Tools for Success – The 2013 Schedule of Events

Want to make sure you remember an event? Set a reminder on your phone using our mobile app (download Guidebook at http://guidebook.com/getit and then search schools for SJSU. Download the Ultimate Spartan Guide and you will see an icon for Fall Welcome Days or download the Get INvolved Guide and find the Fall Welcome Days calendar within the Orientation and Transition folder.

You can also view and register for many of these events at http://events.sjsu.edu/

Not sure where everything is on campus? Check out a campus map!

“Come Together!” Third Annual Family, Friends and First-Generation College Students Evening

Thursday, August 22nd
6:30pm-8:00pm (please RSVP at http://www.sjsu.edu/counseling/students/First_Generation_College_Students/)
Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Room 225/229

“Come Together!” Third Annual Family, Friends and First-Generation College Students Evening is a welcoming and fun opportunity for students, family members, friends, peers, and supportive SJSU staff and faculty members to enjoy good food and company, discuss the college experience and increase sources of support for academic success.

Presented by Division of Student Affairs, Counseling Services, and MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center

Passport to Success @ SJSU

Tuesday, August 27th
11:00am-2:00pm
Boccardo Business Complex 032

Explore creative learning experiences while enjoying a quick lunch. See some fun educational videos and posters created by students in courses that include travel abroad, consulting for a local community or multi-national organizations, or pitching an entrepreneurial venture. Join team and leadership activities and learn about exceptional interdisciplinary programs.

Presented by the College of Business

Peer Connections Carnival

Tuesday, August 27th
3:00pm-4:30pm
Smith Carlos Lawn

Want to kick up your college game, but you’re not sure where to turn? We have the answers you’re looking for, including how to balance your time, take notes, or get involved! Play games, meet Peer Connections mentors and tutors, and discover resources on campus that your never knew existed.

Presented by Peer Connections

Student Health Center Open House

Wednesday, August 28th
10:00am-2:00pm
Outside the Health Center

The Student Health Center Open House will link students to vital health services through interactive games. Come meet the Health Center staff and get your questions answered. Know where to get free condoms, a chair massage, and excellent health & wellness care.

Presented by Student Health Center

Student Organization Fair

Wednesday, August 28th
11:00am-2:00pm
Tower Lawn

As an opportunity to get involved at SJSU, the Fall Org Fair is a “must do” annual tradition. Organizations have a chance to recruit new members and showcase their activities, while students can explore ways to get involved and add more fun to their SJSU experience. The event is free and open to the entire SJSU student community! Don’t miss it!

Presented by Student Involvement

MOSAIC Open House

Wednesday, August 28th
12:00pm-3:00pm
MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center (Module A)

The MOSAIC Open House is for students and families to come and learn about MOSAIC while mingling with current students, staff, and faculty. Learn how to get involved with MOSAIC. There will be food and prizes.

Presented by MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center

Social Justice BBQ

Wednesday, August 28th
3:00pm
Associated Students Rec Lawn

Be the change. Learn about ways that you can get involved: from community service to leadership, advocacy and activism. Learn about social justice and ways you can make a difference in San José.

Presented by AS César Chávez Community Action Center

Spartan Squad Kick-Off

Wednesday, August 28th
6:00pm
Campus Village Quad

The Annual Spartan Squad Kick-Off will be celebrating the first home football game of the 2013 season. Spartan Squad will be handing out their coveted Spartan Squad shirts and will help SJSU students prep for the game! Be on the look out for other great prizes and activities!

Presented by Associated Students

Career Center Open House

Thursday, August 29th 1:00pm-3:00pm Administration Building Room #154

Need a job? Access opportunities to earn money or to prepare for your career! We welcome all students to visit the Career Center to learn more about our services and events. Come in to activate or update your SpartaJOBS account to begin applying to jobs NOW!

Presented by Career Center

Healthy Tailgate

Thursday, August 29th
3:00pm
Fan Fiesta Tailgating Area

Come tailgate for the first home football game! Play the “Wellness Super Bowl” with Peer Health Educators and the LGBT Center to get FREE FOOD! Find us in the Fan Fiesta tailgating area under the blue tent.

Presented by Student Health Center-Wellness and Health Promotion & LGBT Resource Center

First Home Football Game of the 2013 Season

Thursday, August 29th
6:00pm
Spartan Stadium

Come Support your 2012 Military Bowl Champion Spartan Football team as they take on the Sac State Hornets in the home opener on Thursday night. Start the year off right! Spartan Up!

Presented by Athletics

SJSU Frosh Service Day

Saturday, August 31st
10:00am-12:30pm
Location: Veggielution
647 S. King Road. San Jose, CA 95116

(If you need transportation please meet at the AS House by 9:15am with your Tower ID and VTA sticker)
Want to start the semester on a positive note? Join us for a community service project. Meet new people and feel good about supporting others. Everyone can make a difference, because everyone can serve.

Presented by AS César Chávez Community Action Center

Community Connections Fair

Wednesday, September 4th
10:00am-2:00pm
San Carlos Quad

The 9th Annual Community Connections Fair allows all SJSU students the opportunity to know the services offered by non-profit organizations and ways in which they can volunteer and be involved in service-learning.

Presented by Center for Community Learning & Leadership

Stress Less for Success

Wednesday, September 4th
3:00pm- 5:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Room 225/229

College can be exciting but it can also be stressful because of all the different things students have to balance in their lives. Come to this fair and participate in several interactive stations to learn how you can stress less for success. There will be free food and giveaways available!

Presented by Counseling Services

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Welcome Reception

Thursday, September 5th 4:00pm-6:00pm Umunhum Room, Student Union

Join us for an exciting community event where there will be plenty of opportunities to see old friends and make new ones. This is your opportunity to meet and connect with the SJSU LGBT Community. All SJSU students, staff, and faculty are welcome! Door Prizes! Light refreshments will be served.

Presented by LGBT Resource Center

MOSAIC Open Mic

Thursday, September 5th
5:00pm -7:00pm
Café Pomegranate

This event is an open MIC space where students and community members are welcome to share their talents; whether that is spoken word, poetry, song, instrument, comedy, etc. A great place to hang out and support our local performers!

Presented by MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center

Engage: New Student Leadership Immersion Experience

September 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th
5:30 pm
Location: TBD, Please apply for this program at the link below

Who is a leader? What does it mean to lead? The term leadership gets used all of the time, but have you ever stopped to think about what it actually means to you? Over the course of the seminar you will engage fully in an exploration about what YOU believe leadership to be. This interactive experience will give you greater awareness of leadership as theory and in practice. Open to all new students, no leadership experience required. Engage – with the concept of what leadership actually is. 80 applicants will be accepted. For more information and to apply today go to http:/bit.ly/engagesjsu

Presented by Student Involvement

Women’s Social and Tea Party

Tuesday, September 10th
4:00pm-6:00pm

Umunhum Room,  Student Union

Join us for an exciting community event where there will be plenty of opportunities to see old friends and make new ones. This is your opportunity to meet and connect with support for women identified students. Light refreshments will be served.

Presented by the Women’s Resource Center

Dugdug.com interviews Dr. Cary Feria about her research

 

Speed haPhoto: Dr. Cary Ferias an effect on multiple-object tracking independently of the number of close encounters between targets and distractors

Interviewed by and Posted on dugdug, August 2013

Dr. Cary Feria is Associate Professor of Psychology and of Human Factors and Ergonomics at San Jose State University. Dr. Feria received her doctorate in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, where she explored depth and distance perception. More recently, her research interests have centered around visual attention and human factors. Dr. Feria’s primary research focus is “multiple object tracking,” which refers to the ability to visually track several moving objects simultaneously. Her recent paper, titled “Speed has an effect on multiple-object tracking independently of the number of close encounters between targets and distractors” was published in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Background of the study

The ability to visually track objects around us is essential to our capability to navigate our environment. The limitations of humans’ attentional capacities are most evident in cognitively taxing situations, such as when a driver navigates through a congested street, and when an air traffic controller attempts to prevent collisions while monitoring numerous aircraft. Understanding multiple object tracking has practical applications in the design of controls and displays for automobiles, airplane cockpits, and air traffic control systems.

