APF Grant Enables High School Students to Study Psychology at Yale University

Kristina Olson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University will receive the 2009 Pre-College Grant for her work with the Yale Science Collaborative for Hands-On Learning and Research (SCHOLAR) program. Sophomore SCHOLARs will take a college level psychology course, and high school juniors and seniors will be able to work in the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale University as interns.

The grant epitomizes the goal of APF's Pre-College Psychology Grant Program, which aims to reinforce the discipline of psychology as a science in secondary school curricula, expand the profile of psychology as a science, attract talented high school students to pursue the discipline, convey to high school students that psychological science is a tool to improve society, and teach students about career options, which apply psychology outside of an academic setting.