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Fall Semester
2006 (July-December)
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POSITION AVAILABLE:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology; for 2007-08
academic year - search in progress
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Welcome
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Dr.
John
Kubinski,
joined the faculty in Psychology at IUSB in Fall 2006 as a
Visiting Assistant Professor. John has been a clinician in
the local community for a number of years. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1983.
His research interests include behavioral
strategies for chronic pain management; application of
behavioral learning principles to health behaviors;
functional outcomes in chronic pain treatment programs; and
parental use of applied behavioral analysis.
Welcome,
John!
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John Kubinski,
Ph.D.
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Research Team
formed
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Since his arrival on campus, Dr.
Dennis
Rodriguez has initiated a number
of research projects. Several students have joined in the
efforts and have been formed into the Cognitive Neuroscience
Lab. They are pictured below: Front
Row, left to right:
Chantelle Stacy, Kara Graham, Nancy Watreas;
Back Row, left to
right: Jeff
Brooks, Matthew Riesbeck, Dr. Dennis
Rodriguez.
As Dr. Rodriguez relays,
"My
research assistants collect data and search the literature,
providing written and oral summaries of articles they read.
They are currently collecting data for two projects
investigating attention and attention disorders and
searching the literature for an attachment across cultures
study to be proposed at a later date."
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Grants Received
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Psychology faculty have recently received grants to
support their research efforts.
- Dr.
Michelle
Verges received both an IU South Bend
Curriculum Development Grant ($3,000) and a grant from
the Lilly Endowment Fund's Indiana Campus Compact
($3,000) to support a service-learning project for her
classes that focuses on conservation of plastic bags, but
also meets course goals and develops skills. In addition,
she is the faculty director of a student's grant
(Patrick
Cavalho) from the Indiana Campus Compact
($800) that funds a documentary of the project.
- Dr.
Carolyn
Schult received a
Faculty Research Grant ($2,400) to support her
research.
- Erin
Ward, a psychology major, received a small
SMART grant ($60) to support her honors thesis project
and presenting her findings at a conference. Her faculty
mentor was Dr.
John
McIntosh.
Congratulations, Michelle, Carolyn,
Patrick and Erin!
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Student
Presentations
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Jeff
Brooks
and
Chantelle
Stacy,
two students mentored by Dr.
Dennis
Rodriguez presented
a paper titled "Factor Analysis of ADHD Self-Report
Measures" at the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences
annual meeting in Gary, IN, on Friday, October
13.
Nancy
Watreas
also
attended but did not present.
Erin
Ward,
mentored by Dr.
John
McIntosh, also presented a paper
at the same Indiana
Academy of the Social Sciences annual meeting in Gary
based on her honors thesis project
"Attitudes Toward Therapists Who Lose Patients to
Suicide."
Jeff
Brooks also
participated in a summer research program at a university in
Kentucky. He presented the findings of the two-study project
on campus at IU South Bend on November 9th. The project
involved moral judgments and whether they are the result of
rational or emotional processes.
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SOCACT Project
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Dr.
Dé
Bryant and her Social
Action Project students presented
details of their trip to South Africa during the summer on
October 12. Pictures from the presentation are available
here.
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Fall 2006 Poster
Session
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P429 Lab in Developmental
Psychology and P420 Lab in Community
Psychology
A poster session was held on December 7 in the
Psychology area of Wiekamp Hall. Pictures of the
individual students and their posters as well as
many candid pictures may be found here.
Dr.
Kathy
Ritchie was the instructor of P429 and
Dr.
Dé
Bryant was the instructor of P420. The
students are pictured below with Drs. Ritchie and
Bryant.
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Past posters may be seen in the psychology
archives.
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Dr. Mawhinney Retirement
Dinner
Pictures from a September 23 dinner held
to celebrate Dr.
Mawhinney's retirement are
available here.
Thanks, Tom, and best wishes for a wonderful
retirement!
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Holiday
Luncheon
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As takes place every year, our department secretary
decorated the conference room and arranged for and
coordinated refreshments for the department holiday
luncheon. We thank Monica
Markley for her efforts for all of us, not only
for the party, but what she does for us all year long.
Pictures may be found at this
link.
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Psychology Faculty Scholarly
Activity
Randy
M. Isaacson & Frank
Fujita. (2006, August). Metacognitive
knowledge monitoring and self-regulated learning: Academic
success and reflections on learning. Journal of the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 6(1),
pp. 39-55. (link)
Chris
L. S. Coryn & Catherine
Borshuk. (2006, September). The scope of
justice for Muslim Americans: Moral exclusion in the
aftermath of 9/11. The Qualitative Report, vol.
11(3), pp. 586-604. (link)
Michelle
Verges, Josh Spitalnick, & Kirsten Michels.
(2006). Soapbox Sessions: A graduate student teaching forum.
Teaching of Psychology, vol. 33(2), pp.
118-120.
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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.
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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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