Intuition tells us that the more quickly objects are moving, the worse we will be at tracking them (and research as evidenced this intuition!). However, it is also known that when the objects we are tracking pass close to one another, we tend to confuse the objects and have more difficulty tracking them. When objects are moving faster, they pass close to each other more often — So potentially it could be that fast motion does not actually make tracking harder, but that tracking is just worse at higher speeds due to the objects coming close to each other more often. Our study tested this possibility by using computerized displays in which the speed of the objects could be increased without increasing the frequency of objects passing close to each other.

Results and findings

Our study found that the faster the objects moved, the worse people tracked, even though the objects were not passing close to each other more often at higher speeds. So we concluded that higher speeds indeed make it more difficult to track objects. We also found that the greater the number of objects that had to be tracked, the larger the effect the speed had on people’s tracking ability. This suggests that when objects are moving faster, we need to use more of our attention in order to track each object; so when there are a large number of objects to track and they are moving quickly, we don’t have enough attentional resources to be able to track all the objects accurately.

About the department

The Department of Psychology at San Jose State University has Bachelors degree programs, as well as Masters programs in Experimental and Research Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The faculty of Psychology are highly dedicated and student-oriented, and have a wide variety of basic and applied research interests. The San Jose State University Human Factors and Ergonomics Masters program is an interdisciplinary program that prepares students for careers involving the design of machines and equipment to be compatible with the human body and humans’ cognitive abilities and limitations.

 

dugdug log

 DugDug bridges the gap between academic journals (that are written by academics, for academics) and mainstream publications (that are written by “us,” for “us”). They seek to take the cutting edge research occurring at academic institutions, and delivering key insights in a way that is easily understandable to casual readers.

 

Online courses fail the mid-term at San Jose State, but what about the final?

image: picture of classroom
by Sabri Ben-Achour
Marketplace Morning Report for Wednesday, July 24, 2013

San Jose State University is about two semesters into an experiment with MOOCs — also known as massive online open courses. The plan was to increase access to education by offering cheap online courses for university credit ($150 per course, free if you aren’t taking them for credit).

Then came the preliminary data, and the grades weren’t good:

Intro Statistics: 49 percent of San Jose students taking the class failed, as did 55 percent of non SJSU students.

Remedial math: 71 percent of the SJSU students failed. 88 percent of non SJSU students failed.

College Algebra: 56 percent of SJSU students failed, as did 88 percent of non-SJSU students.

“It’s not necessarily a failure at all,” says Provost Ellen Junn. She says the remedial math course was made up of students who had already failed it once, and up to half of the students in other courses were from economically disadvantaged high schools. There are very little data on how to adapt MOOCs to this population, so “part of our initiative was to study would this methodology help student success or not.”

According to Udacity, the company that partnered with San Jose State to put on the courses, the failure rates of the San Jose students in the online math course was  lower than the failure rate of San Jose students who took remedial math in a classroom. Even so, nearly three-quarters of the online students failed.

One problem, Junn says, is that may of the high school students didn’t have access to Internet at home and fell behind. Other students complained they had difficulty keeping up because they were also working full time.

Michael Horn heads the Christensen Institute, which supports innovation in education. He says the jury is still out on MOOCs, but says the type of experimentation taking place at San Jose — despite it’s early results — will be necessary to find ways to adapt the courses to students.

“What we’re learning very clearly is that simply because something’s on an online platform doesn’t make education better.”

Conversely, students need to adapt to MOOCs. Ron Rogers heads the psych department at San Jose and helped develop the statistics course. While online courses “are a work in progress,”  he says by nature “they are a slightly different beast, and students may not be aware of that.”

Rogers says many students were unprepared for college level work and didn’t know how to manage their time. His first assignment for the summer semester was to have students develop a time management schedule, and to impress upon them the scheduling and discipline requirements.

Another factor is class size, he says. Classes are larger for the summer for most MOOC subjects, and two new courses were added.

“I think we’ve reached a critical mass of students this semester, that’s allowing them to self-organize into study groups online,” he says.

The school will be working on these things while the MOOC program is on hold, and full data, due in August, will flesh out how round two of San Jose’s MOOCs fared.

