Olivia Smith
2022- 2023 Pasewark Winner
Olivia Smith is an Experimental Psychology graduate student from Northeast Arkansas. She received her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Criminology from Arkansas State University, where she also earned her M.S. in Psychological Science in 2018. Olivia joined the Psychology and Law lab at the University of Wyoming in the Fall of 2019. Broadly, her research interests include social psychological factors impacting jury decision making, public perceptions of criminal justice reform, and lay understanding of legal concepts and processes. Olivia will graduate in the Spring of 2023 and plans to pursue a career in academia.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.