Monday, March 5, 2007

Murelle G. Harrison, Ph.D. Bio


Murelle G. Harrison, Ph.D.
Murelle_harrison@subr.edu
317 Blanks Hall
(225) 771-2990 (Phone)
(225) 771-2082 (FAX)

Education: B.S. Southern University, M.A. Michigan State University, Ph.D. LSU


Dr. Harrison is a licensed Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and usually teaching the course in I/O in the Fall semester and Interpersonal Communication in the Spring semester. Dr. Harrison’s research interest for the past 25 years has been substance abuse prevention. Dr. Harrison has been funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The field of prevention is evolving into a profession and Dr. Harrison teaches a Prevention Specialist course online during the Fall semester. Due to the relationship between HIV/AIDS and substance use, Dr. Harrison’s research interest has extended to include HIV/AIDS. She has served as the co-principal investigator along with Dr. Duncan on a project for the second year that focuses HIV/AIDS Awareness and Testing. Dr. Harrison received supplemental funding from NIDA to collect epidemiological data from families in South Africa that has resulted in a mission project. She travels to the rural Limpopo Province annually to provide technical and humanitarian support for Kokona Dikgale Primary School. Due to her interest in HIV/AIDS, Dr. Harrison has also mentored two students from Brazil and, in turn, had a psychology student to study in Brazil in summer 2006. The Brazilian project is a collaboration between three universities in Brazil and three in the United States (LSU, Southern University, and the University of Minnesota).

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