University of Wyoming
The Psychology Department was formed in 1910 when June E. Downey became the first professor of philosophy and psychology. Downey had published seven books and more than 70 articles before dying in October 1932. Dr. Lillian Portenier joined the Psychology Department in 1930 and investigated student mentality ratings.
The Psychology Department's faculty provides broad educational and research experiences to University students on campus as well as throughout the state.
This collection contains subject files on the department's research and administrative activities, including several publications by Downey and Portenier; newspaper clippings and scrapbooks of the Dionne quintuplets, one of Portenier's research areas. This collection also includes archived websites affiliated with the department.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by the University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology at the date of processing.
Finding aid available in repository.
This material was received from University of Wyoming. Department of Psychology in 1996.
Website materials in this collection were captured by the University of Wyoming's University Archives from 2019-ongoing.
The collection was processed by Kayci Kruhmin in November 2021.
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