{"id":32,"date":"2016-09-13T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:58:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference History"},"content":{"rendered":"

ILLOWA is one of oldest continuing undergraduate psychological research conferences in the United States. Established 1973, ILLOWA was created when\u00a0James Joyce\u00a0and\u00a0Kermit Hoyenga\u00a0of\u00a0Western Illinois University,\u00a0Dean Wright\u00a0of\u00a0Monmouth College and\u00a0Gary Francois\u00a0of\u00a0Knox College\u00a0established a mechanism by which local colleges and universities could enhance interaction with each other and provide an educational research experience for their students.<\/p>\n

ILLOWA has since expanded over to include nine educational institutions in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. ILLOWA\u00a0established its first website in 1998, at\u00a0Culver-Stockton (Mo.) College. Since fall 2001, undergraduates who present at ILLOWA can also submit their papers for possible inclusion in the\u00a0Journal of Psychological Inquiry<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conference’s programming format has remained relatively unchanged over the years in that only undergraduates are allowed to present their findings from\u00a0empirical\u00a0research projects. Each year the conferences is hosted by a different institution, features a keynote speaker, and usually take place the Saturday preceding the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association<\/a>. The date of the convention, if scheduling permits, is the Saturday before the Midwestern Psychological Association\u2019s annual convention.<\/p>\n

The ILLOWA conference has been mentioned in\u00a0Teaching of Psychology<\/em>,\u00a0Eye on Psi Chi<\/em> and in the\u00a0APA\u00a0Monitor<\/em>. Additionally, ILLOWA has been cited as one of the major undergraduate conferences in the United States. See: Smith and Davis (2010)\u00a0The psychologist as a detective: An introduction to conducting research in psychology (5th Ed.).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"JamesJames Joyce
\nWestern Illinois University<\/td>\n		\"KermitKermit Hoyenga
\nWestern Illinois University<\/td>\n		\"DeanDean Wright
\nMonmouth College<\/td>\n		\"GaryGary Francois
\nKnox College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Conference Locations<\/h3>\n
    \n
  • Augustana College<\/strong> – 1976, 1986, 1990, 1995, 2004,<\/li>\n
  • Cornell College<\/strong> – 1985<\/li>\n
  • Culver-Stockton College<\/strong> – 1998, 2007, 2013, 2020*<\/li>\n
  • Eureka College<\/strong> – 2003, 2012, 2018, 2023<\/li>\n
  • Knox College<\/strong> – 1977, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2009, 2015, 2019, 2024<\/li>\n
  • Monmouth College<\/strong> – 1975, 1978, 1982, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • St. Ambrose University<\/strong> – 1981, 1992, 2001, \u00a02008, 2014,<\/li>\n
  • Western Illinois University<\/strong> – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2021*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    *Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ILLOWA is one of oldest continuing undergraduate psychological research conferences in the United States. Established 1973, ILLOWA was created when\u00a0James Joyce\u00a0and\u00a0Kermit Hoyenga\u00a0of\u00a0Western Illinois University,\u00a0Dean Wright\u00a0of\u00a0Monmouth College and\u00a0Gary Francois\u00a0of\u00a0Knox College\u00a0established a mechanism by which local colleges and universities could enhance interaction with each other and provide an educational research experience for their students. ILLOWA has since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.monm.edu\/illowa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}