From Allen McConnell:

MPA’s 90th annual meeting will be held April 12-14, 2018, at the Palmer House in Chicago. Interested people (faculty, graduate students, undergraduates) can register now for the conference on-line. We recently negotiated for significantly reduced room rates at the Palmer House and moved the conference earlier in the semester to avoid scheduling conflicts (e.g., graduation weekends, finals week). As a result, our discounted hotel block typically sells out well in advance of the registration deadline, and currently fewer than 20% of the discounted MPA rooms remain. Thus, I’d strongly encourage people to both register for the conference and grab a discounted Palmer House room as soon as possible (once our room block is sold, what remaining rooms are available will be considerably more expensive). More details can be found on-line: https://midwesternpsych.org

You may recognize Dr. Ajzen’s name from your Intro textbook if nowhere else, as a developer of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; and the precursor Theory of Reasoned Action). In 2010, it was reported that his research program had the highest scientific impact among 62 of the top social psychologists in the United States and Canada. The Department of Kinesiology & Health is sponsoring his visit to Miami, where he will give a colloquium and offer a workshop; they write:

• A one-hour talk, “The Theory of Planned Behavior: A Uniform Framework for the Prediction and Explanation of Behavior,” will be held at 2:30 on Feb 22, in Shideler 152.
• The purpose of the full-day workshop on Feb 23 is to spark new research ideas regarding theory and the TPB, foster collaborations across departments and colleges, and lead to the development of external grant submissions.

A detailed schedule of what he plans to cover in the workshop is available upon request. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please let me know or contact his host, Paul Branscum ([email protected]). The workshop has limited space, so please contact one of us ASAP.