April 7, 2026
Gabe Sevde is a psychology major with minors in Spanish and statistics. He will graduate in spring 2026 and attend graduate school at Minnesota State University.
Sevde’s future goals center around industrial organizational psychology, which is used to prove what works within workplaces. He decided to add a statistics minor because it’s “useful to have people who are both capable in statistics and also able to communicate.”
As a statistics minor, Sevde has some favorite courses:
- Regression for Social and Behavioral Research (STAT 4820) with teaching professor Laura Ziegler, who used understanding of the learning process to meaningfully design the course. Within the course, Sevde was able to identify how to create an illustration and research poster to better understand the data and results.
- Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (STAT 4770) with associate professor Amy Froelich, who Sevde identified as someone who loves what she teaches while teaching it well.
Outside of courses, Sevde is involved in the undergraduate statistics and psychology clubs.
He has also had internships that utilized his understanding of statistics.
- While at the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS), Sevde created a database of translation devices, giving companies the ability to identify which option works best based on their requirements.
- When interning at Exceptional Leaders, Sevde created a database for consulting clients and employee training program and manual on using the database.