Smith Expert on Compulsive Hoarding to Lecture

At 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 26, Randy O. Frost, Harold Edward and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology, will speak on "Ownership Gone Awry: Compulsive Hoarding and the Fourth Circle of Hell" in Wright Hall Auditorium. A reception will follow in Wright Hall Common Room.

Frost, who has gained national media attention in recent years for his exploration of obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding behavior, is one of four recently chaired Smith College professors to give lectures to inaugurate their new positions.

Joining Smith's department of psychology in 1977, Frost received his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kansas. His work has been featured on the ABC News program "20/20," as well as in "Reader's Digest," "McCall's" and numerous national newspapers. A member of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Frost was a delegate to the Behavior Therapy Project in the People's Republic of China in 1982.

The next lecture in the Chaired Professor series will be given by Domenico Grasso, founding director of Smith's Picker Program in Engineering and Technology, on Thursday, March 29.

Contact: Marti Hobbes, mhobbes@smith.edu

February 23, 2001