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, History and Systems of Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, Physiological Psychology, 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 dis- cussions 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.

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. Some of his former advisees at various universities were:

A full list of his past research advisees is available elsewhere (click here to see it).

Awards

   Carolina Trustee Professorship (2006)
   South Carolina Governor's Distinguished Professor (2004)