Seth Greenberg, Chair of Psychology, presented research along with Albrecht Inhoff, Ulrich Weger, and Ralph Radach on Fixation position changes during fixations in reading at the 46th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov 10-13, 2005, in Toronto, Canada.
was awarded support from the Roth Faculty Development Fund for a half-time summer research assistant for the summer of 2006 to help initiate studies to test whether monkeys respond cognitively in similar manners as do autistic children and adults.
was awarded a Wallin fellowship for release for a term in 2006-7 to complete a textbook on personality psychology.
Professor of Psychology, gave the invited keynote address at the annual meeting of the Iowa Teachers of Psychology in Pella, IA, November 4. His talk was entitled "Stop and Think."
Professor of Psychology, presented research entitled "Number Discrimination in a New World Monkey Species: Assessment of Tamarins Across 3 Tasks, All Using a 2:1 Ratio" at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov 10-13, in Toronto, Canada. Student co-authors included Maren Sonstegard ('05), Alison Lewis ('05), Kate Whillock ('08), Aisha Kudura ('06), and Elizabeth Gray ('08).
Assistant Professor of Psychology, will be appearing in six episodes of the upcoming PBS series
Mental Engineering . The show features round table discussions in which comedians and academics dissect television commercials. It will air in the Twin Cities on channel 17, Saturdays at 9:00pm, starting Oct. 1.
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, and Clark Ohnesorge, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, participated in the MidBrain Summer Institute in Neuroscience this past August. The workshop and 3-week lab rotation called Summer in Neuroscience (SIN) is hosted by a collaborative team of neuroscience faculty (MidBrain group) from Macalester, St Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus, UMN, and Carleton. To read more about this collaborative team and their findings, visit the
Summer Institute in Neuroscience website .
Professor of Psychology, was a panelist at a session on Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum, sponsored by the American Psychological Association Education Directorate held at the annual APA meeting in Washington, DC this August. Lutsky is a member of an APA task force writing a report on this initiative as part of an American Council on Education grant to APA.
On March 17, Professor Neiworth presented research entitled "Assessment of Number by Tamarins" with students Alison Lewis ('05) and Maren Sonstegard ('05) at the 12th Annual Comparative Cognition Society Meeting at Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, gave an invited address on March 15, 2005, 7:00 pm to the public and to two classes (developmental psychology and cognitive psychology) at Gustavus Adolphus. The title of her talk was "The Face in the Mirror: What Primate Reseach Tells Us about Evolution and the Human Mind."
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, was just elected for a three-year term (2005-2008) to serve as Councilor for the Psychology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), a national organization promoting undergraduate research.
Kathleen Galotti, Psychology, received a Eugster Fellowship to finish analyses and writing for publication the results of a four-year longitudinal study of people facing an important life decision: choosing an educational setting for first grade for their child.