DEPARTMENT
OF PSYCHOLOGY
THE WEEKLY MEMO
MARCH 14, 2008 |
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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ORAL
EXAMINATIONS
(Held in HUM 228 unless otherwise noted)
March 18, 2008
1:00 p.m. |
Iris Balodis, Ph.D.
Candidate
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Affective Processing in Acute Alcohol Intoxication
Supervisor: M. Cella Olmstead
External Examiner: Dr. Martin Zack, CAMH, University of Toronto |
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MEETINGS
(Held in HUM 228 unless otherwise noted)
| Mar. 18, 2008 |
Undergraduate Committee
*Location:Conference Room |
10:00 a.m. |
| Mar. 20, 2008 |
Departmental Committee |
3:30 p.m. |
| Mar. 27, 2008 |
Graduate Committee Meeting |
3:30 p.m. |
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OFFICE HOURS
Support staff offices will be closing at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 20th. The Department will be closed on Friday, March 21, 2008 for Good
Friday. Offices are open on Monday, March 24 (Easter Monday) from
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Closed from 12:00 - 1:00p.m. for lunch.
CONDOLENCES
INNES, Margaret Rose - Retired, Queen's University Department of Psychology and Policy Studies.
After a brief illness at the Kingston General Hospital on Monday, March 3, 2008. The former Margaret Rose Sunman, in her 69th year. Beloved wife of 48 years to George Innes. Dear sister of David Sunman and his wife Fleta of Belleville and remembered fondly by her nephew Steven Wilson and her niece Susan Wilson both of Toronto. Predeceased by her parents W.O.1 William H. Sunman and Gertrude Smith and by her sister Grace Wilson. In keeping with Marg's wishes, there will be no service and cremation immediate. A private interment will take place at Cataraqui Cemetery in the spring. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations made to a charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family (Donations by cheque only please).
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DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES
Dr. Marc Hauser, Harvard University, April 4, 2008, Dupuis Auditorium, 10:00
a.m. Title: Evolving a language faculty.
Seminars/Talks: http://psyc.queensu.ca/seminars.htm
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2008 APA Student Awards Program (Research & Travel Funding)
APA Student Travel Awards (deadline: Arpil 1, 2008), APA Science Student Council Early Research Award (deadline: August 22, 2008) and APA Dissertation Research Awards and the APF/Todd E. Husted Memorial Award (deadline: September 15, 2008). For more details, includng eligibility requirements and application materials, visit: http://www.apa.org/science/awards.html
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RESEARCH
Notice to Potential Applicants to the Major Resources Support (MRS) Grants Competition - for the March 2009 competition, deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent is May 1, 2008. Further information see
Notice.
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SEMINARS/TALKS
AMS (Queen's) MHAC panel discussion - The Mental Health Awareness Committee would like to invite you to Drugs vs Hugs: a panel discussion on the integration of pharmacotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of depression. The discussin will feature two psychiatrists and two psychologists from the Queen's community including Dr. Roumen Milev, Dr. Mike Condra, Dr. Steven McNevin and Dr. Chuck Vetere. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 19th at 5:30 p.m. in Stirling Hall D. This will be a great avenue to get students and faculty more aware of the mental health issues facing students on campus, in the hopes that by facilitating educaton we can reduce the stigman surrounding mental health. Hope to see you there!
Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series - Thursday, March 20, Watson Hall, Room 517 @4:30 p.m. Michael Luntley, University of Warwick, "Judgement, Individualism and the Source of Order". Everyone welcome.
Biology
Seminars
Seminar schedule for 2007/08 can be viewed at http://biology.queensu.ca/seminars/dss.html.
John M. Sherwood Memorial Lecture in History of Science and Technology
Hacking Back: Informaton Security in Support of Human Rights, Ron Deibert, Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 7:30 p.m. School of Policy Studies, Room 202.
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JOB
POSTINGS
University of New Brunswick, Department of Psychology invites applications
for an 8 month term sabbatical replacemnt positon in Psychology at the Lecturer or Assistant Professor level commencing September 1, 2008. Deadline for receipt of applications is April 15, 2008. Job ad
Navigant Consulting is a management consulting firm with offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and throughout the U.S. We are seeking a researcher fluent in SPSS for some immediate, short-term work conducting survey analysis, with potential future work on an as-needed basis over the next several months. Work can be done remotely, but the individual must have access to SPSS.
Immediate analysis will include creation of values for new variables based on respondent answers to multiple survey questions, trouble-shooting of the survey dataset for questionnaire and/or survey implementation errors, and working with consultants to assess the meaning of survey results. Must be fluent in SPSS (current dataset is in version 16.0), especially in manipulating data and creating variables through use of if-then logic.
If you have relevant experience and are interested in this opportunity, please e:mail your contact details and a brief summary of your SPSS experience to Todd Williams (613 544 7941) at the following address:
twilliams@navigantconsulting.com
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Previous Editions:
2005
2006
2007
March 7, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/mar7_08.html
Feb. 29, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/feb29_08.html
Feb. 22, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/feb22_08.html
Feb. 15, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/feb15_08.html
Feb. 08, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/feb08_08.html
Feb. 01, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/feb01_08.html
Jan. 25, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/jan25_08.html
Jan. 18, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/jan18_08.html
Jan. 11, 2008 - http://psyc.queensu.ca/wkmemo/jan11_08.html
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