Monday Missive February 11, 2008

Monday Missive
February 11, 2008

APA Site Visit for School Psychology Thursday and Friday
Thursday and Friday, February 14 and 15 we will have an APA accreditation visit for School Psychology. This is a very important visit for all of us. In particular, all faculty members should make themselves available on Friday, February 15 between 11:30 - 12:00 to meet with the site visit team in TC 200D. All School Psychology students should make themselves available on Thursday, February 14 between 1:30 - 2:30 in 200D. The final schedule has been placed in your mailboxes, in the front office, and is attached for your review.

Thursday, Feb 14 1:30 – 2:30 Meeting with Students: School Psychology Program TC 200D
Friday, Feb 15 11:30 – 12:00 Meeting with Department Faculty TC 200D

A Note from Graduate Student Joel Martin
Faculty and classmates,
My wife Kristen and I wish to briefly thank you all for your kind words of encouragement, flowers, gifts, cards, thoughts, and prayers as I begin my battle with lymphoma. In the coming months, you can receive updates on my progress at the blog we have created (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/joelmartin). Again, thank you all for your kindness and support for both me and my family.
~Joel Martin

Kudos
Andrew Davis and School Psychology graduate students Mei Chang and Matt Holcomb made a presentation to high school students for a training course for the Brain Bee. The title of the presentation is: The Behavioral Geography of the Brain, Related Disorders, and Clinical Neuropsychology.

KC Bronk had a paper, Early Adolescents' Conceptions of the Good Life and the Good Person, accepted for publication in Adolescence. KC also has a paper entitled The Role of Purpose in Life in the Lives of Adolescents accepted for presentation at the Society for Research in Adolescence.

Educational Psychology Graduate Students Molly Jameson and Kristen Williams had a paper, Sports, clubs, or music: Which extracurricular activities are related to postsecondary educational aspirations?, accepted for presentation at the Conference on Human Development in Indianapolis, IN.

Graduate Student Recognition Reception
It is time to recognize our outstanding graduate students once again at the Graduate Student Recognition Reception in April. Just looking at the list below I know we have many students to be recognized. Don't be shy it is time to brag so student enter the information yourself or talk with your supervisor.

From the graduate school email:

We would like to recognize those individuals whose accomplishments have clearly exceeded expectations for students in your program. Specifically, we will recognize individuals who have achieved one or more of the following since April 2007:
Authorship on a refereed publication
Presentation at a refereed regional or national convention
National or regional award for creative works including producing or creating an original work of art
Research grant
Creative arts grant
Fellowship
Professional certification
Original software development
Other professional or academic honor

As in the past, you will provide information about student achievements via a web-based form. To access this system, go to www.bsu.edu/webapps2/gradrecognition. For each student to be recognized, enter their BSU ID. You will then be able to enter their achievement. (NOTE: Students may enter their own achievements by accessing the same link). As you will see, each achievement for that student will be entered separately.

All student achievements MUST be entered by February 18, 2008 to be included in the program. We need this lead time to prepare an accurate program.

International Programs Endowment Fund
The deadline for submitting a proposal for the International Programs Endowment Fund is March 14, 2008. Forms are available in the front office.

New SPSS (for PC and MAC) and AMOS Available
Penny has the new PC versions of SPSS and AMOS. Per Mike Modesitt we also have SPSS 16 for Macintosh (universal binary). Please contact Mike Modesitt (mmodesitt@bsu.edu) to get your version.

Per Mike: We also have the new Mac Operating System (Mac OS 10.5 – LEOPARD). In the next few weeks Mike Modesitt will start scheduling workshops and installations for this important update. This new OS brings many exciting feature to our faculty, staff and students -
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html> To see just a few highlighted download the video for a guided tour. Of particular usefulness are "Time Machine" at 9:34, "Spaces" at 13:51 and "iChat" at 20:50. If you now someone ready to upgrade have them contact me. We have many options available for self installation.

I hope I have not forgotten anything, but if I have please let me know.

Here is to a great week!

Lisa