Curriculum Vitae

 

KIERNIESKY, NICHOLAS CHARLES

 

Department of Psychology                                           

Coad Science Building                                     

Mount Saint Mary's University                         

Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727
nkierniesky@gmail.com
kierniesky@msmary.edu                                              

www.kierniesky.com

 

Personal

 

  Born December 28, 1943;  Married, with two adult children

 

Education

 

  La Salle College, B.A.            1966                Psychology

  Villanova University, M.S.      1968                Experimental Psychology

  Tulane University, Ph.D.         1972                Physiological Psychology

 

  1984 Sabbatical: Five graduate courses in computer science at The

                             Johns Hopkins University.

  1997 Sabbatical: Guest Researcher, National Institute of Neurological

         Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda. MD.

  2004 Sabbatical: Manuscript projects in statistics and survey of

         undergraduate research.

 

Employment

 

1971-2006:  Mount Saint Mary's College,  Professor (1983) and

    Chair (1980-2000), Professor Emeritus (2007), Department of Psychology.

 

1970-1971:  Teaching assistant, Tulane University, conducting the

    undergraduate laboratory in physiological psychology.

 

1967-1968:  Teaching assistant, Villanova University, conducting

    discussion sections in general psychology, undergraduate laboratory in

    learning, and the graduate laboratory in physiological psycholo

 

Consulting and Part-Time

 

 1998-Grant reviewer, National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.

 1993-1995: Editorial textbook consulting for Prentice-Hall.

 1985: Triton Corporation, Consultant: Statistical analysis of National

     Emergency Training Center course evaluation, maintain database, write

     documentation and final report.

 1987, 1988: Computer Applications for Teachers: one week summer

     workshop.

 Part-time teaching at Shippensburg University and Hagerstown Area

     Community College.

 

Teaching Experience

 

My primary areas of interest are in biopsychology, learning, statistics and research methodology.  Specific courses frequently taught are the following: Statistics, Research Methods, Biopsychology, Experimental Learning, Sensation & Perception and Foundations of Psychology. Less frequently taught: History & Systems, Comparative, Experimental Cognition,  and special topics courses, such as Drugs and Addiction, Sleep and Dreams, and Psychology in Film.

 

From 1984 to 1988, I also taught Pascal and Data Structures in the computer curriculum offered by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

 

Department Development

 

Prior  to becoming Chair, I established laboratories in biopsychology and operant conditioning in the Coad Science Building, developed extensive library holdings in psychology, expanded the curriculum, and established the Psi Chi chapter on campus.    Since  becoming Chair, I've expanded the staff, developed additional laboratory space, designed the Department's faculty office expansion, and led the redesign of the psychology curriculum. Most recently, I designed a new interdisciplinary major in Biopsychology.

 

Computer Experience

 

I was active in bringing computer-assisted-instruction to campus,  and developed extensive software with the PLATO network (in the 1970s)  and with microcomputers (in the 1980s). All laboratory courses use computer-controlled or computer-simulated experiments.

     Campus-wide, I co-chaired the development and funding of the first minicomputer-based  academic computing facility (early 1980s) and a microcomputer laboratory (1989).  I am responsible for initiating the first campus-wide committee on academic computing (1984).  I chaired the task force which recommended the restructuring of campus-wide computing to emphasize networking and a new computing administration (1992). 

 

 

Research Activity

 

My primary objective since 1971 has been to interest and involve undergraduate psychology majors in primary research. Most of the coauthors on my publications and presentations were undergraduates when they contributed to the research.  The variety of different research areas reflect the generalist values important to a small psychology program as well the varied opportunities and student interests that arise.

     With an expanded staff and a restructured curriculum since 1986, I have been able to significantly improve the student research activity within the Department.  Evidence of this is First prize in the 1991 national student research competition of the American Psychological Society and Second prize in the 1997 Psi Chi/Allyn & Bacon national student research competition.

      I organized and chaired the campus-wide Institutional Review Board (IRB) for

faculty and student research, using a computer-based evaluation procedure.

 

Campus Committees

 

 Standing: Academic Council, Faculty Affairs Committee (Chair), Faculty-

                Student Affairs (Chair), Barrett Research Prize (Chair), Faculty

                Computer Committee (Chair), Scholars Lecture Series (Chair),

                Library,  Enrollment Management Council, IRB (Chair)

 Ad Hoc:  Teaching Effectiveness (Chair), Master Planning, Academic

                Computing, J-Term, Alumni Questionnaire, Teaching Award, Task

                Force on Campus-Wide Computing (Chair), Various subcommittees

                of the Middle States Self-Evaluation Team.

 Search:   Psychology Faculty (Chair), Director of Library, Director of

                Admissions,  Director of Academic Computing,  Chairperson of

                Mathematics and Computer Science,  Chairperson of Science,

                Sociology Faculty.