 

 

 

Putting Your Degree in Experimental Psychology To Work

SkyView Helps Fliers Avoid Gadget-Related Neck Strain

By 

Bloomberg Businessweek

Image: Airline passenger using an electronic device

Walk down the aisle of any airplane and you’ll see passengers in a pose best described as “gadget crane”: necks bent downward at an acute angle so they can view their tablets or phones in their hands or resting on tray tables. Bryan McClain and Demetrius Madrigal have invented the SkyView Travel Tray Mount, an accessory meant to help fliers juggle their drinks and devices without straining their necks. SkyView hooks over the plastic latch of the tray table and can support the weight of an attached mobile device. While the idea is simple, the pair’s winding, years-long journey from conception to marketplace speaks to the sometimes quirky nature of invention.

McClain and Madrigal met at San Jose State University while pursuing master’s degrees in experimental psychology. They bonded over their studies of communication patterns in hostage situations and went on to train policemen around the world in negotiation techniques. In 2005, after struggling to keep that business going, they founded Metric Lab, a tech design firm that has consulted on products for Microsoft (MSFT), EBay (EBAY), BAE Systems (BAESY), and NASA. They put their behavior research to work, camping out at homes and taking notes as residents handled their remotes or computers. “We look for things that take a lot of time or that frustrate people,” says McClain. “They might not even notice the frustration, but we notice.”

McClain conceived of SkyView during a 2010 flight home to California from Costa Rica. He and Madrigal went on a months-long search for old airline seats so they could test their device. Most collectors of old plane parts were suspicious of their intentions, they say, but the pair finally connected with Interface Aviation, a seller of seats and other equipment for plane interiors in Hollister, Calif. Nestled among vineyards an hour’s drive south of Silicon Valley, its supermarket-size warehouse is stacked to the ceiling with old seats. The Metric Lab founders haggled with Peter Shamy, Interface’s director of sales, knocking the price of their first pair of seats from $800 to around $200.

From there, McClain and Madrigal brought in an industrial designer and an attorney to mock up the device, patent the design, and help pitch it to mobile accessory makers. Through LinkedIn (LNKD), McClain reached out to Griffin Technology, which licensed the device based on a prototype and specs for other models of airplane seats. “They came to us with a full incarnation of their idea rather than just a drawing on a napkin,” says Scott Naylor, director of product development at Griffin, which also sells cables, cases, and speakers.

Griffin sold out its first two production runs of SkyView through direct sales, which began in February. Now it’s also selling the device at Amazon.com (AMZN) and Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) website. The company says it plans to sell them in airport shops and other stores, but wouldn’t release a timeline or sales figures. Naylor says it’s “selling how we expected.” Gartner (IT) analyst Carolina Milanesi suggests that airlines could sell or rent SkyViews to passengers.

While McClain and Madrigal say they’ll return to consulting, they’re also planning another invention. (They wouldn’t say what it is, but their office is stocked with old seats from a baseball stadium.) Recently they drove back out to Hollister to give Shamy one of their devices. “This is really quite something,” he said. Then he swapped them 10 tray table latches for it.

 

The bottom line: Silicon Valley design consultants have created an accessory to make air travel less of a pain for mobile users.

 

Vance is a technology writer for Bloomberg Businessweek in Palo Alto, Calif. Follow him on Twitter @valleyhack.

Behind the Scenes of a MOOC

Behind the Scenes of a MOOC
by The Network, Cisco’s Technology News Site

May 12, 2013

MOOCS, or massive open online courses, have been making headlines in higher education over the last year, with many colleges and universities jumping into the game. That includes San Jose State University, which recently partnered with Silicon Valley-based online education startup, Udacity to offer college classes for credit, at an affordable $150 per course. We take a look at the technology used in this partnership, and show how the startup and San Jose State say they are changing the face of higher education.  (Transcript available here.)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Complex Psychology Systems

The University of Cincinnati has recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to conduct a 9 – week summer training institute: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Complex Psychological Systems.  They are looking to find the most diverse and well–qualified group of applicants possible. Learn all about this exciting opportunity at:  http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/psychology/undergrad/reu/

Some program highlights:Image: Poster session at REU program

  • 9-week summer research program, May 28, 2013 – July 26, 2013
  • $4,500 stipend for the 9-week program, plus travel stipend
  • On-campus food & lodging included
  • Work one-on-one with nationally and internationally known faculty mentors
  • Conduct research projects in complex psychological systems within a range of research labs across cognitive, developmental, social, community, organizational, and clinical psychology
  • Interact with community organizations and local companies
  • Participate in weekly professional development programming
  • Enjoy weekly social programming
  • We will begin reviewing applications April 8, 2013 and will continue until all positions are filled.

