Tuesday Newsday: February 8, 2022

 

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DEPARTMENT NEWS

 

Congratulations to Dr. Amber Williams!!

 

 

Get Ready to Register

Registration for Spring 2022 is coming up fast and now is a great time to get prepared! Check Student Center to see what date and time you register, head on over to Degree Planner to see what classes are available and to make sure you're on track to graduation.  use Schedule Builder to set yourself up for Spring Quarter.

Helpful tip! Planning your classes in Degree Planner lets the department know how many people want to take which classes, so they know which ones to offer and how many sections to offer!

If you would like extra help registering, or you have more questions, attend a registration workshop! 

 Important Information about Spring 2022 PSYCD Courses...

• The Tentative Course Offerings page shows what PSYCD courses will be offered in Spring.  
• CD 302: Developmental Science Technology Lab will be available by permission number only to students graduating in Spring 2022 or Summer 2022. Please email Beatriz Peralta (bperal01@calpoly.edu) for more information or to request a permission number.
• The following courses may have limited availability next year, if you need/want these classes consider taking them now:  PSY/CD 356, PSY 304, PSY 352, PSY 475, PSY 480.

 

Internship News

• The deadline for placement in fieldwork internships for Spring 2022 has passed. If you need a Spring Placement to graduate in Spring 2022/Summer 2022/Fall 2022, and you missed the deadline, or you have any questions or concerns, please email Dr. Garcia.  
• An updated Fieldwork Site List is now up! You can read more about internships, including prerequisites and field work sites, here. 

• Research internships will be limited to students graduating in or before Fall 2022 and to students on the PSYCD Research Track (PSY/CD 448, 449)

• To explore the possibility of a research internship, please review faculty research interests on our faculty page. Not all faculty are accepting research interns at this time. To find out whether you might join a faculty research lab, attend the office hours for professors whose research activities match your interests. 

 

Help PSYCD Students with their Senior Projects

Breakup Breakdowns Senior Project. While in the process of discovering who they are, young adults often encounter the painful and messy realities of navigating through romantic relationships. Relational turbulence, breakups, and heartaches are serious concerns that intensely affect adolescents and young adults. Our senior project explores pre-existing factors leading to romantic relationship dissolution, functionality of breakups and techniques, how it impacts young adults in a variety of different ways, and how infidelity plays a complicated role in the breakup process. If you’re interested in learning more follow us on Instagram at cp.breakup.breakdowns. If you want to submit your own breakup story, go to “Romantic Relationship Revelations” in our Linktree.

CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES

Learn more here: https://cla.calpoly.edu/teach-in

OFF-CAMPUS RESEARCH, MENTORING, CONFERENCE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 

 

• CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE THAT COMPILES PAID INTERNSHIPS, CONFERENCES, GRAD SCHOOL INFORMATION SESSIONS:  www.psychresearchlist.com 

• THIS IS ALSO A GREAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADUATE SCHOOL, INTERNSHIPS, ETC.:  www.spsp.org/resources/student

 

Evolve: Developing Financial Literacy for Systems Change on Wednesday, Feb. 9th at 2pm PT: Building financial literacy has great potential to empower communities. Systemic inequity in our nation is often a catalyst for lack of access to financial literacy and resources that would allow the building of personal and generational wealth, widening the wealth gap. Join Yanely Espinal for this workshop as we learn more about how to empower communities through financial literacy and explore financial tips for your own life and career. Register to attend: https://engagetfa.org/TFAFinance

Teach For America Virtual Info Session on Thursday, Feb. 10th at 5pm PT: Want to launch a career of impact? Curious to learn about post-graduate career opportunities? Join us for a virtual Teach For America Info Session to learn about the work we do to pursue educational equity. This virtual event will feature Teach For America corps members and alumni who will share about their experience in the classroom, skills they gained, and how they transferred those skills to make a lifelong impact. Register here to attend and start your application to the 2022 or 2023 corps here!

 

2022 Panetta Institute Congressional Internship Program

Applications are due 5pm, Friday February 11th, 2022. For more information, please see provost.calpoly.edu/Panetta-CIP-Main.

 

Stronger Together Summit, February 16th-18th

More information can be found at  https://connectingtoprotect.org/ There is a scholarship available for the conference, the application link is  https://form.jotform.com/210662477381862. 

 

The Boston College Developmental Psychology program is now accepting applications for our NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates summer internship. Summer interns will gain hands-on experience in all aspects of socio-cognitive developmental psychology research while also participating in professional development meetings and learning computer programming. This is an excellent program for students who want to learn more about research who may be interested in pursuing graduate school. Successful applicants will work full-time for 10 weeks from May 30 - Aug 5. Students will be paid $600 per week plus provided on-campus housing across 10 weeks to participate. 

This internship will take place in-person on Boston College’s campus. Students will be provided with on-campus housing in addition to their stipend. 

There are four participating developmental psychology labs. Students will be accepted to primarily work within one of these labs for the duration of the summer. Students will indicate their lab preference in the application.

THE CANINE COGNITION LAB (Dr. Angie Johnston) investigates the evolutionary origins of human social learning by comparing human children and pet dogs. Building off of traditional developmental methods used with infants and children, interns will have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on classic developmental questions by investigating which aspects of human social learning are shared with dogs and which may be unique to humans.

THE COOPERATION LAB (Dr. Katherine McAuliffe) studies how children acquire a sense of fairness, how they regulate their investment in cooperative endeavors, how the development of cooperation varies across different social and cultural contexts and how an emerging psychology of cooperation in children interfaces with other aspects of conceptual development like perspective taking and group bias.  