 

Professional Affiliations

 

     American Psychological Association (APA)

  Member, Division 2 (Teaching) and Division 6 (Physiological)

  Review papers for the Annual Convention (1991-95, 1998-01)

  Review manuscripts for Volume 4, Teaching Activities (1998)

     Eastern Psychological Association

     American Psychological Society (Charter member)

     Council of Undergraduate Research

     Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs

 National Chair, 1994-1995

             Eastern Coordinator, 1992-1994

 Liaison to the Board of Educational Affairs, APA, 1993-1999

 Newsletter Editor, 1997-2003

   

Seminars and Workshops

 

     National Science Foundation Conference on Neurobiology, Cognition, and

          Computer Utilization,   Colorado State University, 6/24-7/13, 1990.

     National Science Foundation Chautauqua Programs:

1981-1982:  Microcomputers in the Laboratory

1979-1980:  Psychological Perspectives on Sociobiology

1979-1980:  Frontiers of Neuroscience

1978-1979:  Psychobiology of Pain and Pain Inhibition

 

Honors and Fellowships

 

    Sigma Xi (National Scientific Research Honor Society)

    Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology)

    Alpha Epsilon (La Salle College Honor Society)

    Certificate of Appreciation from Psi Chi Students, 1977.

    Certificate for Distinguished Service, Psi Chi, 1991.

    Distinguished Service, Mount St. Mary's College, 1996

    NASA Traineeship, 1968-1970.

 

Grants and Contracts

 

   National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory

        Improvement, 1997-1999.   Human Psychophysiology into an

        Undergraduate Psychology Program, $18832.

 

    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 1989-1990.

        Service contract to provide control data and other consulting for

        memory research with neurologically-impaired patients,  $8000.

        Continued in 1992, ($1200) and in 1993, ($4950).

 

    Summer Research Grants, Mount Saint Mary's College, 1973, 1974,

         1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1990, 2003  $6667 (total funded).

 

Permits (Until 2007)

    Drug Enforcement Agency Registration #PK0163888-Researcher

    Maryland Controlled Dangerous Substances Registration #R08528

Publications (Citation counts available)

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. & Gerall, A. A. (1973)  Effects of testosterone implants

in the brain on the sexual behavior and peripheral tissue of the male

rat.  Physiology and Behavior,  11,  633-640.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1973) The effects of intracranial androgen implantation

on male sexual behavior and peripheral tissue in the rat. Dissertation

Abstracts International B,  33(8), 3982.

 

     Kierniesky, N. C. (1973)  Chemical stimulation of the pineal gland:

Preliminary observations.  Worm Runner's Digest, 15, 94-95.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1974)  Book review of D. E. Broadbent's In defence of

empirical psychology.  Journal of Biological Psychology, 16, 50-51.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1975) Computer-assisted-instruction in an under-

graduate psychology laboratory course. In J. B. Maas & D. A. Kleiber

(Eds.)  Directory of Teaching Innovations in Psychology.   Washington:

American Psychological Association, 487-488.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C., Sick, T., & Kruppenbacher, F. (1977)  Open field activity 

of albino rats as a function of sex, age, and repeated testing.

Psychological Reports,  40, 1255-1260.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. & Groelinger, L.  (1977)  General anxiety and death

imagery in Catholic seminarians and college students.  Journal of

Psychology,  97, 199-203.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1977)  Book review of R. Rosenthal's Experimenter

effects in behavioral research: Enlarged edition.  Journal of Biological

Psychology,  19, 58-59.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1978)  Free exploration trends of developing albino rats.

Psychological Reports,  43, 209-210.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1979)  Drugs and bureaucracy.   Newsletter on the

Teaching of Physiological Psychology,  2(1),  2.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C., Beaton, R. J., McAbee, D. K., & Sheftic, J. M. (1980)

Acquisition of an avoidance response in rats during light-mediated

conditioned suppression.  Journal of General Psychology,  103,

221-225.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. & Kestler, E. (1981)  The effects of naloxone and

background noise on tone-mediated conditioned suppression in rats.

In A. Herschman (Ed.)  Abstracts of Papers of the 147th National

Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Washington: AAAS, 147. 

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1984)  Undergraduate research in small psychology

departments.  Teaching of Psychology, 11(1), 15-18.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1989)  Primary research at a small college. Mountaineer

Briefing,  Commencement Issue,  20-21.

 

    Friedrich, J.,  Kierniesky, N. & Cardon, L. (1989)  Drawing moral inferences

from descriptive science: The impact of attitudes on naturalistic

fallacy errors.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,  15(3),

414-425.

 

    Kierniesky, N. & Sobus, M. (1989)  The naturalistic fallacy: Moral

inferences drawn from research with children versus adults.

Psychological Reports,  65, 475-479.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1992)  Specialization of the undergraduate major. 

American Psychologist,  47, 1146-1147.

