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Somer earned her B.A. in Psychology at Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2017 and her M.A. in Cognitive and Social Processes at Ball State University in 2020. 

Somer assists students with degree audit guidance, course registration/course sequencing, graduation planning, goal identification, campus policies/procedures, and PFW resources. 

Michelle Drouin received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and her B.A. from Cornell University. Broadly, her research focuses on sexuality, interpersonal relationships, and technology with a particular research focus on areas of forensic psychology, including interpersonal violence and sexual crimes. She has extensive consulting and speaking experience in the areas of science, law, and education.

Areas of Interest: sexuality, intimate partner violence, sexual consent, forensic psychology, sex assault, sex offenders, internet sex stings, relationships, communication, social media, memory, alcohol and memory

Craig Hill obtained a Ph.D. in social psychology at The University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He was a research scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington before coming to Purdue Fort Wayne in 1991.  He has a number of publications on human sexuality, personality factors in sexual motivation, gender issues, intimate relationships, social and personality factors involved in health and wellness, and affiliation motivation.

Areas of Interest: implicit and explicit sexual motivation, personality factors involved in sexual motivation, reactions to partner desire for specific types of emotional experiences in sexual interactions, social and personality psychology, LGBT+ psychology

Daren Kaiser received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Kentucky in 2000. He teaches courses in elementary psychology, research methods, learning and behavior, and biopsychology. His research interest is in animal cognition.

Areas of Interest: animal learning, animal cognition, biopsychology

Amy Perkins received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in Experimental Psychology, where her research focused on prenatal alcohol exposure. After that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Binghamton University where she studied brain aging. Her current research program evaluates the long term behavioral and neurochemical effects of prenatal alcohol exposure. 

Areas of Interest: prenatal alcohol exposure, behavioral neuroscience, neurochemistry, brain development