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Saturday
4-6:30 PM
Parking Lot E across Cummings Street from the stadium
Welcome Back Tailgate Party
| This one's for you! The PSYCHOLOGY KINGDOM is especially
invited to come out for a Cheeseburger in Paradise tailgate
party as the Terriers take on Coastal Carolina!
There will be tropical music, tropical attire, and Dr. Pittman will be cooking up smoking hot cheeseburgers (as well as veggie burgers and chicken too!), side dishes, sodas, and dessert. Bring your friends and come party with us! |
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Thursday
11 AM
RMSC 121
Invited Guest Speaker:
Gil Einstein, Ph.D.
ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Einstein is a professor of psychology at Furman University. Dr. Einstein's general research interests are in the area of memory specifically focusing on prospective memory, which is memory for future actions such as remembering to take medication.
Saturday
10 AM
Gibbs Stadium
Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk
Alzheimer's Associate Memory Walk
The Psychology Kingdom will be supporting the Upstate Alzheimer's Association by participating in their annual Memory Walk held on-campus. You can participate by collecting donations and walking in the event. Visit the Memory Walk web site for more details. Contact Cameron Corbin to get involved!
Thursday
11 AM
RMSC 233
Graduate School & Career Opportunities:
Physical & Occupational Therapy
Physical & Occupational Therapy
Sara Shields (class of 2005) is in her second year of the 3-year physical therapy graduate program at MUSC. She will speak about how being a Wofford psychology major has prepared her for graduate school, specifics about the MUSC graduate programs in rehabilitation, and career options for physical therapists. Sara was one of our top students in the class of 2005, so come out and learn first-hand from her what you can do now as a student in our major in order to succeed in graduate school.
Friday
3 PM
RMSC 233
Senior Assessment
Psychology GRE Exam Assessment
for Senior Psychology Majors
All senior psychology majors are required to take this assessment exam following the Psychology GRE format. Contact Dr. Lefebvre with questions.
Thursday
5-7 PM
Andrews Field House
Wofford College Halloween Carnival
Halloween Carnival Booth: Face Painting & Tattoos
Boo! It's time to help make Halloween special for the boys & girls of Spartanburg. We will be applying temporary Halloween tattoos to excited and over-sugared children!
Contact Mo Roberts to volunteer to help out with the booth!
Tuesday
11 AM
Olin 213
Community of Scholars Research Presentations
Taste Sensitivity to Free Fatty Acids in Obese-prone & Obese-resistant Rats.
Psychology major, Kimberly Smith ('08) will present the findings of her research conducted in the summer 2006 Community of Scholar's Program. Come find out how our genes may influence our taste perception of dietary fats!
Monday
11 AM - 1:50 PM
Holcomb Room
Invited Guest Speaker:
J.P. Baird, Ph.D.
By Invitation: Luncheon with Dr. JP Baird
Contact Dr. Dave Pittman to be invited to a luncheon with Dr. JP Baird, assistant professor of psychology at Amherst College. Dr. Baird will discuss life at Amherst College and lead an informal discussion on the CNS control of ingestive behavior.Monday
2 PM
RMSC 233
Invited Guest Speaker:
J.P. Baird, Ph.D.
Forebrain-Hindbrain integration in the control of feeding behavior.
ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Baird is an assistant professor of psychology at Amherst College. His research seeks to identify neural mechanisms that participate in feeding behavior. Specifically, Dr. Baird is interested in how sensations evoked by simple food stimuli affect feeding and how they are initially processed in the brain. He uses refined behavioral analysis and electrophysiological recording techniques to determine how systematic variations in food type (e.g., taste quality), site of sensation (mouth versus gut), and central neurochemical treatment, affect feeding microstructure and related neural responses at first- and second-order sensory relays in the brainstem.Tuesday
1-2:30 PM
RMSC 222
WCU Graduate School Information Session
Roundtable Discussion about Graduate School Opportunities in Psychology at Western Carolina University
Dr. Acheson and several other faculty members from Western Carolina University will be here on November 7th for the Graduate/Professional School Day from 10:30-12:30. That afternoon, Dr. Lefebvre is hoping to schedule a round table discussion for psychology majors to meet and ask questions about the WCU graduate school opportunities for psychology majors. This would tentatively be from 1-2:30 in Dr. Lefebvre's lab.
Sunday
3-5 PM
Star Lanes on East Main St.
Student Organized Event: Faculty vs. Students Bowling Competition
The faculty challenge the students to a BOWL-OFF!
The psychology department faculty challenge the Psychology Kingdom students to a bowling competition. Come sign-up on to be on the student teams on the bulletin board in the psychology department.
Sunday
Senior Assessment
Major Field Test Assessment
for Senior Psychology Majors
All senior psychology majors are required to take this national assessment exam. You will receive a percentile rating of your knowledge that is standardized for all psychology majors taking the exam in the United States. Contact Dr. Lefebvre with questions.
Thursday
5:30 PM Location: Gerhard's
Holiday Party
Friday
2-4 PM
Olin Theater
Student Research Presentations
Monday