Elizabeth Akey

Elizabeth H. Akey has joined the Department of Psychological Sciences as a Clinical Assistant Professor, after previous stints as a Visiting Assistant Professor with the department. Her primary responsibilities will center on supervising the clinical work of graduate students in the clinical psychology program, as they are trained to provide psychological services through the Purdue Psychology Treatment and Research Clinics (PPTRC). Areas of focus include application of evidence based and empirically supported treatments in the practice of child psychology, ADHD through the lifespan, and disruptive childhood disorders in general. In addition to interim appointments with Purdue, she has over twenty years of experience in clinical and administrative positions in community mental health centers in Indiana and Michigan. She holds a PhD from Purdue University, with additional education and training from Western Michigan University, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, and the University of Michigan.

Sang Woo

Sang Eun Woo joins the department of Psychological Sciences as an Assistant Professor after receiving her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Woo's research focuses on how people's personality and motivation can help explain various organizational outcomes such as performance, job attitudes, and withdrawal behaviors. Her dissertation explores dispositional differences in frequencies of and reasons for voluntary turnover. She also has interest in constructs related to how motivated and open a person is to gain new experiences, such as taking an overseas assignment, changing jobs, working with people of different cultures, acquiring new knowledge, and developing one's managerial/leadership potential.