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3/12/2007 Grant success of the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention covered in the UConn Advance
2/19/2007
Emeritus Professor Donates $2 Million to Psychology. UConn Advance.
Maurice Farber, Professor Emeritus, established a trust to endow undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships for students in Psychology.
1/16/08 New web site launched.


Upcoming Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation Defenses

 Date Graduate Student Title Event Advisor Place Time
11/2/07
Amanda Fabbro
Anxiety and Social Information Processing in an Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Sample
MA defense
Treadwell
Bous 160
1pm

 

Colloquia and area talks

 Date Speaker/Affiliation
Title
Place Time
Friday, 11/7/08 Sheila Blumstein
Brown University
TBA
Bous 160 4:00
Friday, 4/25/08 Jaegwon Kim
Brown University
Family Studies 216 4:00
Friday, 4/11/08 Susan Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago
Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language
Cognitive Science Colloquium

Bous 160
Friday, 2/28/08 Ken McRae
University of Western Ontario

How Knowledge of Real-world Events Influences Language Comprehension
Cognitive Science Colloquium

Bous 160 4:00
Wednesday, 3/26/08 John Salamone
University of Connecticut
Board of Trustees Distinguished Prof. Talk
Behavioral Functions of Brain Dopamine: Concepts, Controversy and Consensus
Bous 160 4:00
Wednesday, 3/19/08 Wendy Wood
Duke University
Self-regulatory habits: A contradiction?
Bous 160 4:00
Wednesday, 2/27/08 Julia Irwin
Haskins Laboratories
The Development of Sensitivity to Audiovisual Speech
Bous 160 4:00
Monday, 2/25/08 Kristina McDonald
Duke University
The Goal of Getting Even: The Role of Interpretations and Beliefs in Preadolescent and Young Adult Conflict
Bous 160 4:00
Friday, 2/15/08 Vanessa Simmering
University of Iowa
Grounding Behavioral Development in the Dynamics of Cognition and Action in Space
Bous 160 4:00
Monday, 2/11/08 Amy Joh
University of Virginia
Learning and development in prospective control of actions
Bous 160 4:00
Monday, 2/4/08

Gordon Moskowitz
Lehigh University

Implicit goals and the control of stereotype activation
Bous 160 4:00
Thursday, 1/31/08

Glenn Adams
University of Kansas

Mind in context: A cultural-psychological analysis of ‘paranoid’ cognition
Bous 160 12:00
Tuesday, 1/29/08 Nicole Zarrett
Tufts University
Activities as a context for positive youth development
Bous 160 4:00
Friday, 1/25/08 Heather Bortfeld
Texas A & M University
Language and the developing brain: Linking perception to neurophysiology in normal and impaired auditory processing
Bous 160 4:00
Thursday, 1/24/08

Hart Blanton
Texas A & M University

The regulation of good and evil: A deviance regulation analysis of societal control
Bous 160 12:00
Tuesday, 1/22/08 Nim Tottenham
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Developmental trajectories of face processing and beyond: Early experiences and mechanisms of change in social behavior
Bous 160 4:00
Friday, 1/18/08

Virginia Kwan
Princeton University

Living in a global village: Evidence for extra-cultural cognition in White Americans
Bous 160 4:00
Thursday, 1/17/08 Stephan Dilchert
University of Minnesota
Understanding managers: Studies on interests, personality, and career success
Bous 160 4:00
Tuesday, 1/15/08 Michael Ford
George Mason University
Occupational safety motivation: Differences across functional groups and behaviors
Bous 160 4:00

 

Area talks and other events

 Date Event Place Time
Wednesday,
2/20/08
Clinical Research Talk
David Portnoy, UConn Psych and UConn Writing Center
Grad Student Writing Workshop Writing workshop II
Bous 160 12:00
Wednesday,
2/27
Clinical Research Talk
Anjana Bhat, UConn Physical Therapy
Visual attention patterns during social and non-social learning contexts in infants at risk for autism
Bous 160 12:00
Wednesday,
3/19/08
Clinical Research Talk
Marcel Kinsbourne (New School for Social Research)
Autism as a disease: Neurobiological evidence

Bous 160 12:00
Wednesday,
4/23/08
Clinical Research Talk
Lynn Brennan
ABA Intervention for Children with Autism

Bous 160 12:00