This fall Andrews welcomed back Dana Kendall as an assistant professor of psychology. Kendall returns to the Behavioral Sciences Department, where she spent her undergraduate years from 1995 to 1999. "I liked it so much, I had to come back," she said.

After graduating from Andrews in 1999, Kendall attended graduate school at the University of Central Florida, where she specialized in industrial/organizational psychology. For her graduate research, Kendall conducted a study in which she paired freshmen with seniors in an anonymous, online mentoring program. She was aided by her husband Scott, a computer programmer, who set up the technical end of the experiment.

Kendall hopes to set up a similar mentoring program at Andrews. Rather than teaming up students with other students, however, Kendall envisions a system that connects students with alumni out in the working world. She also hopes to initiate various support groups on campus, to reach out to people in the Adventist church who suffer from problems that they keep to themselves. "If you are not broken, why do you need any grace?" she asks. "The Bible is so clear about comforting one another," Kendall says. "I don't think we do that as much as we could.

"Psychology is just such a fascinating field, and so intertwined with spirituality, mind and heart," says Kendall. "I like to get students to stretch their minds."

Robert Moncrieff, student news writer, University Relations