Developmental Science will hold a colloquium featuring Dr. Joshua Hartshorne of Boston College. The title of Dr. Hartshorne’s talk will be A critical period for second language acquisition: A study of 700,000 English speakers.
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled Signaling networks that control synapse development and cognitive function. Michael Greenberg PhD of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Eric Bittman and takes place in the Integrated Learning Center, Room N151 from 4:00-5:00pm.
Refreshments will be served from 3:45-4:00pm and reception at the UClub will be held after the talk.
Nate Kornell PhD, Associate Professor at Williams College, will present a talk titled Learning is from Mars, student perceptions of learning are from Venus
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled How emotional arousal transforms how we see, think and remember. Mara Mather of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Becky Ready and takes place in 222 Morrill Science Center II from 4:00-5:00pm.
Brian Dillon PhD, Assistant Professor at UMass-Amherst, will present a talk titled The ambiguity advantage and syntactic processing: Evidence from speeded acceptability judgments
Here’s an opportunity to hear Dr. Erik Cheries, licensed social worker Jennifer Canella, and clinical graduate student Alice Coyne discuss strategies for applying to graduate school, differences among various programs, importance of research, and related issues of interest to those of you planning to apply to graduate school in psychology or social work in the near or remote future!
UMass Amherst Campus Center, 11th floor Marriott Center
A memorial service for Sy Epstein will be held Sunday September 25th at 2pm. It will be located at the Marriott Center on the 11th floor of the UMass Campus Center. The address is 1 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003
All who would like to say a few words at Sy’s memorial are welcomed:
Dr. Shaun Wiley, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of New Jersey, will present a talk entitled, “Comrades in the Struggle: The Roles of Identity and Stigma in Intentions to Engage in Allied Activism".
Dr. Wiley conducts research on the role of people's group memberships in their responses to and participation in social change.