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September 1999, Volume 3, Issue 1

Welcome!

This is the first issue of the new PsychNotes Website! PsychNotes is a semi-regular publication of the Psychology Department and is intended to inform members of the Psychology community (faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, alumni) about current happenings in the Department.

Last year you may have received some e-mail versions of this newsletter. We have discovered that maintaining a list of current e-mail addresses is a big job! We have decided to switch to a Web-based approach.

Keeping Current with PsychNotes

Whether you're a veteran "web surfer" or just a novice, one thing you quickly discover is that there's a lot of interesting stuff out there! Most people bookmark their favorite sites, but its easy to accumulate lots of them. How do you know when something new has been added to one of your favorite sites without checking it every few days? Enter Mind-it.

What is Mind-it? Mind-it is a free, Web-based software tool that automatically sends you an e-mail whenever a web page you've selected has been updated. With just a few keystrokes, you can automatically be informed when a new version of PsychNotes has been put on the web.

Actually, you can use Mind-it to be informed of changes on any of your favorite web sites.

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.

Job Watch

We just got a fax yesterday (9/20/99) from New Britain General Hospital, Behavioral Health Research Unit. They are looking for 4 Clinical Research Assistants (3 flex-time, 1 full-time).

Clinical Research Assistants assist in administrating, coordinating and facilitating all aspects of pharmaceutical clinical research trials and activities. Some of these tasks include: data collection; assisting investigators with protocol implementation; preparing case report forms, clinical reports, informed consents and Institutional Review Board reports; act as liaison with physician investigators, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare personnel; assist with subject recruitment and retention; help maintain lines of communication with study sponsors; help process laboratory specimens; lead psycho-educational patient groups.

Contact Dr. Richard Charbonneau at 888-333-9859. Press "2" at the menu

Who's New?

We have several new faces in the Psychology Department. Dr. Moises Salinas is our new assistant professor from the University of Texas. Dr. Salinas was born in Mexico and traveled to his new home in Connecticut by a very circuitous route. He earned his BA in educational psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his MA in research psychology at the Universadad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and his Ph.D. in social/developmental psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as a research assistant at Hebrew University; a lecturer at the Universadad Iberoamericana; and a teaching assistant at the University of Texas, where he also served as editor of their Educational Psychology Review.

His research interests include: effects of stereotypes on minority students, stereotype threat, attitude development, and factors affecting teaching effectiveness.

Dr. Salinas is fluent in three languages; Spanish, English (which he perfected during frequent visits to family in Texas and Miami - his family was originally from Cuba) and Hebrew. He was given his first computer at the age of twelve and has enjoyed "playing" with them ever since. He also enjoys photography, in the past he had his own darkroom. He now has the perfect subjects for his camera, he and his wife have three year old twin sons.

Mimi Kalman is our new University Assistant. She will be working out of room 212 MW. Mimi actually started working in the department towards the end of last year, but this is her first official full year. She has had a varied career starting as a Registered Nurse, wife, stay-at-home mom, retail furniture executive, accounting assistant, religious school secretary ( a job she still holds), and now, additionally, university assistant here at CCSU. It has been a very interesting career path.  Mimi is the mother of "four", her two daughters and the two wonderful young men they brought home. She likes to travel and, over the years, has visited France, England, Spain, Belgium, Israel, South Africa, Holland, Curacao and this past summer, Alaska - where a sign on a store proclaimed it "the only foreign country that still welcomes Americans!" In her meager spare time Mimi enjoys almost every kind of needlework and working with stained glass.

Our 2 graduate assistants for the Fall are Giselle Braganza and Kelley Langley. Giselle was a grad assistant in the Spring semester last term. She received an Honors B.A. in Sociology and a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. Wanting to continue her education, as well as experience new things, led Giselle to CCSU. Currently she is enrolled in the General Masters Program in Psychology. This is her last semester as CCSU, but Giselle plans on to continue her education by pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests are primarily in neuropsychology, but she is also interested in other areas such as racial identity and dieting. Giselle is currently working on several projects that focus on these topics.

Our other graduate assistant is Kelley Langley. Kelley is a first year graduate student who received her bachelors in psychology at the University of Minnesota. Not only is Kelley new to the CCSU campus, she is also a newcomer to the state of CT. So far Kelley likes the campus and looks forward to milder winters and less snowfall than Minnesota! She is interested in Clinical Psychology and plans to get her Ph.D after finishing her MA. Kelley's off-campus interests include working out at the gym, and spending time with her fiancé and her pet Rottweiler.

