Cari Drolet, a May 2012 graduate of Albion College, was honored earlier this spring for several years of dedication to regional victims of sexual assault. Sexual Assault Services of Calhoun County (SAS) presented Drolet the Douglas Melhorn Memorial Award for Outstanding Community Volunteerism and Service at its annual meeting in April.
Individuals can spend a lifetime trying to understand why it's so easy to complete a crossword puzzle one day, and a struggle to figure out a single clue the next.
According to a study co-authored by Albion College psychological sciences professor Mareike Wieth and recently published in the journal Thinking & Reasoning, the answer could be as simple as the time of day the individual is working on that puzzle.
The optimal time to complete creative tasks, it turns out, runs opposite to the belief that it's best to tackle the problem when you're well rested. Therefore, the best time for a "morning person" to sit down with that puzzle is in the afternoon, while "night owls" do their best creative thinking in the morning.
Research by Mareike Wieth, assistant professor of psychological science at Albion College, has landed coverage in several media outlets including Men’s Health magazine and the British Broadcasting Company World Service. Wieth’s recent study asked 428 students to deem themselves night owls or morning larks then quizzed them on six problem-solving tasks at different times of the day. Early birds quizzed in the p.m. and night owls quizzed in the morning performed the best on insight-based questions that required some original thought.
As a member of the Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service and with a concentration in human services, it's no wonder Erin Davis wanted an internship that could give her a wide array of experiences. "I've always been interested in helping others and it was nice to get an internship in which I could see things firsthand and work with college students at the same time," Davis said.
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