DSLCC Hosts Talk on Effects of Sleep on Health October 6
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Clifton Forge, VA (Sept. 21, 2017) - Dabney S. Lancaster Community College will host a special presentation, “Sleep and Exercise Effects on Stress, Health, and Well Being”, by noted psychologist Dr. June J. Pilcher on Friday, October 6, from 9:30 to 10:30 am, on the DSLCC Clifton Forge campus in Warren Hall, room 424.
Dr. Pilcher is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Clemson University. She is passionately dedicated to teaching and research with numerous graduate and undergraduate student collaborators. She earned her Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the University of Chicago in 1989.
Well before her tenure at Clemson, Dr. Pilcher was a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, as well as an officer and research psychologist with the U.S. Army. Dr. Pilcher has earned an international reputation for her research on the effects of sleep deprivation in humans and has recently added studying the effects of sedentary behavior on stress, health, and well-being.
She was selected as a Fellow by the Association for Psychological Science, the primary national association for research psychologists, and was the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar 2011-2012 at the University of Vienna and the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria. She is currently a candidate on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for Public/Global Health. She enjoys speaking to all types of audiences about the human brain, sleep, and physical activity.
Dr. Pilcher is visiting the area as a Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society Distinguished Lecturer. She will give a similar talk, “Sleep: The Pattern of Life”, to the Greenbrier Valley Chapter at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, WV, at noon on October 6.
The talk at DSLCC is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the DSLCC Office of Academic Affairs at (540) 863-2910.
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