Purdue Association of Graduate Students in Industrial Psychology (PAGSIP)

Purdue Association of Graduate Students in Industrial Psychology (PAGSIP)

The Purdue Association of Graduate Students in Industrial Psychology was established in 1949. The goals of the organization included providing an opportunity for current students to meet informally to discuss research ideas and problems and to foster communication with program alumni. In order to reserve rooms in the Purdue Memorial Union for their meetings, the students had to become an official Purdue organization—hence PAGSIP was born. In the early years, PAGSIP sponsored a variety of informal social activities for current students and alumni in and around the greater West Lafayette area. In addition, the organization sponsored a reception at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association meeting so that current students and alumni could get together. We have continued this tradition by holding a reception every other year in honor of the Ernest J. McCormick speaker at the meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). All current Purdue graduate students in I-O Psychology and those who earned their degree at Purdue are considered PAGSIP members.  Needless to say, the current number of PAGSIP members is quite large and we are hoping to facilitate greater communication among alumni members and current graduate students through our website and LinkedIn group. 

History of PAGSIP

In Memoriam - Dick Jeanneret (1940-2021)

In Memoriam - Frank Schmidt (1944-2021)

Current Members (2023-24)

• President: Meaghan Tracy

• Vice President: Jerod White

• Treasurer/Fundraising: Bradley Pitcher, Victoria Scotney Wang 

• Events: Dante Bruno, Christine Cairoli

• Newsletter/Outreach: Mia Kendrick, Fanyi Zhang

• Social Media: Daphne Hou

• Website: Gloria Liou

• Global UN Compact: Rick Yang

Honorary Committee Members

William C. Byham (PhD’63), Committee Chair

Robert D. Gatewood (MS’67; PhD’71)

William H. Hendrix (MS’69; PhD‘74)

Paul R. Jeanneret (PhD’69)

Richard J. Klimoski (MS’68; PhD’70)

Frank L. Schmidt (MS’68; PhD’70)

Kara K. Schmitt (MS’70; PhD‘72)

Neal W. Schmitt (MS’69; PhD’72)

George C. Thornton III (MS’64; PhD‘66)

Calling all Alumni!

We are currently updating our PAGSIP records and would love to hear from you. Please send us updates about yourself and let us know if you would ever like to come and visit.  In addition, we would be happy to post information about PAGSIP Alumni in this section of our webpage. If you would like to donate to the Purdue I-O Psychology 80th Anniversary Campaign, please click here. For more information about our Anniversary and associated events, please see our recent newsletter. Questions or requests can be directed to Ashley Kim at AMKim@prf.org. We can be contacted at PAGSIP@purdue.edu. If you are interested in giving to Purdue, please contact Ashley Kim at AMKim@prf.org.