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Scrapbook & Recent Events - Number 11
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Fall 2005 semester

Fall Semester 2005 (July-December)
POSITION AVAILABLE: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology; for 2006-07 academic year - search suspended
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! Spring 2006 Advanced Lab and Future Labs P421: Social Psychology Lab is being offered in Spring 2006. Authorization to register for P421 (and all advanced labs) is required. Those wishing to enroll in Social Psychology Lab must also complete P211, P354, and P403 prior to Spring 2006 and must also have already completed one of the following: P320, P216, P316, P331. You must contact and meet with Dr. Ladd to receive permission (i.e., authorization) to register for his lab before you register for Spring 2006 classes. Important Information about Advanced Labs in the coming semesters: Future schedules will appear in a soon-to-be revised 5-year plan for psychology courses - A lab for Social and Developmental Psychology will be offered each semester, with additional labs for Community Psychology and Learning and Cognition in scheduled semesters (see the 5-yr plan). In the next few semesters, either P421 (Social) or P429 (Developmental) Lab will be offered each semester. Students may conduct either social or developmental projects in these labs; prerequisite content courses for either social or developmental will be acceptable for enrollment. It is planned that a new lab, tentatively P437 Lab in Social and Developmental Psychology, will replace the two individual labs in the near future.	P421 Social Psychology Lab Advanced Lab for Spring 2006 Prerequisites for P421: P211, P354, P403, and one of the following content courses: P320, P216, P319, P331 must be completed prior to Spring 2006 and permission of the instructor/authorization to register Taught by: Dr. Kevin Ladd Class days/time: P421 - TR 4:00-5:15 pm Class number: 4042
New Addition to the Department Faculty
Dr. Michelle Verges joined the faculty in Psychology at IUSB beginning in the Fall 2005 semester. Michelle, a 2005 Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, is a Cognitive Psychologist. Her primary research interests are in knowledge representation, including how people represent common objects and interpersonal relationships. Welcome, Michelle!	Michelle Verges, Ph.D.
New 5-year Plan to be Posted!	A PDF file of our current 5-year plan of scheduled classes in the Department of Psychology at IUSB is posted. However, a number of personnel and curricular changes have occurred since that document was originally posted and therefore it will need to be revised to reflect planned offerings. A new, revised file of this 5-year plan information will be posted as soon as possible.
Psi Chi Announces Officers
IUSB Psi Chi Officers 2005-06 (left to right): Holly Janik, Alicia Richardson, Erin Ward, Valerie Suggs, Billie Newman, Trisha Metz IUSB Psi Chi Officers and Advisor 2005-06 (left to right): Alicia Richardson, Holly Janik, Erin Ward, Dr. Dennis Rodriguez (faculty advisor), Trisha Metz, Billie Newman, Valerie Suggs	The IUSB Chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society of Psychology, has elected its officers for the 2005-2006 academic year. They are as follows: Valerie Suggs & Erin Ward, Co-Presidents Billie Newman, Vice President Holly Janik, Secretary Trisha Metz, Treasurer Alicia Richardson, Public Relations Dennis Rodriguez is the faculty sponsor of Psi Chi. Psychology majors must meet GPA and other eligibility requirements. For more information, contact Dr. Rodriguez at pdrodrig@iusb.edu or 574-520-4396.
Psychology Faculty In News and Public Sources	Several IUSB Psychology faculty have appeared in public and news sources lately. Included among them are: Dr. Dé Bryant, who contributed a "Viewpoint" article for the November 11, 2005 issue of the all-university newspaper publication IU Home Pages. The article, titled "Beyond civic engagement to political action: 'Un-Freedoms'," appeared on page A2 of Volume 10, issue 5. (link here) Dr. Michelle Verges, was quoted and her picture appeared in an article in the November 2005 issue of the national newsletter/magazine publication gradPSYCH published by the American Psychological Association. The article, titled "Why do you want to teach? Experts offer tips on writing a philosophy of teaching statement'," appeared on page 16 of Volume 3, issue number 4. (link here) Dr. John McIntosh, who contributed an "American Democracy Project" radio commentary (and posted online as an ADPblog) on November 15, 2005. The audio commentary, titled "Suicide's legacy: Survivors of suicide," was broadcast 3 times on that day on WVPE-FM Radio (88.1, Public Radio, NPR); the audio will be posted online at a later date. (Other psychology faculty who have contributed audio commentaries to this series are Drs. Catherine Borshuk and Frank Fujita.) Dr. Dé Bryant Dr. Michelle Verges
Psychology Club Officers	Officers for the 2005-2006 academic year for Psychology Club are: President: Trisha A. Metz Vice President: Sarah Szucs Treasurer: Betty Blodgett Secretary: Holly R. Brown Faculty Advisor to the Psychology Club: Laura Talcott
Student Research	Congratulations to the students who attended and presented at the Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference held on December 2nd on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis. These students were working with and supervised by Drs. Carolyn Schult and Dennis Rodriguez. Tracy Moser ("Examination of Effects of Personal Body Weight on Attitudes Toward Others of vVarying Body Weights") and Alicia Richardson ("Jumbled Words and Reading Comprehension") made poster presentations (see pictures below) while Billie Newman made a paper presentation ("Impact of Emotional State on Learning and Memory"). Carrie Haney ("The Effects of Parenting Styles on Academic Success in College Students") took part in a Research Roundtable as well. Also attending was Erin Ward. Carrie and Tracy were supervised by Dr. Schult while Alicia, Billie, and Erin were Dr. Rodriguez's students. This represents great effort and hard work on the part of these student researchers. They and their faculty sponsor are congratulated for their work and effort! They were outstanding representatives of IUSB and the value we place on undergraduate research as well as research experience.
