Verlin Hinsz, NDSU professor of psychology, will receive the 54th Faculty Lectureship Award. Considered one of the most prestigious of NDSU’s awards, the lectureship recognizes sustained professional excellence in teaching, scholarly and creative achievement, and service. 

As part of the award, Hinsz will discuss how the characteristics of group members combine and are transformed to create a shared group response during “Schemes and Scheming: How Groups Think, Feel and Decide,” a presentation scheduled for Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Memorial Union Great Room.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hinsz has confronted questions about social conformity and authority since he was a boy. He has spent his life investigating how people work together, and the process of group decision-making.

Hinsz has been a professor of psychology at NDSU since 1983. He has been involved in nearly 200 national and international research presentations in his career. Hinsz also is an award-winning mentor to NDSU students and faculty.

He recently was selected to serve as the Banco Santander Chair of Excellence in the Department of Business Administration at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. From January through July of this year, he will perform research and use his expertise to help university faculty and students advance their research approaches, while increasing understanding of his research.

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