Hope College Psychology

09/22/2026

We're proud of our psychology department alum, James Lenger!

What started as an effort to help a student with Parkinson's play guitar turned into something much bigger: James Lenger ’01 discovered a whole new therapeutic approach.

🔗 Read the full story at the link in the comments.

09/03/2026

08/28/2026

We're getting excited about the start of the fall semester! Can't wait to have all the students back on campus.

02/21/2025

Day of Giving joy to you… hope.edu/give2hope

Current Hope students, alumni and faculty Carole Chee '24, Kayla DeVries '25, Professor Emily Helder, Katie Bozek '02, Tracie Baker '11 and Ali Koehl '23 attended the Korean Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) conference together. Dr. Katie Bozek '02 is the executive director of KAAN. Ali, Kayla and Carole are members of Hope's Adoptee Organization, a student org that they co-founded alongside other adoptees on campus.

Thanks for sending us a photo!

02/21/2025

💙💙It’s Hope’s Day of Giving 2025! 💙💙
💙💙 Give to what & who you love! 💙💙
💙💙We love our students & alumni! 💙💙

In and beyond the classroom and research lab,
internships and Psi Chi/Psych Club, Hope people make a positively transformational impact.

Last year, Kayla DeVries and her mentor, Emily Helder, presented their research. Another 48 students presented research at the MPA conference alone. This year we anticipate several dozen students attending and presenting at this conference.

This year, Cassie Morse‘s research on “Accountability: Correlational and Experimental Evidence that Empathy and Self-Regulation Matter” will be recognized with a Psi Chi Regional Research Award!

Your support can create research presentation opportunities, which open doors to graduate school and job prospects, so Hope people can make a needed difference in the world.

Join me in making a gift to the Department of Psychology and Hope College on Day of Giving 2025!

02/19/2024

Give to what you love this week!🧡💙⚓️
Past donors have impacted faculty-student research opportunities. Your gift, no matter the size, will make a difference in the lives of our students—like Nhi Hoang (see link). We hope that some of the funds raised will make research opportunities accessible to a wider range of students. 🧡💙⚓️
To support the Psychology Department, click
https://give.communityfunded.com/o/hope-college/i/day-of-giving-2024/s/psychology. Thank you for partnering with us.
Go Hope! 🧡💙⚓️

Learn more about the Department of Psychology and Nhi, and give to what you love here!

02/10/2024

We recognize Dr. Sonja Trent-Brown, VP of Culture and Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Psychology!

Dr. Sonja Trent-Brown, vice president of culture and inclusive excellence at Hope College, will present the college’s 2024 Black History Month History Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 4 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.

Learn more at https://goho.pe/3UraxqZ.

02/10/2024

Hope Psychology recognizes the research of our students. In 2023 and 2024, Nhi Hoang was selected for the Midwestern Psychology Association Psi Chi Honor Society’s Midwest Regional Research Award! Congratulations, Nhi!

Hope College senior Nhi Hoang of Da Nang, Vietnam, has won a regional award for excellence in collaborative student-faculty research for the second year in a row from the Midwestern chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.

02/23/2023

It's Day of Giving at Hope College, and we want you to give to what you love! These happy faculty (it was summer weather, after all!) love working with students and hope that you'll support those students with a generous gift to Hope Psychology. Your gift makes student opportunities possible! http://hope.edu/give/psychology

02/26/2022

Bring some homework and be ready to relax on from 7-9pm on Tuesday, March 8th!