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Eastern Regional Fall Announcement (2008) Dear Psi Chi faculty advisors and chapter officers-- As the Eastern Region Vice-President of Psi Chi, I am eager to hear from you to learn how I can assist your chapter. As a faculty advisor of the Psi Chi chapter at Hunter College for over a dozen years, I know I am always looking for new ideas to serve as catalysts to encourage, support, and recognize the research achievements of our Psi Chi members. In this regard, there are two things in particular I would like to highlight: a) Psi Chi has many grant and research award programs, and b) not enough members—both students and faculty advisors—are applying for these awards and grants. I encourage you to view Psi Chi’s award website and share this link with the other members in your chapter. In addition, we have just begun planning for a new travel award program to help pay travel expenses for students presenting a paper or poster at the Eastern Psychological Association conference in Pittsburgh in March, 2009. Further details will be available in my Spring 2009 letter. While awards are one way to recognize your achievements in research, the most important (and fun) opportunities for recognition are to present at professional conferences—and Psi Chi is determined to provide as many opportunities for members to do so as possible. The NEPA Conference will be held on October 25, 2008, at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Psi Chi has a full day of programming, including a symposium on life as a graduate student, a talk on successful applications to grad school, a Psi Chi Chapter Information Exchange, and an invited address by Dr. Felicia Pratto from the University of Connecticut, whose talk is entitled Looking for what isn’t there: Researching who and what aren’t noticed. The afternoon finishes off with the annual Psi Chi-NEPA awards ceremony. Please visit the NEPA website for more information on registration and program details. Further information on the Psi Chi program at NEPA can be found here and is also included at the end of this letter. November 15, 2008 is the deadline for poster submissions to the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), which will be held March 5-8, 2009, at the Westin Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As was done last year, instead of having all of the Psi Chi posters presented together, they will instead be presented as part of the poster sessions organized by topic. This way, your poster will be viewed with all the other ones at EPA within your research area. All poster submissions first authored by a Psi Chi member are eligible for a Psi Chi Regional Research Award consisting of a certificate and check for $300! All submissions must be completed online via the EPA website. When you click on the link to submit your proposal, you will be asked for your EPA membership login information. If you are not a member, you will be asked to join either as a member (for faculty) or as an affiliate (for students). Be sure to indicate that you are a Psi Chi member by checking the appropriate box on the submission page. Psi Chi expects to have a terrific program of panels, workshops, and speakers. Keep checking the website for updates on the program details. Please continue to check the Psi Chi website for updates on the major conventions in 2009. APA’s annual meeting will be in Toronto, Canada (August 6-9, 2009), and APS will be meeting in San Francisco (May 22-25, 2008). These conferences are excellent opportunities for students to learn on a firsthand basis about research, service projects, and graduate programs. Be sure to encourage your chapter’s members not only to attend, but also to submit their research for presentation. For those planning on presenting at a conference, check out the helpful tips on the Psi Chi website at www.psichi.org/conventions/tips.asp. In addition to these major conferences, several universities will be sponsoring local research meetings to which all Psi Chi members are invited. The 20th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research is set for Friday, November 14, 2008, at Fordham University in Manhattan in New York City. Undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the behavioral sciences (psychology, sociology, related fields) are invited to submit papers. Direct any inquiries to Conference Chairperson Dean Jason D. Greif, or Director Harold Takooshian at 212-693-6393. Other upcoming Undergraduate Psychology Conferences in Spring 2009 to which Psi Chi members will be invited include the 37th Annual Hunter Psychology Convention on Saturday April 4, 2009, and the 12th Annual Pace University Psychology Conference on Saturday, May 9, 2009, both in Manhattan. Calls for Papers for these conferences will be sent directly to Psi Chi chapters. If your college is planning a Psychology conference or other major event that you would like me to mention in my Spring letter, please let me know. Do you have an especially active chapter and/or terrific faculty advisor? Then you should complete applications for a Regional Chapter and/or Regional Faculty Advisor Award! If your faculty advisor is really, really terrific, consider nominating him or her for the Florence Denmark National Faculty Advisor Award. More information on these awards is found in the Awards/Grants section of the Psi Chi website. The deadline for these awards is December 1, 2008. I would also like to encourage you to become involved in one of Psi Chi's national service projects during the upcoming school year. Possible projects include local shelter involvement, raising funds for the Archives of the History of American Psychology, food drives, Habitat for Humanity, and UNICEF. Make Psi Chi work for you—There is a tremendous variety of research support and service programs available only to Psi Chi members that form a crucial stepping stone to a successful career. Your next step should be to take advantage of these opportunities. Please participate to fully experience the world of professional Psychology! Best wishes for a successful semester, Jason Young, Ph.D.
Psi Chi program for 2008 NEPA 9:00-10:20 a.m. This workshop draws on the accumulated wisdom of current graduate students and on existing research to describe various aspects of life as a graduate student in psychology. Our discipline offers a variety of multidisciplinary opportunities that can be further pursued through graduate education. In light of the intensity of most graduate-level programs, helpful coping strategies for school-related stress will be discussed. Panelists will also outline differences between the lives of graduate and undergraduate students by sharing information that may not be commonly known amongst undergraduates. Additionally, using St. John’s University as an example, the importance of understanding an institution’s mission will be discussed, as it can shape the philosophies behind its educational programs. Each presentation makes a unique contribution and can serve as a useful guide for individuals considering a graduate degree in psychology. 11:30—12:20 a.m. 2:00-2:30 p.m. 2:30-3:20 pm. The first century of psychological research and theory demonstrated that people have unconscious perceptual biases that are normal. How then does psychology overcome its own perceptual blind spots? How do we avoid conducting research that is biased? In this talk, Felicia Pratto will describe how she has researched topics that seemed hidden in plain sight: unconscious evaluations, institutional discrimination, implicit norms, power in intergroup relations, and the role of nations in terrorism. She will show how psychologists must sometimes invent both theory and methods in order to tell the scientific truth about what we don’t know. 3:30-4:20 p.m. |
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