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March-April 2000, Volume 4, Issue 2

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Welcome to the PsychNotes Website!!

PsychNotes, a regular publication of the Psychology Department at Central Connecticut State University, is intended to inform members of the Psychology community (faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, alumni) about current happenings in the Department.

To keep up with the changes on this website, we've made it easy to use a free service called Mind-it, a free, Web-based software tool that automatically sends you an e-mail whenever a web page you've selected has been updated. The instructions for using Mind-it are at the end of this newsletter.

We're going to the Big Dance!

The CCSU Blue Devils won the Northeast Conference title and will be facing Iowa State in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Tournament.  The Blue Devils will be led by NEC Player of the Year, Rick Mickens, a Psychology Major . . .  GO CCSU!

By the way, if you're interested in how psychology can be applied to athletic performance, check out the following site and click on "Becoming a Sports Psychologist"  http://www.psyc.unt.edu/apadiv47

Upcoming Events

Friday - Sunday, March 24-26, Eastern Psychological Association meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Five students from the Psychology Club are planning on attending. Drs. Douglas Engwall and Marc Goldstein (Psychology), Karen Engwall (Prevention and Counseling), Dr. Ben Tyson (Communication) and Heather Lavery (graduate student in Communication) will be presenting a symposium entitled "High-Risk Drinking Among First Year Students: Changing the Norms" on Friday, March 24th at noon.  

April 3 - 7. Psychology Registration for Fall 2000.  We will be running our Registration Table from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm in the Alcove in front of the Marcus White Lounge to help you with Registration for the Fall 2000 term.   

Wednesday, April 5, 4:15 pm Judd Hall Lounge, Room 200, Wesleyan University

Dr. Elena Grigorenko will present a colloquium entitled:

“Approximating Intelligence: Tricks of the Trade."  Dr. Grigorenko Fox is from the Psychology Department  at Yale University and a member of the Child Study Center. For more information, call 860-685-2760 or see www.wesleyan.edu/psyc

Friday, April 14, 12-1:30 pm Founders Hall (in Davidson Hall) 

Dr. Ana Abraido-Lanza will present a colloquium entitled:

"Cancer-related behaviors among Latinas and non-Latina whites."  Dr. Abraido-Lanza is from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.  This presentation is part of the Psychology Colloquium Series and is hosted by Professors Laura Bowman, Joanne DiPlacido and Charles Mate-Kole, who received a CSU-AAUP grant to sponsor these events. Refreshments will be served.

Job Opportunities

Attention Recent Graduates!  Drugs Don't Work!, a Hartford-based organization that promotes substance abuse prevention programming statewide, has 3 full-time openings:

Complete job descriptions are posted on the bulletin board next to 212 MW. You can also e-mail them at admin@drugsdontwork.org for a job description.

Y2K Update


The guest speaker at the Y2K event (Thursday, May 11) will be Dr. John B. Connolly from the Department of Psychology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  Dr. Connolly is also Director of the cognitive/Clinical Neuroscience Unit and has done extensive research on the use of neuroimaging techniques in studying brain functioning.  He will be speaking on his current research in this area (the exact title of his talk will be posted in the near future). Information on the student poster session is posted (and can be downloaded) from the Department website: www.psychology.ccsu.edu (click on Y2K Conference). In addition to the poster session and guest speakers, the 27th Annual Honors Award Program, initiation of new members into Psi Chi, the national Psychology Honorary, as well as food, music, etc.

Chair's Corner  

Problems with Psy 235 and Psy 236.  We no longer offer Psy 235 (Child/Adolescent Development) here at CCSU, but many students who transfer here have credit for this course.  If you have taken Psy 235, do not take Psy 236.  You will not receive credit for both courses.

An opportunity to serve. CCSU runs a group called the Tutor Corps at New Britain High School.  These are CCSU students who tutor ninth grade students who are at-risk of not completing high school. These are students who WANT to receive tutoring. The Tutor Corps needs more CCSU students to participate. This is a paid position. For more information, please contact:  

Margaret M. Ferrara
Director of Office of Field Experiences
Central CT State University
860-832-2416

You can now find out who your advisor is by clicking on advisor list on the dept website. If the information listed is not accurate, please e-mail me (Goldsteinm@ccsu.edu) and let me know.  

Using Mind-it to keep current with PsychNotes

The instructions below will tell you how to set this service up for PsychNotes -- And remember, you only need to do this ONCE.  After you do, Mind-it will send an e-mail to notify you of updates to the site, and the e-mail message will contain a hyperlink you can click on to visit PsychNotes.

(1) Type in your e-mail address in the box below where it says "Enter email address".
(2) Click the "Mind-it" button and you will be taken to the Mind-it web site.
(3) You will be asked for a password; YOU DO NOT NEED TO GIVE THEM YOUR CCSU PASSWORD -- You should create your own password especially for Mind-it.  Then, just follow instructions (you don't need to do much more).
(4) Wait and your browser will automatically take you back to the PsychNotes web site.

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