Megan L.

Bradson
(610) 476-8904
megan.bradson16@gmail.com
Campus Address:
255 E. Beaver Ave. Apt. #801
State College, PA 16801
Objective

Permanent Address
242 Barren Road
Media, PA 19063

To obtain a summer internship at a veterans medical facility where I can apply my knowledge of clinical neuropsychology and expand
my knowledge of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Education
The Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Neuroscience Option
Rehabilitation and Human Service Minor
GPA: 3.86

University Park, PA
May 2018

Paterno Fellows Program

Penn State, College of Liberal Arts
Honors Program including advanced academic course work, thesis, study abroad and/or internship, ethics study, and leadership/service
commitment.

Clinical Experience
Penn States Sports Concussion Research Lab
Research Assistant

September 2014 present

Administer neuropsychological concussion battery to student-athletes and incentive battery to healthy controls
Experience in scoring data, data entry and analysis using SPSS Statistics Software
Recruiting former athletes to participate in genetics study; in charge of collection and management of this data
Conducting my own independent research study under the supervision of Dr. Peter Arnett regarding the relationship
between the premorbid history of headaches and outcome post-concussion in a sample of college student-athletes

Publications

Co-author of journal article entitled Evaluating the Test-Retest Reliability of Symptom Indices Associated with the PostConcussion Symptom Scale, submitted to the 2017 International Neuropsychological Society Conference
Conducting literature search as a co-author of a chapter in a neuropsychological textbook under the supervision of Dr. Arnett

Academic Experience
Penn State Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

January 2016 May 2016

Selected from 200 students to hold one of five undergraduate teaching assistant positions for a course on an Introduction to
Personality Psychology
Recorded attendance in addition to grading in-class activities and case studies

Volunteer Experience
Penn State Fraternity & Sorority Life Service Immersion Trip
Volunteer

Worked at a local food pantry, unloaded and repackaged canned and boxed food items into boxes for the underprivileged to
receive as their monthly food supply
Partnered with Arc of Greater New Orleans to harvest and maintain a local produce farm in addition to sorting and repackaging
recycled Mardi Gras beads
Drained trash receptacles to minimize the mosquito prevalence and other water-borne illnesses in the Lower Ninth Ward

Mission Trip
Volunteer

Involvement

New Orleans, Louisiana

May 2016

Managua, Nicaragua
June - July 2016

Partnered with Vida Joven de Nicaragua (Young Life)

Performed community outreach activities including painting murals, planting gardens, and cleaning local schools
Completed social enrichment activities with local children and families
Painted houses for persons with disabilities
Built concrete block room as an addition to a house using hand-mixed concrete and mortar
Founding sister of the Penn State chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma
Member of Penn States Junior Panhellenic Council, an shadowing opportunity for aspiring Panhellenic executive members
Psi Chi: National Honor Society in Psychology
Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society