Commencement Speaker
Summer Commencement 2008
George Potts, professor and former interim dean of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
George Potts is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Denver. He served as chair of the psychology department from 1993-2001 and chair of the Marsico Steering Committee from 2002-2005. He also just completed a 3-year term as interim dean of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Professor Potts received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. He taught at Dartmouth College and held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Indiana University before joining the DU faculty in 1976.
His research explores the constructive nature of memory and perception and the memory and perceptual errors that these process can introduce. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Education.
He teaches the psychology department’s foundation-level course in the social sciences; a graduate course on how to teach psychology; and graduate and undergraduate courses on statistics, cognition, and memory.