Dr. Don Lucas
About Dr. Don Lucas
Institute: Science & Technology
Education:
Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois.
Ph.D. Psychology/Neuroscience and Behavior (August 1994).
Doctoral candidacy exam passed (August 1992).
M.A. Psychology (December 1991).
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.
B.S. Psychology (May 1989).
Preference:
All students?
Bio:
Dr. Don Lucas, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology and the coordinator of the psychology department at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas. He is a fellow of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
Dr. Lucas or Dr. Don, as his students affectionately refer to him, is the author of the book, Being: Your Happiness, Pleasure, and Contentment; and the author of the teaching modules, The Psychology of Human Sexuality and Human Sexual Anatomy and Physiology, published on nobaproject.com.
His teaching has been featured by The San Antonio Express News, SA Scene Magazine, KENS5 CBS, and KSAT12 ABC; his teaching has earned him several awards, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Award: The oldest and most prestigious teaching award for higher education in the state of Texas.
Dr. Don hosts 5MIweekly, a virtual science-based sex education course on YouTube, composed of original and pedagogically interactive videos. 5MIweekly has over a million views and thousands of subscribers. Human sexuality instructors from more than a dozen states and multiple countries use 5MIweekly’s videos within their classes. Additionally, 5MIweekly is on the professionally-reviewed learning platform Merlot and consistently is being shared by a variety of sex therapists and counselors.
When not teaching or doing research, Dr. Don likely can be found either doing Wonderments or writing about Wonderments on his Medium channel (https://medium.com/@wonderments/). Intertwining novelty and contentment, Wonderments are autotelic experiences, and can take the form of walking every aisle of every San Antonio HEB, eating only McRib’s, cannonballing in every San Antonio public swimming pool, climbing 1,000 flights of stairs, giving something to every San Antonio Goodwill, doing 10,000 pushups, riding all of San Antonio’s VIA bus routes, surviving an abject poverty diet, visiting all of San Antonio’s chocolate shops, complimenting 50 strangers, hiking every San Antonio park trail, burning 10,000 calories in a single day, or drinking 62 different pots of teas in a month’s time.
Discovered by Dr. Don, Wonderments are the basis of human growth, development, and learning.