What’s Cooking With Our Graduates? Meet Eric Carter

Eric Carter, Santa Cruz County Stories: Cabrillo College culinary director serves up passion for cooking, student success

By Bonnie Horgos
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Posted:   03/17/2013 05:05:01 PM PDT
Updated:   03/17/2013 07:35:49 PM PDT

APTOS — For leisure reading, Eric Carter turns to the cookbooks of Thomas Keller, the famed restaurateur of the Michelin-starred French Laundry.

Photo: Eric Carter

Eric Carter, chair of the Culinary Arts program at Cabrillo college and… (Matthew Hintz/Sentinel)

“I like reading them for the sheer pleasure,” Carter said of the tomes. “They’re challenging recipes, but they’re fun to read.”

The La Selva Beach resident’s reading choice makes sense, though.

Carter is director at Cabrillo College’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management program, shaping students into budding chefs in and out of the kitchen multiple days per week. He also helped reboot the community college’s Pino Alto Restaurant at the Sesnon House, where eager pupils get hands-on experience running the kitchen and floor Wednesday through Friday.

In the past few years, Carter has taken an initiative to increase student success. Since then, the number of students receiving degrees and certificate in Cabrillo’s culinary program has tripled.

While Carter has taught at Cabrillo for 17 years, his personal training in the kitchen was baptism by fire. He never studied at a culinary school, learning instead by working side jobs to support himself through college at San Jose State.

His first gig was at age 18 washing dishes at Villa Fontana Retirement Community in San Jose, though he doesn’t really flaunt it on his resume.

“It was dish-washing slash putting parsley on the plate for garnish,” Carter said with a laugh.

After that, he trained as a saute cook, where he cooked up food and sauces up to 60 hours per week.

“You need to multitask, and I like that,” Carter said. “I enjoy the pressure of cooking on the line.”

While Carter enjoyed working in various kitchens through the years, he decided to hang up his apron and start teaching when his four children started attending school. He had to take a pay cut, but the hours and summer vacations were ideal.

While demo kitchens and lecture halls are a change of pace, Carter said he fostered skills early on that he incorporates into his lesson plans. Last year, there were 265 students enrolled in the Culinary Arts program.

“You’re always teaching when you’re cooking,” Carter said. “I think you have to be a lot more patient as an educator, though.”

So what about cooking at home? Carter hits up the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College every Saturday, looking for fresh, local ingredients such as salmon and salad greens. It helps that his wife, who he met in his class, likes to cook as much as he does — she generally makes a salad every night, and he tackles the main course.

“I love to cook at home,” Carter said. “I cook at home more now than when I was a chef.”

Follow Sentinel reporter Bonnie Horgos on Twitter at Twitter.com/bhorgos

Getting to Know Eric Carter
Born: May 30, 1958, in San Jose
Family: Wife Peggy Chandler-Carter; children Peter, 29, Mary, 28, Sarah, 24, and Tom, 22
Education: Bachelor’s degree in psychology, San Jose State, 1981; master’s degree in education, San Jose State, 2008
Bonding: Carter taught his children how to cook, and gave his daughters a binder full of his favorite recipes one year for Christmas. ‘The boys were jealous, so I made them binders, too.’
Hobbies: When Carter isn’t poring over cookbooks, he likes to surf and kayak fish.
Taste: Carter said he likes to eat everything except for orange circus peanuts. ‘I don’t like them, but I’m a pretty adventurous eater.’
Community: Carter moved from Saratoga to La Selva Beach 10 years ago. ‘I absolutely love that little community. We know our neighbors, and we’ll have a glass of wine with them, or watch the sunset together at the bluff.

How To Succeed In An Online Course

Posted by Robyn Gee for Youth Radio
March 1, 2013 at 03:48pm

Image: Screen capture of Udacity course

A recent study out of Columbia University shows that certain groups of students, specifically African Americans, males, and those who have low grade point averages, do poorly in online courses compared to other students. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education warns that online learning could widen the existing achievement gap between white and African American students.

