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President:
Ivonne Estrella
Vice President:
Christina Song
Treasurer:
Amanda Rhoads
Secretary:
Natalie Dailey
Historian:
Sarah Tamborello
Assistant:
Laura Osegueda
Advisor:
Alice Andrews
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Calendar & Guest Speakers
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Please email us if you have any suggestions for speakers. Past speakers have included:
- Developmental Psychology Professor
- Counselor from the UT Mental Health Services
- Career counselor from the UT Career Exploration Center
- Psychiatrist from the OCD Austin Treatment Center
- Human Sexuality Professor
- Counseling Psychologist
- Forensic Psychiatrist
- Animal Behaviorist
- Therapist from the Austin State Hospital
- Speakers from Volunteer Organizations
- Evolutionary Psychology Professor
- Police Psychologist from Austin Police Department
- Graduate Student Panel
- and many others from every area of Psychology and many different professions!
SPRING 2008 Schedule
(meetings are every other Tuesday at 7 PM in Sea 2.108)
April 1, 2008
Speaker: Kristen Bradbury, PhD
Topic: "Family Acculturation of Gun Behavior"
Dr. Bradbury is a clinical psychologist from the Austin area and a lecturer for UT's Department of Psychology. She currently teaches popular classes in Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. Dr. Bradbury obtained her bachelor's degree from UT and went on to obtain a masters degree and a doctoral degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. We hope to see you on Tuesday for delicious snacks and a compelling lecture from a fascinating psychologist!
April 15, 2008
Speaker: Aaron Rochlen, PhD
Topic: "Current Trends in Men & Masculinity research"
Dr. Aaron Rochlen from the UT department of Counseling Psychology will be speaking to us about his current research and his observations from the field. Dr. Rochlen's research interests are largely male-oriented, including mens' under-utilization of counseling services, men in gender-atypical professions, and the stay-at-home-dad phenomenon. It should be a fascinating discussion and there will be delicious snacks. We hope to see you there!
http://www.utexas.edu/features/2008/fathers/
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/rochlen/ar.html
April 29, 2008
Event: Graduate Student Panel
Topic: "Graduate School: Notes from the Inside"
On Tuesday, April 29, WIP is excited to present our Spring 2008 Graduate Student Panel! A panel of graduate students from areas as diverse as social psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, and evolutionary psychology will be here to answer all of your questions related to the mystical, enigmatic institution known as "grad school" - what it takes to get in, what it's like, the professors, the classes, the research... all will be revealed. We hope to see you there!
Recent Meetings & Speakers from Spring 2008:
Jan 29, 2008
First Introductory meeting
Agenda:
Officer elections, speaker idea open forum, free pizza and drinks!
Feb 12, 2008
Speaker: Ramón R. Gómez, LMSW
Director, Student and Community Affairs at UT's School of Social Work
At our next meeting, Ramón Gómez will be speaking about social work, social work programs, and what it takes to get into graduate programs from a recruiters point of view. It should be an interesting and informative discussion and we hope to see you there! Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Feb 26, 2008
Speaker: Representative from the Alcohol Awareness Committee
Social event: Mocktail party and movie
Please join us for some fantastic fake cocktails and popcorn from That Popcorn Place to sip and munch on while we listen to a speaker from the Alcohol Awareness Committee of University Health Services. Afterward, we will be screening the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"! This meeting will count for three points toward our end of the year total.
March 18, 2008
Speaker: Mary Holman, MA, LPC
At our March 18 meeting, Mary Holman, a practicing licensed Professional Counselor in the area of Austin will be here to speak about her work, her experiences and observations from the field, and the particular requirements that go into obtaining an LPC degree.
FALL 2007 Schedule
(meetings are every other Tuesday at 7 PM in Sea 2.108)
November 27, 2007
Speaker: Porter Vigil, Scholarship and Grants Chair of the Young Women's Alliance
At our next meeting, a representative of the Young Woman's Alliance will be coming to speak about the organization and specific scholarship and grant opportunities that are sponsored by the program. The Young Woman's Alliance is a professional organization created to provide educational and networking resources for professional women. As always, free snacks and drinks will be provided. We hope to see you there!
First week of December
End of the Year Banquet!
Recent Meetings & Speakers:
September 11, 2007
Informational Meeting
T-shirt design
free pizza and drinks!
September 25, 2007
Time change: 6:00pm - 7:00pm<
T-shirt raffle winner announced
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Bigler on "Gender and Careers in Psychology: Statistical Trends and Personal Observations about the Field"
Dr. Bigler has been teaching at UT since 1991. Her expertise is in Developmental Psychology and she heads the Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab here at UT. She is the author and co-author of numerous studies in the cognitive/ developmental fields, especially in regards to the development of gender and racial attitudes in children. Dr. Bigler is generally considered to be one of the leading experts in her field.
October 9, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Sydney Kroll, Staff Counselor at the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center
Dr. Kroll will be speaking about psychology career options, graduate school, and the Counseling and Mental Health Center here at UT.
Dr. Kroll completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin and received her Psy.D. from Baylor University.
October 23, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Beer, Assistant Professor
Dr. Beer is a new faculty member to UT whose expertise lies in the ares of Cognition, Perception, Social Psychology, and the Self. Her current research projects investigate the connections between social cognition, emotion, self-processes, and social functioning. Dr. Beer's research lab integrates methodologies such as self and peer-report, coded observations, and brain-imaging technology.
November 6, 2007
Time Change: Please note that this meeting will start at 5 PM and end at 8 PM!
5 PM- 6 PM: Speaker Dr. Andreana Haley, Assistant Professor
6 PM- 8 PM: Movie Social: 50 First Dates
Dr. Haley received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2005 and joined UT's faculty as a professor in Clinical Psychology in 2007. She classifies herself as a clinical neuropsychologist whose research interests include dementia, metabolic syndrome, neuroimaging, neuropsychological assessment, and age and disease-related cognitive impairment.
We'll be providing drinks, Tiff's Treats, and popcorn from That Popcorn Place. We'll also be finalizing plans for an upcoming volunteer opportunity. This meeting will be worth three points towards qualification for the End of the Year Banquet (1 for attending a speaker meeting, 2 for attending a social).
All are welcome! We hope to see you there!
Click here to view meeting summaries from Spring 2005.
Click here to view meeting summaries from Fall 2005.
Click here to view meeting summaries from Spring 2006.
Click here to view pictures from the 2005 40 Acres Fest.
