Dr. Refinetti is Professor of Psychology and Academic Dean at the University of South Carolina (Salkehatchie satellite campus, with teaching sites in Allendale and Walterboro, South Carolina).

He has been teaching at the university level since 1986. He has taught undergraduate courses on Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology, History and Systems of Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, Sensation and Perception, Human Sexuality, and Biological Rhythms. He has taught graduate courses on Physiological Psychology and on Sensation and Perception. He prides himself on delivering well- researched and well-organized lectures (making use of multimedia resources and computer technology) and on encouraging critical thinking by stimulating classroom discussions and by assigning home work with broader implications.

He created (and supervised for four years) the undergraduate program in Biological Psychology at the College of William & Mary. This program allowed students with interdisciplinary interests in the neurosciences to choose an undergraduate major composed of biology and psychology courses (along with other natural science courses).

He has served as freshman advisor and major advisor for hundreds of students. He has also served as research mentor for numerous undergraduate and graduate students. He believes deeply in the improvement of a professor's teaching qualifications as a result of the maintenance of an active research program as well as in the improvement of the professor's research program as a result of constant interaction with students in the laboratory and in the classroom setting.

The following are some of Dr. Refinetti's former advisees:

A full list of his past research advisees is available elsewhere in this web site. For the full list, please visit the People section.

Grade School Outreach

Dr. Refinetti participates in the Society for Neuroscience's Neuroscientist-Teacher Partner Program, which partners K-12 educators with Society members who are willing to share knowledge and raise children's interest in the nervous system. In 2008, and again in 2009 and 2010, he visited Polo Road Elementary School (in Columbia, South Carolina) and gave presentations to 4th and 5th grade classes.

Awards

• Carolina Trustee Professorship (awarded by the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina in 2006)
  
  
• South Carolina Governor's Distinguished Professor (awarded by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education in 2004)

Wikipedia

• The URL for Dr. Refinetti's entry in Wikipedia is:
  http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinetti