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Scrapbook & Recent Events - Number 9 |
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POSITION AVAILABLE: Visiting position in Child/Adolescent Developmental Psychology; for 2004-05 academic year, beginning August 2004 |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! Fall 2004 Advanced Lab and Future Labs P429: Lab in Developmental Psychology is being offered in Fall 2004. Authorization to register for P429 (and all advanced labs) is required. Those who plan to enroll in the Developmental Lab in the Fall 2004 semester MUST complete either P216 or P316 or P331 prior to Fall 2004 as well as the other prerequisites (P211, P354) to be permitted to enroll [completion of P403 prior to enrollment is highly recommended as well]. You must also contact and meet with Dr. Ritchie or Dr. McIntosh to receive permission (i.e., authorization) to register for the class. You should contact the instructor of the section in which you wish to enroll before you register for Fall 2004 classes. Advanced Labs in the coming semesters:
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P429 Developmental Psychology
Lab Prerequisites: P211, P354, and either P216 or P316 or P331 completed prior to Fall 2004 and permission of the instructor/authorization to register [P403 highly recommended] Taught by: Drs. Kathy Ritchie & John McIntosh Class days/time: MW 11:30-12:45 pm / MW 4:00-5:15 pm Section numbers: 24141 / 24142 |
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FACET membership: Congratulations to Dr. Carolyn Schult on her selection for FACET membership. As described at the IUSB FACET website, "The Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) promotes teaching excellence across IU's eight campuses. Each year 20 to 25 faculty members are inducted into the FACET Academy. They participate in an annual retreat with workshops and discussions on collegiate teaching, and they are involved in ongoing activities to advance IU's faculty teaching mission." Dr. Schult is one of only 18 faculty in the entire IU system this year to receive FACET Awards. Carolyn also joins a select group of outstanding teachers from among our excellent faculty. Other members of FACET among the IUSB Psychology faculty are Drs. Dé Bryant and Richard Hubbard who were inducted a number of years ago. Congratulations, Carolyn! Promotions and Tenure: Congratulations are extended to Dr. Dé Bryant, who recently received final notice that she will be promoted to Professor of Psychology effective with Fall 2004. Additionally, Dr. Carolyn Schult recently received formal notice that she will be promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology and granted tenure, also effective with Fall 2004. We are both pleased and proud to have these fine faculty members as continuing members of the IUSB Psychology team and congratulate them both on their record of accomplishments and new positions here at IUSB. Trusteees Teaching Award Recipients: Continuing the tradition of teaching excellence at IUSB and the Department of Psychology, Drs. Carolyn Schult and Catherine Borshuk were selected to receive Trustees Teaching Awards. Fewer than 20 of IUSB's faculty received such awards this year. Congratulations to Carolyn and Catherine! Position secured: Gwen Lupfer who was with us for the 2003-04 academic year as an Acting Visiting Assistant Professor has accepted a visiting appointment for the next year with the Department of Psychology at Mississippi State University. The campus has extensive animal facilities that fit well with Gwen's research interests and needs. Congratulations, Gwen, and thank you for your outstanding efforts on behalf of our department and our students in this past year! |
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Undergraduate Research |
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Congratulations to two IUSB Psychology students who had their research published in the IUSB Undergraduate Research Journal 2003 volume (volume 6). The publications resulted from advanced lab research projects conducted by the student in P429 Lab in Developmental Psychology under the direction of Dr. Carolyn Schult. Congratulations to the students and Dr. Schult. The papers:
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Congratulations to Chris Coryn who recently successfully defended his thesis and is the fifth student to complete all requirements for the Master of Arts in Applied Psychology degree. Chris received his degree at the May 2004 graduation ceremony. Chris, a former IUSB Psychology major (2002 graduate) received the James R. Haines award for Research as an undergraduate. He is already enrolled in a doctoral program in Program Evaluation at Western Michigan University. Congratulations, Chris! Congratulations also to Merinell Heines-Thomas who recently successfully defended her thesis and is the sixth student to complete all requirements for the Master of Arts in Applied Psychology degree. Merinell received her degree at the May 2004 graduation ceremony as well. Merinell, a former IUSB Psychology major and graduate, is employed at Madison Center in South Bend. Congratulations, Merinell! |
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Welcomes and Farewells |
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A new faculty member, specializing in Experimental Psychology, will join our faculty beginning with the Fall 2004 semester. Dennis Rodriguez, who expects to finish his doctoral degree before arriving, will join us as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. Dennis will receive his Ph.D. degree from the University of South Carolina's Psychology Department. His major areas of interest include specialization in Cognitive Neuroscience, with a minor in Quantitative Psychology. We look forward to Dennis joining our faculty this fall. |
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After many years of outstanding service and teaching here at IUSB, Dr. Richard Gottwald plans to retire at the end of the Fall 2004 semester. We plan a recognition and appreciation event later in the Fall semester to show our tremendous appreciation to Dr. Gottwald. Specific dates and times will be announced soon. Dr. Gottwald impacted the careers and education of many psychology majors over the years and served our department and campus in many ways over that time, including a term as department chair. We are pleased he will be with us through the Fall semester and will sorely miss him when he retires at the end of the year. We wish him and his wife, Jody, all the best. |
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Dr. Richard Gottwald |
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PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS |
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Dr. John McIntosh is editor of the recently published annual proceedings of the American Association of Suicidology 2001 professional conference. The volume includes 1000-word summaries of 89 different papers presented at that conference. The proceedings, appearing at the same time as the 2003 proceedings volume, represent the first time that the association has published them in CD-ROM format only. Publication details:
