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FYI… if you are serious about graduate school come and talk to me about this.

Undergraduate Statistics Program Now Taking Applications!

APA’s Advanced Statistical Training in Psychology program is now open for applications! This exceptional opportunity is designed for students who will be undergraduate seniors in the 2008-2009 academic year. It is an ideal way to learn more about statistics at a time when many students are thinking about graduate school. Successful applicants are those who have firm plans to pursue a graduate degree in psychological science.

Up to 20 students will be selected to participate in this intensive, 9-day, hands-on seminar. Featured activities include lectures, SPSS activities, hands-on activities, discussions about graduate school, as well as plenty of fun!

The ASTP targets students who are from traditionally underrepresented groups in psychology. For purposes of this program, the definition of underrepresented groups is intentionally broad, including students who are members of ethnic minority groups, first generation college students, and students who have had to overcome other kinds of social, physical, or economic barriers on the road to academic excellence.

ASTP will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, July 12 – 20. Housing, meals, instruction, labs, and some social events are covered for all students. Participants will pay a $200 registration fee and provide for their own travel. Financial need should not be a barrier to anyone’s participation. For those with financial need, scholarship support is available for travel as well as for the registration fee.

The deadline for applications is Monday, March 17. Visit www.apa.org/science/astp.html for more information about the program and the application requirements.

Scholars,

I (potentually) get the honor of being in a video that the university is putting together for recruitment. I guess my hair allows me to represent diversity (I’m sure it’s not the white skin or maleness). I would like to recreate an exercise I do in all my intro psych class… it involves measuring the speed of neural conduction and is a hands on activity.

If you would like to be in the video (and potentually interviewed) be in the psych hallway Monday at 12:15.

In addition to making you famous, you will also learn (or relearn in some instances) a little about neural impulses.

XOXOX, prof_hollywood

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So there is a lot of discussion about a new presentation tool called slideshare. Check it out and the commentary on CogDogBlog and TechCrunch.

ALSO…. don’t forget about our old friend thumbstacks…. and you can try Empressr too.

Hello Scholars.

It’s shaping up to be a very busy week.

On Monday we have a psych club meeting. Dr. Lloyd will present on applying for graduate school. Check it out! I’ll be at a meeting on civic engagement.

On Wednesday CLC will meet to plan out the recycling mission in complete detail. I’ll be at the faculty meeting in support of the new Quality Enhancement Plan ( INFORMATION LITERACY!!!!!!!!). Let me know what you need from me. I’m working on the recycling bins as we speak.

In addition, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 there will be a speaker up in the HNS auditorium speaking on, “Mitochondrial DNA in diabetes, function and malfunction”. I want to check that out. Sounds good.

Intro Psych will be covering Sensation and Perception. The Collaborative Knowledge Development learning community will be covering that too and will be giving their PPT presentation of their survey results on Wednesday. Does anyone need help?

Stats will continue to work on SPSS projects. We’ll catch up to our textbook work on SPSS, then start on independent sample t-tests.

Cognition will dive into a variety of topics related to long-term memory as we finish chapter 5 and start on chapter 6. By the end of the end of the week you guys want be able to believe anything anymore, least of all, your memory. It’s gonna be great fun!

So I’m heading out to Savannah for an information literacy conference.

I hope to return with lots of new torture techniques
If you’ve been in class, then you know what you are supposed to do.

Have a good weekend.

After working through the first 3 sections of the spss tutorial ( Introduction, Using the Help System, & Reading Data) go to our class blog page.

Go down to the first lab assignment. You’ll find the following link that will take you to David Howell’s website. Get the sex data from his site into the SPSS editor and save it to your P: Drive. We’ll run some descriptives on it soon.

Dear Calculating Gurus,

Per our discussion in class, we’ll be meeting in the HNS 152 lab to do some SPSS work.

Thanks Kim!

Psychology Club
9/25/06 Talking points

Introduction/Officer Elections
President: Meg Cary
Vice President: Sarah Deacon
Secretary/Assistant Treasurer: Kim Burnette
Treasurer: Christy Christmas

Possible Activities for ’06/07 School Year
* Grad School Workshop
* Social Activities (with Sociology Club?)
* Fundraisers

• Battle of the Sexes?
• Queen for a Day?

* SEPA in spring
* Volunteering with Community Helping Place
* Guest Speakers

• Recent NGCSU Graduates
• Clinical Psychologists

* Tour of Laurelwood

The next Psyc Club meeting will be Monday, October 2nd. All meetings will be held on the first Monday of each month at 12:15pm. Everyone bring a friend!

The initial meeting of the 2006 Psychology GRE Study Group will be held Wednesday, September 27th at 11:00am in Newton Oaks 015.

EDIT — Our next meeting will be Monday the 9th of October because of inventory in our reserved room.

Scholars,

Anyone doing anything? I know of a few that are… check out the call for research from the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Here’s the link… everything needs to be in by Dec 1.