, '93.
Apprentice,Production Manager, Steppenwolf Theatre Production, Chicago, Illinois. Heather Courtney '06. Theatre and Psychology major.
Speech Therapist, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Girija Gullapalli '91.
Clinical Psychologist,Chicago. Gretchen Larson Skoog '88.
Freelance Editor, Needham, Massachusetts. Sheila E. McIntosh '82.
Assistant Vice President of Marketing, Old Kent Financial Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Meribeth A. Nudelman '80.Executive Director, Morgan Stanley International, London, England. Mariko Mochizuki '77.
Intern,Young Life, Jasper, Georgia. Sarah Brookings '06.
Research Specialist, Rollins Medical Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Christine M. Engels '89.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Amy Work Needham '87.
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Classics, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas. Stephanie Clark '06. Classics and Psychology major.Intern,Howard Brown Research Center, Chicago, Illinois. Alisha Oscharoff '07.
Assistant Vice President of Marketing, Old Kent Financial Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Meribeth A. Nudelman, '80.
Vice President of Real Estate Finance,Credit Suisse First Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. Edward C. Petti '86.
Graduate Student,Ed.S in School Psychology, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Illinois. Kristin Geary '06.Self-Employed Psychotherapist, Chicago. Starla R. Sholl '85.
Graduate Student,Master of Social Work, Arizona State University, Glendale, Arizona. Constance Halonen '06.CEO, Wellborne Behavioral Health, Redmond, Washington. Eugene
F. Suksi '81.
Like many Knox College students, Steve Galdek is fond of the squirrels wandering around campus. His research project is enabling him to learn more about their winter-survival strategies.
Knox College scored among the top five liberal arts colleges in its region, in the 2011 Association for Computing Machinery Intercollegiate Programming Contest. Knox sent three teams to the expanding regional competition.
Knox College senior Lauren Smith, recipient of a 2011 Student Laureate Award from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, talks about her research, classes and extracurricular activities.
When you see the living conditions some people in the world face, it's very sobering. And when you see how happy they are, it's wonderful and very moving. I am Tim
Kasser, Professor of Psychology, and...
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