Associate Professor Sean Laraway at San Jose State University in California is concerned about this trend, especially because the primary goal of the online elementary statistics course he teaches is to increase accessibility to the material. He teaches this course in partnership with Udacity, a provider of free online college courses. Laraway currently teaches approximately 4,000 students, which is actually small for an online course.

Ideally, this course serves students who would be otherwise waitlisted for the in-person course. It’s called a “bottleneck course” because it satisfies general education requirement. In addition, the course is open to community college students and high school students for credit, as well as to the public.

Laraway says that instead of talking about a black and white achievement gap, the focus should be on a student’s previous preparation for the course. “Studies show that students who aren’t prepared for in-class courses, are doubly unprepared for an online course,” he said. And most likely, students who are unprepared for online courses, have been failed by in-class education their whole life, he added.

Laraway said that there are certain traits that contribute to a student’s success in an online course. First, a student has to be able to follow written directions, often in English. Secondly, a student must have time management skills. “Because you’re not physically scheduled to show up somewhere, it’s easy to say, ‘Oh yeah, I’ll get to it.’ Also when you’re taking a class at home, there are all kinds of distractions going on, sometimes family responsibilities… You have to be in an environment that supports sitting down at a computer and working really hard on some challenging concepts,” said Laraway.

While the content of Laraway’s online statistics course is exactly the same as it would be in the classroom, the experience is intentionally different. In a traditional classroom, a student will often listen to a lecture twice a week, and then complete homework. “You’re not forced to engage in the material, except in a passive way,” said Laraway. “What we hope to do with our course is present bite-size pieces of information and then immediately have some activity where they can assess their knowledge, or provoke their thought. It requires a lot of interaction,” he said.

Ultimately, Laraway says that online education is not going away — and his course is an experiment that should be evaluated. “All we can do is make sure [online courses are] evidence-based, have empirical data to support what we’re doing, that we continue to try to make it better, and keep getting student feedback on how to make it better,” he said.

Chaparral’s Cunnigan emerges as a leader for struggling San Jose State

image: Ta’Rea Cunnigan playing basketball

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Christopher Hadorn   JAN. 10, 2013

Reprinted from U~T San Diego: http://www.utsandiego.com/

Ta’Rea Cunnigan is a psychology major at San Jose State, so she’s intrigued by the processes of the brain.

The Chaparral High graduate knows to keep a positive mindset when circumstances sour on the basketball court.

That hasn’t been easy this season, as her Spartans women’s basketball team has labored to a 4-11 record, including 1-3 in the Western Athletic Conference.

“I am trying not just to dwell on what we haven’t been able to, but focus on what we can do,” Cunnigan said. “We have a lot of basketball left to play. I have been trying to remain positive and just keep encouraging my teammates.”

Cunnigan, a sophomore, is the Spartans’ lone returning player. San Jose State might be the greenest team in Division I women’s basketball — it has zero seniors, one junior, two sophomores and six freshmen.

“(Youth) does play a factor, but we don’t really use that as a crutch, either,” Cunnigan said.

The 5-foot-9 guard has been a torchbearer for her young teammates. Entering this week, her 19.9 points per game ranked second in the WAC. Her 3.53 steals per game were also second in the conference and 14th in the nation.

With her ability to drive to the basket and create havoc as a press defender, Cunnigan is realizing the promise that was foreseen from her when she was named a preseason all-conference selection.

She is playing at a higher level this year after leading all WAC freshmen in scoring with 11.6 points per game in 2011-12.

Cunnigan credits some of her improvement to offseason strength and conditioning. But she has always believed that she had the athleticism to play at an elevated status in Division I. And she thinks most of her gains should be attributed to Spartans coach Tim La Kose and his staff for helping her with the mental approach.

“(They emphasized) staying positive and being a leader on the court — also off,” Cunnigan said. “Not being too down on myself when I do make a mistake or when I do mess up. Just move past it and keep going. I think that’s where the maturing comes into place, being able to make a mistake and responding different to it in a more positive manner.”

Cunnigan aspires to be a sports psychologist. Certainly, her chances weren’t hurt this week, when she learned she was nominated for an academic All-American honor. Cunnigan holds a 3.61 grade-point average.

“It’s time to just come together, get some wins from here on out,” Cunnigan said.