Department of Psychology

WEEK of  30 October  2009  

ORALS (Humphrey Hall, Room 228 - Conference Room)

Friday,  Nov.27,  2009   9:00 a.m.

PhD oral- Ricardo Flamenbaum. Testing Shneidman's Theory of Suicide: Psychache as a Prospective Predictor of Suicidality and Comparison with Hopelessness. Supervisor: Dr. Ronald R. Holden. External Examiner: Dr. Doug McCann, York University.

UPCOMING MEETINGS (all meetings are held in H228 CONFERENCE ROOM unless otherwise noted)

Nov.  5, 2009	Clinical Meeting	1:30 p.m.
Nov. 5, 2009	Undergraduate Meeting	3:00 p.m.
Nov. 12, 2009	Priorities & Procedures	3:30 p.m.
Nov. 19, 2009	Departmental Meeting	3:30 p.m.
Nov. 26, 2009	Graduate Committee	3:30 p.m.

Brown Bags will be held on Mondays from 12 noon - 1 p.m. in the Conference Room (Humphrey 228). [Pizza at cost of $2/slice will be available]

Nov. 9 - Dr. Meredith Chivers	Gender Differences In Sexual Response
Nov. 30 - Dr. Paul Comper (Toronto)	Psychologist as an Expert Witness
Jan. 11, 2010 - Dr. Katharine Buell	Case Conceptualization Using the Child Case from the 2009 Oral Comprehensive Exam

FALL TERM DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SPEAKERS (all lectures begin at 2:30 p.m. in BioSciences Room 1103 unless otherwise noted)

• Friday, November 6: Professor Steve Spence, University of Waterloo. "Not All Automatic Associations are Created Equal: How Implicit Attitudes and Normative Evaluations are Shaped by Acculturation and Affect Educational Achievement and Intergroup Relations." (Light Refreshments will be available prior to the talk.)
• Friday, November 27: Professor Xinyin Chen

GRADUATE STUDENTS - TRAVEL AWARDS
Changes in the way the Conference Travel Awards by the School of graduate Studies have been administered and our new form for the Award is now on our Forms web page (http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/Graduate/Forms.html).  Note that upon your return from the conference, please send an email to Sara Gillespie confirming your attendance etc.

THE JOHN CHARLES POLANYI PRIZES, 2010
Any person who is planning to continue to post-doctoral studies or has a faculty appointment in a recognized Ontario university may apply for one of the prizes. In 2010, the prizes have a value of $20,000 each.  For further information please see the attachments: 1) Information   2) Application.

AUTISM SCHOLARS AWARD 2010-11 COMPETITION - GRADUATE STUDENTS
Attached please find the application form and announcement outlining the terms and conditions of the award, for the 2010-2011 Autism Scholars Awards.  Further information is also available from http://ocgs.cou.on.ca/_bin/home/autism.cfm

 

Centre for Neuroscience Studies.  Dr. Richard Bergeron, Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa will speak on "The role of NMDA receptors in neuropsychiatric disorders".  Wednesday, November 4, at 4:00 p.m. in Botterell Hall, Room B143.

Dr. Andrew Craig, Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University will speak on "Involvement of F-BAR doman-containing adaptor proteins in cancer cell migration and invasion".  Thursday, November 5, at 11:30 a.m. in Botterell Hall, Room 920.

CBT Training in Kingston, Ontario, April 2010. This two-day course takes an in-depth look at thought record challenges and case examples, and introduces techniques to identify deeper patterns of thinking in the form of rules and schemas. Details attached.