Fall 2005 Poster Sessions P435 Lab in Human Learning & Cognition The poster session was held on December 7 in the Psychology area of Wiekamp Hall. Pictures of the individual students and their posters are posted here. Dr. Dennis Rodriguez was the instructor of P435. P429 Lab in Developmental Psychology The P429 poster session took place in the psychology areas in Wiekamp on December 8. Individual students and their posters appear here. Dr. Carolyn Schult was the instructor of P429. Past posters may be seen in the psychology archives.
NOTICE: Change in Psychology Department Chair	Beginning January 1, 2006, Dr. Gwynn Mettetal will assume the duties of the Chair of the Department of Psychology at IUSB. Dr. John McIntosh, who had been serving as Chair for the Fall 2005 semester, will continue as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (he will teach one class each semester and one each summer in Psychology; he continues also as Professor of Psychology). Thanks to Dr. McIntosh for this past semester and the four year previous in which he served as Chair. Welcome to Dr. Mettetal in her new duties.
Psychology Faculty Publications 2005 Ram, N., Chow, S.-M., Bowles, R. P., Wang, L., Grimm, K., Fujita, Frank, & Nesselroade, J. R. (2005). Examining interindividual differences in cyclicity of pleasant and unpleasant affects using spectral analysis and item response modeling, Psychometrika, 70, [page numbers not yet available: Online version but not print version has appeared]. Chow, S.-M., Ram, N., Boker, S. M., Fujita, Frank, & Clore, G. (2005). Emotion as a thermostat: Representing emotion regulation using a damped oscillator model. Emotion, 5, 208-225. MacMillan, B., & Fujita, Frank. (2005). Predictors of success on the Dental Assisting National Board Exam. The Dental Assistant, March/April, 22-26. Fujita, Frank, & Diener, E. (2005). Life satisfaction set point: Stability and change, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88, 158-164. McIntosh, John L. (Ed.). (2005). Suicide 2002: Proceedings of American Association of Suicidology 35th annual conference [CD-ROM]. Washington, DC: American Association of Suicidology. [90 papers; 224 pages; Bethesda, MD/Washington, DC conference] Lester, D. McIntosh, John, & Rogers, J. R. (2005). Myths about suicide on the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire: An attempt to derive a scale. Psychological Reports, 96, 899-900. Mettetal, Gwynn & Sage, S. (2005). Teaching and evaluating dispositions in a preservice education course. In R.L. Smith, J. Hurst, & D. Smith (Eds.), The Passion of teaching: Dispositions in the school (pp. 123-134). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Education.
ADVISING All majors, minors, and associate degree students should be aware that the IUSB Psychology Department requires that all students be advised at least once each year by a faculty advisor. This advising session serves several important functions. Of course, it allows you to get advice about courses for the next and upcoming semesters. It also ensures that your advisor can attempt to monitor your movement toward your degree, both in psychology and with respect to other degree requirements. This will help to identify problem areas or omissions early so that you can address them and graduate without delay. Finally, advising can also provide you with imporant information and input regarding your career planning, résumé writing, and other developmental issues crucial to your life success. As you can see, advising is much more than just course selection. Please be advised regularly.
ALUMNI, ATTENTION! We would love to include information about our alumni as part of this scrapbook. If you are an IUSB Psychology Alumnus and would forward information about yourself, education, career, accomplishments, etc., we would be happy to post it here with your permission. Include a photograph and we will try to include it also. Please indicate your year of IUSB graduation. If you have accomplishments or other events you would like to see included here, please forward them to the department or to Dr. McIntosh.
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