Thanks to Christina Fitzpatrick, who suggested this set of slides on time management tips that was presented recently during the professional development series that the Graduate School is offering. This series provides some great programming on Fridays, 1:00 – 2:30; feel free to contact me or the Graduate School for a schedule.
Category Archives: Grad
Child, adolescent & parent volunteers needed
From Vaishali; please contact her if you are willing to help out. Please also feel free to distribute to those you know who might be willing:
The doctoral program in clinical psychology is looking for children and adolescents (ages 7-15) and their parents to help graduate students learn to administer assessment measures and conduct clinical interviews in the upcoming weeks.
Participation would involve bringing your child/adolescent to the Psychology Clinic on the Oxford Campus for one or two testing sessions and parents participating in a 30 minute interview. Graduate students are willing to accommodate family schedules by being available in the evenings and on weekends and will provide small prizes/rewards for the children/adolescents.
Because our students are learning how to administer the tests, the test administration cannot be considered valid and we cannot give you feedback about how your child did. However, children and parents in the past have found the experience to be really valuable as they can learn about the process of psychological assessment.
Cross cultural grad mentoring
Valerie Robinson in the Graduate School is once again running a program on cross-cultural mentoring for graduate students, and is seeking faculty mentors and grad student participants:
In Fall 2015, the Graduate School introduced a program in Cross Cultural Mentoring. We partnered interested faculty with diverse doctoral students with all but dissertation status. It was a successful initiative by a number of measures and we want to extend it this year to include more graduate students. We hope you consider participating.
We seek doctoral level faculty and staff who will engage the student not as an advisor, but as a role model, counselor, and experienced future colleague, providing support for the research process and preparing for life after the dissertation.
We seek diverse doctoral students in at least their second year who are interested in a mutually beneficial mentoring relationship with a faculty or staff member.
Please contact Valerie directly if you are interested in participating in this worthwhile initiative.
Graduate seminar on research mentoring
Joyce Fernandes, Professor of Biology and Director of the Office of Research for Undergraduates, is offering a graduate seminar this semester for graduate students who desire to engage in a more intentional discussion and development of mentoring undergraduate research assistants. It will meet Mondays 10:05 – 11:00, and seems to be relatively low commitment. From Joyce (whom you should contact if interested), the seminar will achieve these learning outcomes:
- Address topics such as communication, setting goals and expectations, identifying and resolving challenges and issues, evaluating our progress as mentors, and developing a mentoring philosophy.
- Set up mentoring goals for current mentees in the lab, and develop an assessment plan
- Become aware of ongoing assessment of undergraduate research at Miami.
- Develop familiarity with literature in the area of mentoring and assessing undergraduate research
P&G Higher Education Grant
Proctor & Gamble supports a fund to support projects across a number of institutions, including Miami. There is currently an open call for those interested in developing submissions:
The P&G Fund for Higher Education is now accepting grant proposals for the 2018-19 year. Here is a link to a form that you may use for proposals. Grants range from $5,000-10,000 and Miami is permitted to request a total of $50,000 for all projects (with a limitation of 2 projects per division).
Programs must meet the following criteria:
– Improve curriculum to be at the cutting edge in relevance and effectiveness
– Foster and enable leadership opportunities and learning
– Create a learning environment that encourages and enhances innovation and creativity
– Strengthen diversity in thought, participation and ongoing interaction
– Utilize the funding on an expendable basis (i.e no endowments)
If you are interested, feel free to see me for consultation in preparing an effective proposal.
APA Graduate Student Awards: Dissertation and early student
Graduate students should consider applying for these awards or, if not currently eligible, filing it away for the future! Faculty, please encourage your talented students to apply!
APA Dissertation Research Awards and Early Graduate Student Researcher Awards: Call for applications
The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association is managing two award programs for graduate student research in 2018. For both awards, applications are welcome from graduate students of psychology in any research specialty area. The application deadline for the Dissertation Research Award is Sept. 1, 2018, and the deadline for the Early Graduate Student Researcher Award is Sept. 14, 2018.
If you have questions, please contact the Science Directorate via email or by telephone at (202) 336-6000.
APA Dissertation Research Awards
The Dissertation Research Award assists science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. In 2018, APA will grant up to 30 awards of $1,000 each, as well as several awards of up to $5,000 each to students whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology.
For more details about this award, including eligibility requirements and application materials, visit the APA Dissertation Research Awards webpage.
Early Graduate Student Researcher Awards
The Early Graduate Student Research Award, sponsored by the APA Science Student Council, recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding research abilities early in their graduate training (i.e., research conducted within the first two years of doctoral study). Both overall research experience and specific completed research projects are considered in selecting awardees.
Up to three awards are given each year, drawn from basic science, applied science and interdisciplinary science areas. Each Early Graduate Student Research Award is in the amount of $1,000.
For more details about the awards, including eligibility requirements and application materials, visit the Early Graduate Student Researcher Awards webpage.
New writing center for English language learners
From Liz Wardle, Howe Center for Writing Excellence:
The new English Language Learner Writing Center (ELL WC) has begun offering limited services this semester. It will become fully operational at several sites around campus in the fall.
I am writing to let you know that the ELL WC website is now operational, so you can share it with your students and colleagues: http://miamioh.edu/ellwc. The site includes information on how to make appointments, as well as resources such as grammar tutorials.
If you have questions or would like to schedule a department workshop or one-on-one consultation regarding working effectively with multilingual writers, please contact the ELL WC Coordinator, Dr. Larysa (Lora) Bobrova.
Celebrating graduate student awards
Several of our graduate students have received some notable recognition that I am proud to share! Feven Ogbaselase received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her work with Dr. Aaron Luebbe; Tony Drew received the College of Arts & Science Graduate Student Teaching Award for his work in PSY 293 (Mentor, Jay Smart); and Marie Parsons (Mentor, Elise Clerkin) and Dorian Dodd (Mentor, April Smith) received a P.E.O. Scholar Award. Join me in congratulating these deserving students.
Congratulations to our clinical internship applicants!
Some wonderful news from Aaron Luebbe, Director of Clinical Training:
It is with extreme pleasure that I inform you that 100% of students
who applied for the predoctoral clinical internship matched this year!
This result is the culmination of months (years) of hard work,
preparation, and dedication by these students, along with the support
of their mentors and peers. I’m grateful for the support that our
program provides one another. And the sites at which these students
matched are some of the top in the nation.
So please join me in congratulating the following students who have
matched at the following sites:
Natalie Cook: Phoenix VA Health Care System
Mills Smith-Millman: VA Maryland HCS/Univ Maryland School of Medicine
Belinda Teo: Hawthorn Center
Please join me in congratulating these students, and recognizing the efforts of our strong clinical program in bringing this about. We wish these students the best of success as they head for their internships later this year!
Congratulations to our 2018-19 Dissertation Scholar!
I am pleased to announce that Lauren Forrest has been selected as the 2018-19 Dissertation Scholar for the department. Lauren’s dissertation, under the direction of April Smith, will examine the role of interoception (the ability to detect and become cognitively aware of the sensations present in the body) in differentiating among those with suicidal self-injurious behaviors, non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, and healthy controls. Please join me in congratulating Lauren as she pursues this important work!