A study under the direction of Dr. James M. Beale (now at the University of Texas, Brownsville) while he was a visiting member of our faculty during the 2001-2003 academic years has been published in the peer-reviewed electronic journal Current Research in Social Psychology. The paper provides the results of a study Dr. Beale conducted with the assistance of P211 students as well as one of our graduate students (Chris Coryn) to look at feelings of anxiety and patriotism as well as prejudicial attitudes following the events of September 11, 2001. The journal article is available online. The coauthors had presented the paper at a professional psychology conference in Hawaii in 2003. Congratulations, James, Chris, and Krista! Publication details:
Dr. John McIntosh is a coauthor of a recently published professional journal article relaying some of the findings of a multiyear mental health intervention program with which he has been involved. The program, located in Baton Rouge, LA, involves individuals who provide grief and bereavement interventions and support at the time immediately following the death of a loved one by suicide. This unique, groundbreaking program has shown great promise for helping newly bereaved survivors of suicide (the loved ones who have lost a family member to death by suicide). Dr. McIntosh has been conducting the research component of the program. The journal Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention may be found in the IUSB Schurz Library. Publication details:
Dr. Frank Fujita is an author of a recently published professional journal article (along with IUSB faculty colleagues in SPEA and Business & Economics). Publication details:
Congratulations to Gwen Lupfer, Acting Visiting Assistant Professor, on the December 2003 publication of a professional journal article! This publication represents part of the ongoing work she is doing with hamsters (as for her doctoral dissertation that is near completion). Publication details:
Other 2003 Publications by Psychology faculty:
Travel Award: Congratulations to Chris Coryn (who just graduated from our MA in Applied Psychology program)! Chris was selected to receive a Student Travel Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues' (SPSSI) Graduate Student Committee to attend the upcoming SPSSI conference in Washington, DC. Congratulations, Chris! Chris will be presenting a paper with Dr. Catherine Borshuk at the conference. |
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Presentations |
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Dr. Richard Hubbard made a public presention at the grand opening of the Behavioral HealthCare of Northern Indiana Adult Psychiatric & Substance Abuse Services facility. The lecture, "Addiction and the Stages of Change," was made as part of an open house event on January 23 as the new facility opened in Plymouth, IN. |
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Dr. John McIntosh made two presentations at the annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology in Miami from April 14-17. One of the papers was coauthored by Dr. Richard Hubbard and represented continued collaborative work on a widely-used instrument that measures factual knowledge about suicide that was developed by Drs. McIntosh and Hubbard over the last 20 years. The second paper, coauthored with a colleague at the University of Illinois at Chicago, provided recent data on suicide among minority populations in the USA with an emphasis on Asian Americans and particularly Asian Indians. The two papers were:
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An IUSB undergraduate psychology major, Jeanne Fruth, presented her Honor's Thesis project at the 9th annual IUSB Honors Program Senior Research Seminar on April 23, 2004. She discussed her project titled "Attitudes Toward Survivors of Suicide." Jeanne's project is being conducted under the direction of Dr. John McIntosh, with assistance by Dr. Richard Gottwald. |
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Dr. Carolyn A. Schult and Laura S. Talcott made a poster presentation at the recent Conference on Human Development (April) in Washington, D.C. The paper was titled "Parents' Use of Intention Information when Judging Children's Lies." |
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Rebecca Shaffer, one of Dr. Dé Bryant's SOCACT team members, presented a paper entitled "Breaking Silence: Intimate Violence in Lesbian and Gay Couples" at the Undergraduate Research Conference held at Butler University in Indianapolis on April 2, 2004. |
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and AWARDS |
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Award for Excellence in Psychology (undergraduate): Jeanne Fruth Master of Arts in Applied Psychology Excellence Award: Co-recipients - Chris Coryn and Merinell Heines-Thomas James R. Haines Award for Research in Psychology: Stephanie Borosh [award winning paper available as a PDF file] Congratulations! |
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Graduation Pictures A few pictures of some Psychology students (undergrad and grad) receiving their degrees and walking across the stage at Tuesday, May 11th's IUSB graduation ceremony are posted here.
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Advanced Lab Poster Session Students in P435 Learning and Cognition Lab presented the findings from their advanced lab projects at a poster session in the psychology hallways on April 26, 2004. The lab and the independent student projects were directed by Dr. Richard Gottwald. Pictures of each student's project may be found at this link. Congratulations to the students and Dr. Gottwald! |
P435 Students and Dr. Gottwald |
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P211: Methods of Experimental Psychology Class Projects
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New 5-year Plan Posted! |
To expedite the availability of the information, a PDF file has been posted with our 5-year plan of scheduled classes in the Department of Psychology at IUSB. An html file of this information will be posted as soon as possible. |
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SOCACT (Social Action Project) As some of you may know, Dr. Dé Bryant's SOCACT Project activities are currently taking place in Africa. Dr. Bryant and several of her team members are contributing to the community of Durban in South Aftica in particular and will be spending about a month there with their efforts. The agency with which they are working in Durban recently sent us a copy of their newsletter, outlining some of the work SOCACT is doing there. We thought you might like to see it. Click HERE to see the newsletter. The Umcebo Trust, with which SOCACT is working, has a website at http://home.telkomsa.net/tabby and their newsletters are archived there for anyone wishing to have some background.We hope Dr. Byrant and her SOCACT Team members will share some of their work and experiences in South Africa with us when they return later in the summer. 14 June 2004 Update: Another Umbeco newsletter has
appeared with more news of SOCACT activities in Africa.
Click HERE. |
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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!
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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