Services set for longtime psychology faculty member Jim Snyder Services set for longtime psychology faculty member Jim Snyder

A memorial service for Jim Snyder will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, in 127 Jabara Hall. He passed away Sunday night, Sept. 11. He was 70. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in his name to the WSU Foundation for support of psychology students. Snyder was committed to both graduate and undergraduate teaching. He loved his students and was very dedicated to them. Snyder brought in more than $6 million in outside research funding and published 100 professional papers/chapters, most of it in his later years. He also was active in the community.

Jim and his wife, Nancy, came to WSU in 1977. Jim taught in the spring semester 2016, and he was still advising graduate students in July. This spring he and his colleague Tom Dishion from Arizona State published "The Oxford Handbook of Coercive Relationship Dynamics," from Oxford University Press.

Snyder was the recipient of the 2014 Child Champion award from Child Start for his work with Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

Snyder also holds the Erker Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology.