Our goal for this club is to create an open environment for students to learn, discuss different asp

Welcome!

The goal of our club is to build a welcoming environment to learn and discuss different aspects of the science behind what makes people happier - as well as to create a space for like-minded students to get to know each other. Let's all learn how to live our best, happiest lives together!  All UO students are welcome!

Our Club is associated with BI 170: Happiness - A Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective

BI 170: Happiness - A Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective is offered each Fall and Spring Term at the University of Oregon and is taught by the club's faculty advisor, Professor David A. McCormick. The course offers a science-based curriculum with practical strategies on how to live "the good life." A website for the class is linked below and provides an outline of each of the course's lectures and content. Feel free to contact us for more information about this class! :-)

www.happyneurons.org

Meet the team

Sophie Boling

  • Positive Psychology Club President 
  •  Pursuing a Degree in Psychology & Minoring in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship
  • Loves Rock Climbing, Playing the Guitar and the Piano, and Hiking
  • Leads the sound baths on campus! 

Jazmin Vieyra

  • Positive Psychology Club Vice President
  • Pursuing a Degree in Psychology with minors in Crim, legal studies, + Spanish 
  • My pastimes: hiking, running, and studying for the LSAT. I love being around ppl and rock music
  • I volunteer at the juvenile
    Courthouse and am passionate
    about forensics, advocacy and
    want to be a forensic psychologist.

Mia Selene Rodriguez

  • Positive Psychology Club Outreach Coordinator
  • I’m currently a Junior at UO studying Psychology and Neuroscience!
  • I love house music, activism, rock climbing, reading, watching new girl, cafe-hopping, and spending time with my loved ones!
  • This summer I spent my time working as a coach for a grassroots community health organization in Chicago! There, I educated youth on the historical racial, mental, physical, and social discrimination that is ever-present in our minoritized communities. From there we fostered young activists! It was a pretty badass job and I hope to bring everything I learned there to UO.

Isabella Anderson

  • Positive Psychology Social Media Manager
  • I’m currently a Junior at UO studying Psych!
  • I worked at Boys and Girls Club over the summer, where I coached middle school girls volleyball. I also did private coaching on the side!
  • I love working out, spending time with my friends and family, traveling, pop music, the beach, and going to football and volleyball games!

Edgar Martinez Aveleyra

  • Positive Psychology Club Researcher
  • I’m currently a Junior at UO studying psychology
  • I’ve loved traveling to Europe, Mexico and Chicago these past few years.
  • I’m blessed to be a 6ft curly head Mexican. 

Nate Saracino

  • Positive Psychology Club Researcher
  • I’m a senior Studying Psychology!
  • Particularly interested in psychopathology: trauma; resilience, etc
  • Want to pursue a Phd in Clinical Psychology (neuropsych?)
  • Favorite Positive Psych Memory: All of them

Julian Wagner

  • Positive Psychology Club Researcher
  • I’m a senior Studying Psychology!
  • Particularly interested in psychopathology: trauma; resilience, etc
  • Want to pursue a Phd in Clinical Psychology (neuropsych?)
  • Favorite Positive Psych Memory: All of them

David McCormick

  • Director of the Institute of Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience of Happiness Professor
  • Positive Psychology Club Advisor
  • Discovered a Part of the Brain Involved in Classical Conditioning!

Luna Dare

  • Positive Psychology Club Founder 
  • UO 2024 Graduate
  • Majored in Psychology & Minored in Sociology
  • Lived in Australia For 4 Years!