 

    Halpern, D. F, Smothergill, D., Allen, M. Baker, S., Baum, C., Best, D., Ferrari, J,

            Geisinger, K., Gilden, E., Hester, M, Keith-Spiegel, P., Kierniesky, N. C.,

            McGovern, T., McKeachie, W.,  Prokasy, W., Szuchman, L., Vasta, R., Weaver,

K. A. (1998)   Scholarship in psychology: A paradigm for the 21st century.

American Psychologist, 53, 1292-1297.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (2005) Undergraduate research in small psychology departments:

Two decades later. Teaching of Psychology, 32, 84-90.

 

 

 

 

 

Paper Presentations

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1970) Effects of adaptation and neonatal androgen on

female receptivity.   Paper presented at the Eastern Regional

Conference on Reproductive Behavior,  Delray Beach, Florida,  April.

    Kierniesky, N. C. (1972) The effects of intracranial androgen implantation

on male sexual behavior and peripheral tissue in the rat.  Paper

presented at the Eastern Regional Conference on Reproductive

Behavior,  New Orleans,  June.

 

    Sick, T., Kruppenbacher, F. & Kierniesky, N. C. (1973)  The effects of sex,

age and repeated trials on open field activity of albino rats.  Paper

presented at the Maryland Psychological Association,  Towson, April.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C. & Kestler, E. (1981)  The effects of naloxone and

background noise on tone-mediated conditioned suppression in rats.

Paper presented at the 147th National Meeting of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science,  Toronto, January.

 

    Friedrich, J., Kierniesky, N., & Cardon, L. (1988)  The naturalistic fallacy:

On drawing moral prescriptions from descriptive science.  Paper

presented at the Western Psychological Association,  Burlingame, CA,

April.

 

    Sobus, M. & Kierniesky, N. (1989)  The naturalistic fallacy: Moral

inferences drawn from research using children versus adults.  Paper

presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA April.

 

    Kierniesky, N. C.(1989) Primary research at a small college: Distinguished

Faculty Address presented at the Mount Saint Mary's College Honors

Convocation, April 29.

 

    Rupinski, M. T. & Kierniesky, N. C. (1991) Hemispheric differences in the

assessment of emotional content of words and faces.  Paper presented

at The Mid-Atlantic Regional Scientific Psychology Conference,

University Park, PA,  March 16.

 

    Samuelsen, T. J. & Kierniesky, N. C. (1991) Hemispheric processing in the

Stroop task: Impact of word vs. letter recognition.  Paper presented at

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Scientific Psychology Conference,

University Park, PA,  March 16.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1991)  How current can the undergraduate teaching of

experimental psychology be?  Paper presented at the 99th Annual

Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco,

August 18,

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1991)  Arnold Gerall and the generalist tradition in

experimental psychology.  Paper presented at the Festschrift for

Arnold Gerall,  New Orleans,  November 8.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1993) Chair and discussant. The undergraduate

          curriculum: Chair perspectives on current issues. Symposium presented

          at the Eastern Psychological Association,  Crystal City, VA.  April 18.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1993) Chair and discussant.  The misadventures of

          department chairpersons.  Roundtable presented at the Eastern

          Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs,  Crystal City,

          VA.  April 18.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1994) Chair.  New resources for undergraduate research.

Symposium presented at the Eastern Meeting of the Council of Under-

graduate Psychology Programs,  Providence, RI,  April, 17.

 

    Kierniesky, N.(1994) Implications of changes in animal welfare regulation

and ethics on small college psychology programs.  Paper presented at

the Eastern Meeting of the Council of Undergraduate Psychology

Programs,  Providence, RI, April, 17.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1995)  Discussant.  Publishing a student research journal.

Psi Chi symposium presented at the Annual Convention of the

American Psychological Society,  New York, NY, July 1.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1995) Chair.  Influences on the undergraduate psychology

curriculum.  Symposium presented at the 103rd Annual Convention of 

the American Psychological Association,  New York, NY, August 14.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1995)  Fondest dream, greatest nightmare.  Paper

presented at the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments ,

Atlanta, GA, December 8.

 

    Kierniesky, N. (1996)  Undergraduate curriculum: What should it be?          

Paper presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association,   

Norfork, VA, March 21.

 

Kierniesky, N. (1998)  Scholarship: A new definition for the new

American university. Open Panel Discussion.  Paper presented at

the Eastern Psychological Association,  Boston, MA,  February 28.

Laufert, M. & Kierniesky, N.  (2000)  Effects of chronic adolescent exposure to

ephedrine on late adolescent behavior, adult behavior, and reaction to acute

amphetamine administration.  Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological

Association, Baltimore, March 25.

 LaLumiere, R. T. & Kierniesky, N.  (2000)  Effects of adolescent exposure to caffeine

and methylphenidate in spontaneously hypertensive rats.  Paper presented at the

Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 25.

 

Kierniesky, N.  (2000).  Discussant.  Student input into managing undergraduate

psychology programs. Symposium presented at the 108th Annual Convention

of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August 8.