Administrative Updates & Announcements
The University of Minnesota will be hosting CoSMo 2014 (Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience) from 8/3/14 - 8/17/14. Associate Professor Paul Schrater
is a co-organizer, with financial support provided by the College of
Liberal Arts and College of Science & Engineering. The goal of the
summer school is to provide cross-disciplinary training in mathematical
modelling techniques relevant to understanding brain function,
dysfunction, and treatment. The summer school is directed at graduate
students and post-doctoral fellows from multi-disciplinary backgrounds,
including Life Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics and
Engineering. Also accepted are highly motivated outstanding
under-graduate students. More information on the program can be found here.
Summer Grades - Faculty who are
sponsoring summer undergraduate RAs or Honors Thesis students must
submit those class grades through Rachel Goeller. Summer Research
Assistant and Thesis courses do not have assigned instructors, which
means faculty cannot submit grades online. Please send the following
information to Rachel Goeller by August 25th.
- Student Name
- Student ID#
- Term - Course Number
- Grade
Questions? Contact Rachel Goeller or Holly Hatch-Surisook.
Awards & Accomplishments
Emeritus Professor Tom Bouchard will be receiving
the American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Award for Life
Achievement in the Science of Psychology at the APA convention this
year. The award will be presented to Tom on Friday, August 8, 2014 at
4:00 p.m. The award recognizes distinguished and enduring records of
accomplishment in four areas of psychology: the application of
psychology, the practice of psychology, psychology in the public
interest, and the science of psychology.
Adjunct Professor Scott Sponheim (Minneapolis VA
Medical Center) was awarded a 4-year grant entitled "Quantitative
Modeling of Visual Perception Endophenotypes in Schizophrenia". Associate
Professor Cheryl Olman
is a primary co-investigator, and the research will involve using
paradigms she has developed in her laboratory in order to better
understand the basis of visual perceptual abnormalities in psychosis. Emeritus Professor Irv Gottesman and Professor Dan Kersten are consultants on the project.
Former Graduate Student Stephanie Pituc
(Counseling Ph.D., 2013) is the recipient of the 2014 APA Committee on
Ethnic Minority Affairs' (CEMA) Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation
Award in Psychology. The CEMA Selection Sub-committee determined her
dissertation research titled, Foreigner Objectification, Bicultural
Identity, and Psychological Adjustment in Asian American College
Students (University of Minnesota, 2013), to be the most outstanding.
The APA CEMA will be hosting a reception and a brief awards ceremony at
the APA 122nd Annual Convention in Washington, DC to present Dr. Pituc
with an award to honor her efforts.
Graduated
Congratulations to our June 2014 Ph.D. graduate!
Katrina Archambault
Area: CAB
Advisor: Chad Marsolek
Dissertation Title: How Stimulus Similarity Impacts Spacing and Interleaving Effects in Long-term Memory
