Richard M. Flicker, Ph.D. Bio

Richard M. Flicker, Ph.D.
flicker@premier.net

307 Blanks Hall
(225) 771-2990 (Phone)
(225) 771-2082 (FAX)

Education: B.S. The City College of New York; M.S. and Ph.D. Purdue UniversityDr.

Richard M. Flicker is a licensed Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. He has been on the faculty at Southern University since 2001 and primarily teaches the Psychological Research and Experimental Psychology courses. He also has taught the Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Interpersonal Communications courses. Dr. Flicker is a past president of the Baton Rouge Area Society of Psychologists, past president of the Exchange Club of Baton Rouge, past Vice President and Treasurer of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, and is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. President of Flicker & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm in Baton Rouge since 1993 (formerly in Shreveport, Louisiana), Dr. Flicker has over thirty years of consulting experience in the private and public sectors in such areas as: employee appraisal systems, employee selection and test validation, salary and wage analysis, productivity improvement, team building, and conflict resolution. He also has extensive experience conducting numerous seminars/workshops on leadership/supervision/management development, team building, conflict/stress management, customer service, and ethics. Dr. Flicker has qualified/served as an expert witness in federal and district courts in numerous cases involving employment discrimination and aptitude/employability evaluations.

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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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