THE INFANT AND CHILD COGNITION LAB (Dr. Sara Cordes) studies how infants, children, and adults track number and acquire formal mathematical concepts (from verbal counting in preschoolers to algebraic concepts in teenagers), with a large focus on how learning of these concepts are influenced by social contexts and gender stereotypes. 

THE LANGUAGE LEARNING LAB (Dr. Joshua Hartshorne) takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying how children learn language. In addition to traditional developmental research methods, the lab makes use of massive online experiments, in which tens or even hundreds of thousands of children and adults participate in a single experiment, and computational models of language acquisition. 

Eligibility requirements: Students who are from underrepresented minority groups (Hispanics or Latinos, Blacks or African Americans, and American Indians or Alaska Natives), are first generation college students, are members of the LGBTQ+ community, or are veterans and who have had little or no research experience will be given priority. Additionally, applicants must be enrolled in an American undergraduate program and be entering their sophomore, junior or senior years. Interns will be required to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 including a booster shot in order to work on campus. 

Please (1) complete the application form: https://forms.gle/CdwnRazD1Famcqcb8 and (2) email your CV/resume to allbcdev@gmail.com. You may also submit an unofficial transcript via email, but it is optional. Review of applications will begin on March 1. No applications will be accepted after March 15. 

 

Lab Manager - Social Learning Lab @ Stanford University

The Social Learning Lab (PI: Hyo Gweon) in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University welcomes enthusiastic, motivated individuals to apply for a lab manager position to start in summer 2022. This person will work closely with other lab members to assist in all aspects of running the lab and conducting research. Expected start date is mid June 2022 but there's some flexibility.

The goal of our research is to understand the cognitive underpinnings of our ability to learn from others and help others learn.  We employ a variety of methods, including behavioral studies with young children (age 1 - 8), in-lab and online studies with adults, neuroimaging (fMRI), and computational modeling. We are looking for someone who would feel comfortable being involved in all aspects of research (especially behavioral studies with young children) and take care of general lab business. Examples of lab business include (but are not limited to):  data collection/analysis, managing databases, training & coordinating undergraduate RAs, stimuli construction, maintaining computer software/hardware, and coordinating outreach activities, and organizing lab events. The lab has off-campus research sites in public museums, and the job will involve regular visits to these sites. Opportunities to develop independent research projects will also be available.

A BA or BS degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, or in related fields would be helpful but not required. We will consider research experience, quantitative background (statistics, data analysis), and technical skills (e.g., R, Python, Javascript), organizational skills, and communicative abilities in the selection process. (Note: The applicant should be eligible to work in the US as a full-time employee).  

To apply, please refer to Join Our Lab page on our website (http://sll.stanford.edu) for more information. Note that we ask all applicants to submit their answers to a list of questions as part of the application, along with their CV.  To ensure full consideration, please apply by Sunday, February 13, 2022. Send all inquiries to: sll.stanford@gmail.com.
 

ICIS Infancy Science Undergraduate Fellowship

The International Congress of Infant Studies is offering a limited number of grants of up to $4,000 to support undergraduate student research in infancy science during the summer of 2022. The grants will fund research with a mentor at an institution other than the student’s own.  Students should apply after they have corresponded with a prospective summer mentor and developed a plan for the summer project. 

Students are expected to work approximately 20 hours per week for 8 weeks.  A stipend of $2,400 can be requested to offset lost wages at $15 per hour.  Other expenses (e.g., transportation, internet hotspot, food, housing) can be included in the proposal, for a total budget of $4,000.  Receipts will be required for reimbursement of all non-stipend expenditures.

Students will present their work at a virtual symposium in early fall of 2022, attended by ICIS Board members, mentors, and student awardees.  Students are also encouraged to submit their work to the 2024 Congress to be held in Glasgow (they may apply for travel support).

Applications are due: February 15, 2022.

For more information and a list of mentors, please visit: https://infantstudies.org/founding-generation-fellowship-guidelines/  

 

The Georgetown Laboratory for Relational Cognition, directed by Dr. Adam Green, is seeking a full-time lab manager with a preferred start date of early summer 2022. Please see the attached advertisement and forward to the society listserv. For more information on the lab, see our website. With any questions, please contact Grace Porter at cnglab@georgetown.edu.

 

University of California, Berkeley: Language and Cognitive Development Lab Summer Internship Program

The Language and Cognitive Development Lab at UC Berkeley, under the direction of Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan, is now accepting applications for our 2022 summer internship program. Highly motivated undergraduates, graduating seniors, and recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Our lab explores how linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities arise during human development and a central goal of our research is exploring how these different aspects of development interact with one another.

The 9-week internship will be from May 31st to July 29th 2022. Interns will be expected to work 30 hours/week and will be offered a $3,375 stipend. Depending on public health conditions, this internship may be virtual or onsite; an announcement will be made closer to the start date. 

Interns will work closely with the lab manager, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and each other, and will meet with Professor Srinivasan to discuss their research. Interns will be involved in many facets of the research process, such as: assisting with data collection, running studies at local schools and museums, working on stimuli creation and preparation of study materials, reading relevant theoretical and empirical papers, recruiting participants, and processing or analyzing data. The goal of this program is to provide a comprehensive, hands-on research experience to students, while making valuable contributions to cognitive science.

Please refer to https://lcdlab.berkeley.edu/summer-internship/ for more information and application instructions. The application deadline is March 14th 8:00 AM PDT.
Please direct any questions to Grace Horton at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu.

Please check Tuesday Newsday archives for past info on opportunities.