14th Annual Faculty Center Conference--In Person

Dr. Jennifer McCabe is the Psychology Department Chair and Elizabeth Conolly Todd ’21 Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her B.A. in Psychology from McDaniel College and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches introductory courses along with middle- and upper-level courses in human cognition. In her 21-year career at liberal arts colleges, Dr. McCabe has earned several teaching-focused awards, including most recently the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl ’25 Award for outstanding faculty achievement in teaching, research, and service. 

Dr. McCabe’s research interests include memory strategies, metacognition, and applications of memory theories to teaching and learning in higher education. She has published her work in journals, including Memory & Cognition, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and Teaching of Psychology. Recently, she gave an invited talk for the APA’s Introductory Psychology Initiative Course Design Institute and published an invited chapter for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP)’s e-book on translating the science of learning for non-expert audiences. Dr. McCabe is an Associate Editor for the Teaching of Psychology journal, and a Fellow in the Psychonomic Society and the Eastern Psychological Association.

Dr. Brianna Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Farmingdale State College. She completed her B.S. In Psychology at University of Florida, and both her M.A. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Integrative Neuroscience at Stony Brook University. She currently teaches Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Biopsychology, Learning, and Research Methods at FSC. Dr. Gonzalez's PSY364 Introduction to Biopsychology course was recently selected as an exemplar in the SUNY Online Course Observation program, demonstrating excellent online course design and overall course layout. Dr. Gonzalez's research focuses on the behavioral and cognitive processes involved in learning, memory, and decision making, with a specific emphasis on growth mindset. 

Dr. Kathryn M. Hauschild joined the Farmingdale State College faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Fall of 2022. She is a developmental psychologist by training with expertise in early cognitive development and autism spectrum disorder. Her research work bridges the areas of developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology to better understand how individuals gain and categorize knowledge about the people and objects in their everyday environment. This work serves her overarching goal of contributing to theoretical frameworks that account for the shared relationship between core cognitive competencies such as face perception, category knowledge, and language acquisition, which together support successful social information processing. She has over 10 years of experience teaching at the undergraduate level and contributing to the mentorship of trainees as well as extensive experience developing, conducting, and overseeing the implementation of externally funded research projects.

Dr. Emre Tokgoz is a professor of the Computer Security Department at State University of New York’s Farmingdale campus. He has 14 years of professorship experience with two Ph.D. degrees (one in mathematics and the other in industrial engineering) and four masters’ degrees completed in mathematics, computer science, engineering management and biomedical engineering. He served as the Director of Quinnipiac University’s Industrial Engineering Bachelor of Science academic program for eight years in addition to being an Associate Professor of the program. His research and peer-reviewed publications included network systems and security, Operations Research (with a focus on convexity and optimization), business analytics, artificial intelligence with deep and machine learning theory and applications, rocket engine design and improvement, and financial engineering.