Reading Groups

Affective Neuroscience

• Affective Neuroscience Group
  
  
• Megan Gunnar's Developmental Psychobiology Lab Meetings
  
  
• Jonathan Gewirtz's Lab Meetings.
  
  
• Cheryl Olman's MRI Users Groups
  
  
• Chris Patrick's Emotion Science Lab meetings
  
  
• Bruce Cuthbert's Lab Meetings

Perception & Action

• Daniel Kersten's Lab meetings

Learning and Memory

• Textgroup: Paul van den Broek and Randy Fletcher.
        Textgroup meets weekly to discuss issues in text and discourse comprehension. We read and discuss current journal articles on various topics ranging from reading comprehension to lingusitics to nuerological processes during text processing to educational implications of such research. We also present and discuss our own research projects. Textgroup meets every Tuesday from 2:00 -3:00 pm in S204 Elliot.
  
  
• Psych 8010: Advanced Topics in Learning
       Mental Time Travel in Animals references (57kb doc)
       Syllabus (68kb doc)
  
  
• Psych 8020: Seminar in Conditioning and Learning
       Syllabus: Associative and motivational determinants of action and choice
       Topics (36kb doc)

 Featured Jobs

• University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology
  
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/jobs/
  
  
• RIKEN: Brain Sciences Institute Positions Available:
  http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/work/positions.html
  
  
• MIT Cognet 'The Brain Sciences Connection', job listings
  http://cognet.mit.edu/

 Grants, Funding & Fellowships

• NRSA: National Research Service Award Opportunities:
  http://grants.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm
  
  
• The Royal Society: Post-doc Fellowships for Americans in the UK
  http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=2351
  
  
• Fulbright Scholarships
        The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce five Fulbright Information Sessions for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2009-10 academic year. Excellent opportunities are available to over 140 countries. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UM campus application deadline is Monday, September 8, 2008. Those who would like to attend should go to the following link to reserve a place at one of the five meetings: http://www.grad.umn.edu/fulbright/
  
  

 Conferences & Events

Spring 2008

• ICIS: International Conference on Information Systems. Icis.net/ais.net.org/
              Paris, France  Date TBA 2008.
  
  
• NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation http://nips.cc/
  
  
• African American Women's Language Conference 7-8 March 2008 Holiday Inn Riverwalk,             San Antonio, TX http://colfa.utsa.edu/colfa/aawlc/AfricanAmericanLangConf08.htm
  
  
• AERA:  American Educational Research Association. www.aera.net
              March 24-28, 2008, New York. Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and                         Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility
  
  
• SRCD:  Society for Research in Child Development.
              http://www.srcd.org/about.html .  April 2-4, 2009 , Denver, CO.
              SRCD's Biennial Meeting
  
  
• ARVO: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthamology .
              http://www.arvo.org . April 27- May 1, 2008. Ft. Lauderdale, FL
              Eyes on Innovation
  
  
• Vision Sciences Society: VSS 8th Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2008
              Naples Grande Hotel, http://www.visionsciences.org/meeting.html
  
  
• APS: Association fro Psychological Science
              May 22-25, 2008. Sheraton Hotel & Towels, Chicago, IL         
              http://www.psychologicalscience.org/convention/
  

Summer 2008

• Cog Sci Society:  http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/  July 23-26, 2008
              Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C.
  
  
  
• APA: American Psychological Association : http://www.apa.org/  
              August 14-17, 2008 Boston, MA.

Fall 2008

• NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival
       The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is actively recruiting candidates to participate in the third annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival, to be held September 11th - 12th, 2008 in Bethesda,Maryland. We are writing to request your assistance in identifying candidates for this exciting event. To be eligible, students must be enrolled in a PhD program in theU.S.and on schedule to complete their PhD degree requirements by October, 2009. We will be selecting up to 250 students to spend two days discussing their research through poster sessions, meeting other students from around theU.S., learning about the research conducted at NIH, and exploring postdoctoral training opportunities on the NIH campuses. The deadline for application is May 15th and the online application can be found at: http://www.training.nih.gov.
  
  
• SRA: Society of Research Administrators.                         
              http://www.srainternational.org/sra03/template/tntbAM08.cfm?id=744
              October 9-13, 2008. Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on the                         Potomac, Washington D.C.
  
  
• Psychonomics Society: 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
              November 13-16, 2008. http://www.psychonomic.org/meet.html
  
  
• SFN: Society for Neuroscience:  www.sfn.org  November 15-19, 2008. Washington D.C.
  
  

 Responsible Conduct of Research

Integrity in Research, Scholarship, and Teaching
http://www.research.umn.edu/first/GradStuPostdocsEdReqs.htm

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