Announcements

• Looking for more information about the 4000-level courses in the Psychology Department that are being taught in the spring? Click HERE to see course descriptions and sample syllabi when available. If you have additional questions about the course, or for courses not listed here, please email the instructor directly (instructors are listed in the schedule of courses). And don't forget to check out the instructor evaluations that UF provides for students: http://www.aa.ufl.edu/aa/dass/tcheval/search/.
• The Psychology Department's Advisory Board sponsors a facebook page "University of Florida Psychology". It is a gathering place for all things having to do with the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida. All are welcome: Faculty, Friends, Alumni, Grads, Undergrads, staff, etc. Post your announcements, gatherings, activities, meetings, opportunities, pictures, and discuss issues and post questions to others etc. Click here to go to the website.

Upcoming Events

Opportunities

• NEW! Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Mid Florida has several internship positions available for casework assistants (although unpaid, you can earn course credit via PSY 4949). The duties and responsibilities of this position are: to assist professional mentor staff in the administration of our mentoring services to youth; process inquiries; manage client files; enter data into database; background screenings; supervision of mentor matches; volunteer recruitment; child recruitment; public relations. Those engaged in this position will play a vital support role in the implementation of our mentoring services and will have first- hand experience in the management of a not-for-profit organization. The qualifications for this position include: interest and experience in human services; Office computer skills; ability to work in a professional environment. Interns are expected to work 10-20 hours/week (Monday through Friday 9AM to 5PM), dependent on credit requirements of your department. To apply, send resume to Paul Halpern, Executive Director, paul@bbbsmidflorida.org indicating in the subject line your interest in this position. No phone calls, please. An in-person interview will be required.
• NEW! The UF Graduate Student Council will be holding its Annual 2010 Interdisciplinary Research Conference on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 from 8 am-5 pm in the Reitz Union. We would like to invite all interested undergraduate students to submit an application/abstract for a project, poster, or senior thesis they are working on. The application and more information about the conference can be found at http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsc/researchConference.html . Applications and abstracts are due December 23, 2009 and can be submitted via email to gsc.conference@gmail.com.
• Peaceful Paths is now accepting intern applications for the Violence Prevention Program for the Spring 2010 Semester. Peaceful Paths is the local Domestic Violence Center in Gainesville, Florida. Our Violence Prevention Program engages in social change work around the issue of preventing intimate partner violence before it begins through community collaboration, particularly with youth in local schools and community agencies. Interns with the Violence Prevention Program will engage in the following: (1) state required 24 hour domestic violence core competency training (usually conducted one weekend and several evenings at Peaceful Paths), (2) ongoing training to gain understanding and confidence in violence prevention concepts and tools, and (3) community projects. Click here for a more detailed description of our program and intern expectations. Please feel free to contact Liz Martin (lizm@peacefulpath.org) or Morgan Moeller (morganm@peacefulpaths.org) if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
• The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service Program fully funds undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of technical areas, including Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, and all fields of engineering. This is a highly-selective, prestigious, national program that fully supports students' education, including full tuition and a very generous stipend while you are in school. Summer internships at Labs are required. In return for fully funding their education, students are required work as a civilian employee at a Service (Army, Navy, Air Force) or DoD Agency (NSA, DIA, DARPA, etc.) laboratory for a period equal to the time the program paid for their school. Students must be U.S. Citizens, able to obtain a DoD Security Clearance, and be willing to work in a defense laboratory upon graduation. More information and the application web page are available at http://www.asee.org/fellowships/smart/. The application deadline is December 15, 2009 for the 2010 school year. If you have any questions, please email smart@asee.org or call (202) 331-3544.

Job Opportunities

• Gregory Aarons, Ph.D. of the University of California San Diego Psychiatry Department is looking to hire a research assistant for a CDC R01 project, Dynamic Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Child Maltreatment Intervention. The research assistant will work at Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC), a division of Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. The main duties and responsibilities will include coordinating participation retention and tracking of research participants, preparing and administering survey instruments, tracking and downloading data using web-based survey programs, conducting research data analysis, and compiling agency feedback reports. Applicants must: (1) have at least a bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, or sociology and a strong background in research methods; (2) possess knowledge of public sector mental health and social service organizations; (3) have demonstrated experience managing data and performing basic descriptive analyses using SPSS or SAS software. The position is full-time, salary ranging from $2,423 - $2,850 per month. Full benefits are available. For more info, go to https://jobs.ucsd.edu/bulletin/job.aspx?cat=new&sortby=post&jobnum_in=50311 .
• Dr. Meredith Rowe is looking for a full-time Research Assistant/Lab Manager for her Language Development and Parenting Laboratory in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Research Assistant’s duties will include: transcribing videos of parent-child interaction, developing and applying coding schemes to the transcripts, data entry, literature searches and reviews on related topics, assisting with IRB protocols, developing stimuli, and occasional data collection with toddlers and preschoolers. In addition, the Research Assistant will help to train and manage undergraduates working in the laboratory on various projects. The candidate must have a bachelor’s degree with a related major (psychology, human development, speech and hearing sciences, education, or linguistics). The position would be ideal for someone who wishes to go to on to graduate school but first desires some valuable research experience. The ideal candidate will have experience with the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES); will have some research experience and experience with young children; and will be organized and independent and willing to make an 18 month (minimum) commitment to the position. This is a full-time job with excellent benefits and an anticipated start date in January 2010. To Apply: Interested applicants should send via email a cover letter detailing experience, a CV/Resume, and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of two to three professional references to Dr. Rowe at mrowe@umd.edu. Review of applications begins immediately, but the search will remain open until the position is filled.
• The GWU Social Cognition Laboratory (http://www.subiaul.com) under the direction of Dr. Francys Subiaul is seeking a full-time lab manager to coordinate research on social learning in infants and young children. Job duties include: (1) conducting experiments with infants and young children; (2) training and supervising a staff of undergraduate and graduate research assistants; (3) general administrative duties, including data management and maintenance of budgets, lab web pages and recruiting participants; as well as (4) providing general support to Dr. Subiaul and other researchers in the laboratory. Candidates should have: a bachelor's degree in psychology or a related scientific field such as cognitive science; one or more years of research experience; the ability to work independently; keen attention to detail; excellent public relations skills; and the ability to interact warmly and professionally with parents and children. Strong organizational, computational, managerial, problem-solving, and analytic skills are essential. Please send a letter of interest describing your research experiences and career goals, a current resume, unofficial college transcript, and two or more reference letters to Francys Subiaul via email (subiaul@aol.com) no later than December 1, 2009.
• Here's a job opportunity for graduating seniors. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington offers a Post-Bachelor Fellowship program that combines a professional position with the opportunity to gain first-hand research experience in global health, advanced training in health metrics, and the opportunity to apply for a fully-funded Master of Public Health. For the program description and instructions on how to apply, click here.
• Environment America is currently hiring graduating seniors for our 2010-2012 fellowship program and will be on campus mid-November to interview candidates. Environment America is a federation of state-based environmental advocacy groups working to protect clean air, clean water and open spaces around the country. Our mission is to research and advocate the policies and build and mobilize the public support necessary to win positive change for our environment. We have more than 100 professional staff working with the state-based groups in our national federation and in our Washington, D.C., office. This is a great opportunity for students with a passion for protecting our environment: they will have the opportunity to get training from experienced advocates and organizers while making real social change. For more information and links to the online application, click here.