The Annual Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship of $3000 is designed to assist a student attending an accredited college or university who wishes to pursue the academic study of the science of parapsychology. Applicants must demonstrate a previous interest in parapsychology by including a sample of writings on the subject with the application form. Browse this section of the website for the application form, and for information about the previous winners. The 2008 Garrett Scholars In 2008, the Parapsychology Foundation awarded two Garrett Scholarships. Bryan Williams is a Native American Study of the Laguna tribe completing his degree program at the University of New Mexico, where his undergraduate studies have focused on physiological psychology and physics. He is a student affiliate of the Parapsychological Association and a student member of the Society for Scientific Exploration. He has previously contributed independent analyses to the Global Consciousness Project headed by Dr. Roger Nelson of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, and was the 2003 recipient of the Charles T. and Judith A. Tart Student Incentive Award for a project on field RNG studies of mind-matter interaction-related “group consciusness” effects. He continues to pursue this work today, focusing on mass group events of Local interest in the area around his howntown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In line with his studies in physiological psychology, Williams is also working with Dr. William Roll of the University of West Georgia in the effort to re-examine and interpret the current data relating to the possible neuropsychological correlates of psi in both normal and special subjects. Part of their work on this topic will appear in a contributed article for the upcoming anthology Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, Shamans, and Other Extraordinary People, edited by Dr. Stanley Krippner, Dr. Harrid Friedman, and Christian Gaden Jensen. Renaud Evrard is a doctoral student in the University of Rouen, France, and member of the Student Group of the Institut Métapsychique International since 2004. His Ph.D. work includes a review of the literature on clinical parapsychology, focusing on the psychodynamic approach, with specific interest in the area of differential diagnosis. The purpose of his research is to develop and test a tool to be used in semi-structured diagnostic interviews for people who are living with exceptional experiences. The main issue to be addressed is the assessment of the link between exceptional experiences and psychosis which seems to be influenced by the epistemological background of traditional and modern psychiatry. With a description of hallucinations and delusions that are not exclusively associated with psychosis, it seems that the assumed relationship between exceptional experiences and psychosis is significantly weakened. This could then make room for a rehabilitation of the early studies of psychical researchers on the general population and on hysterical personalities. For more information go to: http://metapsychique.blogspot.com

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