What's New?

Dr. Carol Austad has obtained a Bio Integrator Biofeedback System. She is presently being trained in the use of the machine, which is to be used in the Clinical and Health Psychology courses. It will also be available to anyone else interested.  The Bio Integrator includes two channels of surface EMG, two channels of EEG, two channels of skin temperature, one channel of skin conductance/resistance, and one photoplethysmograph channel for heart rate, blood volume pulse and raw wave form, and an optional respiration sensor.

Psychology Club Meeting

The first meeting of the Psychology Club will be Tuesday, Sept 14 at 2:00 pm in the President's Lounge in the Student Center (opposite the telephones). If you are unable to make this meeting, but would like more information, you can contact Catherine Morrell, Psychology Club president, at CMORR5489@aol.com or Professor Laura Levine, faculty advisor, at Levinel@ccsu.edu or 832-3109.

Upcoming Events

Once again, the Psychology Department will be offering a colloquium series in which distinguished faculty from other universities will be presenting talks at CCSU. The colloquium series is hosted by Professors Charles Mate-Kole and Laura Bowman, who received a grant from the University for this purpose.

The first guest scheduled is Jeffrey T. Barth, Ph.D. He will be speaking on Friday, October 1, at 12:00 noon in Founder's Hall. Dr. Barth is the John Edward Fowler Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additionally, he is the Director of the Neuropsychology Assessment Laboratories in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia's Health Sciences Center.

There will be 2 Psychology conferences occurring in CT in October. The Connecticut Psychological Association is holding its 13th Annual Convention, "Pathways to the Future" at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Meriden on Friday, October 1st and Saturday, October 2nd. On Friday the Keynote Address will be presented by Robert J Sternberg, Ph.D. Dr. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. His topic will be "Successful Intelligence". Various workshops are scheduled for the rest of the day.

On Saturday there are two concurrent all-day sessions: "Ericksonian Psychotherapy/Hypnotherapy: Hypnosis Within the Problem Solving Model" presented by William J. Matthews, Ph.D or "Saying Goodbye to Managed Care: Complementing Your Clinical Practice with Personal and Professional Coaching...Different Arenas, Same Skills" presented by Ben J. Dean, Ph.D.

Fees for Student-Affiliate members are: Friday $55, Saturday $55, both days $90. Lunches on both days are included in this cost. Student-Affiliate membership in CPA costs $20. Charges for CPA Members: Friday $129, Saturday $129, both days $210; Non-CPA Members: Friday $159, Saturday $159, both days $270. For further information, call 586-7522 or visit their website: www.connpsych.org.

The New England Psychological Association will be holding its 39^th Annual Meeting at the University of Hartford on Friday, October 22nd and Saturday, October 23rd. On Friday the Keynote Address will be presented by Dr. Peter Salovey, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology and of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. His topic will be: "Emotional Intelligence: Another Way to be Smart?"

Conference fees (before October 8) for student members are $5, student non-member $10, regular members $10, and non-member $20. A boxed lunch ($8.65) for Saturday is available by advance registration only. After October 8, registration fees increase to: student members are $10, student non-member $15, regular members $15, and non-member $25.

For further information contact the Department of Psychology at the University of Hartford (768- 4544).

Y2K is coming!

No, its not a software bug; its the NEW Psychology Day celebration scheduled for Thursday, May 11. It will include both scholarly and social events. Activities will include a poster session where students can display information about research projects and internship experiences, our 27^th Annual Honors Award program, the initiation of new members into Psi Chi, the national Psychology Honor society. We also plan to have music, refreshments, athletic events (faculty-student volleyball game???). More information will be provided as our plans develop. We need to have students to help us organize this event. Please contact Dr. Laura Levine (832-3109), advisor to the Psychology Club, if you can assist.

Chair's Corner: We Need Your Help!

Producing this web page on a regular basis is a time consuming job! We need students to help us with it. In future issues, I would like to include short bios of some of our students, news from alumni, job and internships opportunities, etc. If you'd like to see your name in print (as an editor), please contact me (Goldsteinm@ccsu.edu).