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Conference Directors
SUPC was
founded, and continues to be run, entirely by undergraduate students at
Stanford University. A different Executive Director is selected each year.
These individuals perform their duties on a volunteer basis, out of their
devotion to psychology, and their interest in helping to facilitate
student networking, promote student development, and advance psychological
science.
Current Conference Director
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Peter Radu - Executive Director 2008
Peter Radu is a junior
at Stanford majoring in psychology. He is currently serving as the
president for the Psi Chi chapter at Stanford, and is the principal
investigator of an ongoing study examining the ability of
behavioral measures of impulsiveness to predict relapse in
individuals recovering from substance addiction. Peter is also
involved as a research assistant on a project exploring the facets
of therapeutic listening, a direct relationship to his interest in
the writings and theories of Carl Rogers. He hopes to pursue a PhD
in clinical psychology. When not in the lab or library, Peter plays
on the Stanford club hockey team and, in the fall, supports the
rapidly-improving Stanford football team. |
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Previous Conference Directors
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Lauren Anas - Executive Director 2007
Lauren graduated from the University of Oregon in 2004 with
a major in Psychology and a minor in Business. While at the
University of Oregon, she worked for a clinical lab investigating
the role that stressful life events play in the onset and
maintenance of major depressive disorder. While directing the
Conference, Lauren served as a research coordinator for the Stanford Mood and Anxiety
Disorders Lab, a position that she held for two years. In addition to psychology,
she enjoys reading and
spending time outdoors. |
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Carolina Gutierrez - Executive
Director 2006
Carolina is originally from Salinas, California, and was a
master's student at Stanford while serving as SUPC
Executive Director. She
also completed majors in both Psychology and German Cultural Studies, and
a minor in Ethics in Society, at Stanford. Previously, she worked as a Lecturer's Assistant for the Introduction to Psychology
course and helped with research in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Hoping to go to law school or a school of public
health, she was specifically interested in the intersection of
health/ medicine and race/ ethnicity/ culture. She worked for
Kaiser Family Foundation for over a year on issues related to
minority health policy. In her free time, she enjoys gossiping with
her sister, trying new foods, and Latin dancing. |
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Eva Chen -
Executive Director 2005
Eva Chen was a senior from Taiwan majoring in Psychology and
coterming in Sociology while serving as SUPC Executive Director. She
conducted research in the Tsai Culture and Emotion Lab since her
sophomore year, and worked on a Bing project looking at the
differences in affect valuation in preschool children. In the summer
before her senior year, she worked in the Boroditsky Cognation Lab,
looking how languages influence thought. Eva completed an Honor's
thesis on the relations between religion and emotion. She also
served as Director of Internal Affairs ('03-'04) and Director of
Programming & Events ('04-'05) for the Stanford Undergraduate
Psychology Association, and as the Financial Officer for the
Stanford Chapter of Psi Chi. In addition, she served as Associate
Director for SUPC 2004 and directed SUPC 2005. Eva hopes to go on
the graduate school in psychology and eventually return to Taiwan as
a professor. |
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Felicity Miao - Executive Director 2004
Felicity Miao, originally from Hong Kong, was the Lab Manager for Dr. Jeanne Tsai's Culture and Emotion Lab at Stanford University
while the Executive Director for SUPC. She had just recently graduated from Stanford with both a B.A. and M.A. in psychology. Her Honors and Master’s thesis explored the underlying mechanisms responsible for differences in affect valuation (ideal emotions) between Asian Americans and European Americans. During her four years as a student at Stanford, Felicity was a teaching assistant for several courses, and was awarded the Centential Teaching Assistant Award as well as the Departmental Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching. Felicity was also active in the department by serving as the President and Vice-President of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association, and as an Associate Director for the 3rd SUPC. In addition, she was a member of the Student Council for the Western Psychological Association (WPA)
in 2003-2004. |
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Michael Osofsky - Executive Director 2003
Michael Osofsky is originally from New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Stanford with a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology, and received both Departmental Honors and University Distinction, as well as several awards including the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research, the Dean’s Award for Academic Accomplishment and the James W. Lyons Award for Service. Michael was also selected in 2003 by USA Today to their ALL-USA First Academic Team as one of the top 20 college students nationwide for overall excellence in academics, leadership and extracurricular pursuits. During his four years at Stanford, Michael conducted research under the mentorship of Philip G. Zimbardo and Albert Bandura, involving more than 300 interviews with correctional officers who directly work with executions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In addition, he has given more than 15 professional presentations and has published
5 articles on his research. Michael was President, Vice-President, and Peer Advisor of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association, Co-President of the Stanford Chapter of Psi Chi, a two-time ASSU Undergraduate Senator, and a Director for the 1st and 2nd SUPC. |
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Sarah Mascarenas - Executive Director 2002
Sarah Mascarenas is originally from Tempe, AZ, and completed law
school at Yale after leaving Stanford. While pursuing her master's and bachelor's degrees in psychology at Stanford, she served as Co-President of Psi Chi, advised on the department's curriculum committee, and was a teaching assistant for several courses. Her academic research explored relationships between cortisol levels, rumination, and negative cognitive bias in major depressive disorder. As Executive Director of SUPC in 2002, she increased the conference's community outreach program, launching a high school psychology poster contest and giving guest lectures at local high schools. While Sarah maintains her love for psychology and her commitment to community affairs, her
current interests lie in the regulation and operation of financial markets. She is
looking forward to a career in investment banking and eventually hopes to launch her
own clothing line in Los Angeles. |
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George Slavich - Executive Director 2001 & Conference Founder
George Slavich
is originally from Santa Clara, CA, and is
currently a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of California, San Francisco.
While at Stanford, he earned a B.A. in psychology with honors, an
M.A. in psychology, and an M.A. in communication. He subsequently
received an M.S. his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of
Oregon, and was a clinical
psychology intern at McLean Hospital and a
clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School. In addition to his research, which
examines the characteristics, causes, and consequences of life
stress, George has been a long-time champion of student interests.
After founding
SUPC in 2001, he founded the Western Psychological Association
Student Council (in 2002) and helped found the Society of Clinical
Psychology's Section on Graduate Student and Early Career
Psychologists (in 2006). In
2004 he received the first ever Albert Bandura Graduate Research
Award, and in 2005 he received psychology's top honors for graduate
teaching (the McKeachie Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award)
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