Administrative Updates & Announcements
Mortensen Travel Awards of up to $500 per student
per academic year are available for undergraduate psychology majors who
are presenting a poster or paper at an undergraduate research conference
or professional psychological conference. Awards are granted on a
rolling basis until the available funds are exhausted. Information and
application materials are available at
http://psych.umn.edu/ugrad/mortensen/travelandresearch.html. Please
encourage eligible undergraduates to apply!
New Room Scheduling System
The University has replaced their old room scheduling system (R25)
with Astra Schedule. To view room options within Elliott Hall, click here.
Rooms will either have a link to Astra Schedule (which you must use to
schedule that room), a link to a Google form, or contact information for
a Psychology staff member who will reserve the room for you. The room
scheduling page also contains a guide to using Astra Schedule. If you
have questions, please contact the Central Office at psymain@umn.edu or (612) 625-2818.
Volunteer Appointments
If you plan to offer anyone a volunteer appointment within our Department, please inform Guillermo De Paz or Heidi Wolff.
Due to University legality issues, completion of forms, and in some
cases a background check, is required before volunteers may start work.
The process – which Guillermo or Heidi will help you with – is detailed
at http://cla.umn.edu/intranet/hr/VolunteerAgreements.php
Awards & Accomplishments
Andrew Oxenham's lab is part of the Auditory
Cognitive Neuroscience (ACN) network that has been selected for a second
time for the European Union's Erasmus Mundus scheme – http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~acn/
– to facilitate exchanges of PhD students and postdocs between European
and North American labs. The funding is designed to support stays of
between 1 and 10 months in partner labs on the other side of the
Atlantic.
Graduated
Congratulations to our October 2013 Ph.D. graduates!
Jeff Jones
Area: Quantitative/Psychometric Methods
Advisor: Niels Waller
Dissertation Title: Fungible Weights in Logistic Regression
Visiting Scholars
Yuthika Girme, graduate student in the School of
Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand has been invited
by Professor Jeff Simpson to visit our Department from January 2014 -
May 2014. Ms. Girme will join Professor Simpson's Social Interaction
Laboratory and Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaption
Laboratory.
