The Department of Social Sciences is proud to announce the Installation Ceremony of our University’s induction to the International Honor Society in Psychology, known internationally as the Psi Chi Honor Society for Psychologists.
The University of Nicosia Psi Chi Chapter will be installed on 31 January 2018 at 18:00 (time of arrival 17:45) at the UNESCO Amphitheatre.
The faculty advisors of the new Chapter are: Dr Marios Adonis, Dr Maria Hajdimarkou, and Dr Yianna Ioannou.
Charter members of the Chapter are: Andrea Evdokimou, Ester Lima, Elena Anastasiou, Chrysostomos Hadjidemetriou, Stephanie Antoniou, Gregoris Karis, Orestis Lanitis, Michalis Khalil, Antonia Tziannarou, and Marie-Emily Erotokritou.
Information on Psi Chi
Psi Chi was founded on September 4, 1929 during the Ninth International Congress of Psychology held at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Honor Society’s stated purpose is to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship, and to advance the science of psychology. Many of the Society’s members have gone on to distinguished careers in psychology, including several presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society (APS), numerous national and international award winners, and various other renowned research psychologists, authors, professors, and practitioners.
Psi Chi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of both the APA and APS. Psi Chi has grown over the past 87 years into one of the largest and most successful honor societies in the world with over 1197 chapters located at college and university campuses throughout the U.S. as well as in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Barbados, Egypt, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Turkey and Puerto Rico. These chapters not only recognize academic achievement by granting membership in the Society, but also sponsor programs and activities which augment and enhance the regular curriculum, offer an outlet for service to the campus and the community at large, and provide practical experience and fellowship through affiliation with the chapter. The international organization bestows several regional and Society research awards, sponsors diverse programs at regional and national psychological association conventions (including lectures, workshops, panel discussions, and information exchanges), and publishes the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research (formerly the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research). In addition, Psi Chi’s Society service projects illustrate the Society’s commitment to its mission of “student excellence, reflected in scholarly and professional growth within psychology and the ability to impact society positively.”
