This Saturday, April 4, the Hutton Honors College is holding its third annual Research Symposium & Fair at the new Honors building, the corner of 7th and Woodlawn, from 9:30-5:00. This is an exciting chance for students to learn about the research being conducted by IU students and find out more about the research opportunities at IUB. Any IU student is welcome to the symposium and fair and there will be refreshments served at the Meet and Greet at 9:30 in the Great Room.
This is a great opportunity for any student planning to write a senior thesis or a research paper for any class to learn how they could present their work at next year’s symposium. All IU students are invited to participate in the Honors
Research Symposium and Fair. The poster fair takes place in the Student Collaborative Work room from 1:15-2:15. Come participate in a great professional development opportunity!
We hope to see you Saturday!
The Research Symposium Steering Committee
Lynn Cochran
Assistant Dean
Hutton Honors College
811 E. 7th Street
(812) 855-3554
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Colloquium: Selma Sabanovic
You are cordially invited to attend this School of Informatics Colloquium:
Monday, April 6
2:00 p.m.
Informatics East (I2), Room 130
Selma Sabanovic, Stanford University, will present, "Designing everyday robots: a social science perspective on robotics.”
Abstract:
Social robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI) envision new roles for robots as social entities—companions, care-takers, guides and receptionists, and mediators for the increasingly complex technological environments we live in. The development of social robots presents a combination of scientific, technical, and social challenges. I approach robot design from the perspective of a social scientist and “critical practitioner” by participating in robotics research and, especially, analyzing the resulting interdisciplinary collaborations. In my talk, I map out different modes of critical engagement of social scientists in robot design: 1) creating evaluation methods for existing robots that challenge and expand on design assumptions; 2) developing an iterative “outside-in design” process that begins with a keen appreciation for observation and reliance on existing empirical research for understanding the nuances of human interaction applied to robots, and 3) using human-robot interaction studies to validate models of social cognition. I describe results from studies I performed using various robotics platforms, including the seal robot Paro, GRACE (Graduate Robot Attending a ConferencE), the Roboceptionist, Keepon, and a robotic shadow puppeteer we developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My work has implications for the analysis of the social, cultural and disciplinary assumptions informing the design of socially interactive technologies and the development of socially responsive and responsible social robot designs. It also contributes to the study of how the boundaries between the social, natural, and applied science are challenged, traversed, and redefined.
Monday, April 6
2:00 p.m.
Informatics East (I2), Room 130
Selma Sabanovic, Stanford University, will present, "Designing everyday robots: a social science perspective on robotics.”
Abstract:
Social robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI) envision new roles for robots as social entities—companions, care-takers, guides and receptionists, and mediators for the increasingly complex technological environments we live in. The development of social robots presents a combination of scientific, technical, and social challenges. I approach robot design from the perspective of a social scientist and “critical practitioner” by participating in robotics research and, especially, analyzing the resulting interdisciplinary collaborations. In my talk, I map out different modes of critical engagement of social scientists in robot design: 1) creating evaluation methods for existing robots that challenge and expand on design assumptions; 2) developing an iterative “outside-in design” process that begins with a keen appreciation for observation and reliance on existing empirical research for understanding the nuances of human interaction applied to robots, and 3) using human-robot interaction studies to validate models of social cognition. I describe results from studies I performed using various robotics platforms, including the seal robot Paro, GRACE (Graduate Robot Attending a ConferencE), the Roboceptionist, Keepon, and a robotic shadow puppeteer we developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My work has implications for the analysis of the social, cultural and disciplinary assumptions informing the design of socially interactive technologies and the development of socially responsive and responsible social robot designs. It also contributes to the study of how the boundaries between the social, natural, and applied science are challenged, traversed, and redefined.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Roundtable: Colin Allen
The Poynter Center is hosting a new series that aims to highlight creative work and research by IU Bloomington faculty in ethics and democratic life and culture.
We cordially invite you to join us for the Spring 2009 Poynter Center Roundtable featuring Colin Allen. Colin Allen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Cognitive Science Program, will speak on his book Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Poynter Center
618 East Third Street (corner of Third and Indiana)
Hosted by:
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-0261
We cordially invite you to join us for the Spring 2009 Poynter Center Roundtable featuring Colin Allen. Colin Allen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Cognitive Science Program, will speak on his book Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Poynter Center
618 East Third Street (corner of Third and Indiana)
Hosted by:
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-0261
Career Events This Week
Check the IU Career Development Center web site for information on the following events:
* RESUME SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* NAVY OFFICER TRAINING INFORMATION SESSION
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* INTERVIEWING 101
* NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) INFORMATION SESSION
* RESUME WRITING 101
* HIRE BIG 10 PLUS CAREER FAIR
* UPWARD BOUND INFORMATION SESSIONS (2 SESSIONS)
* U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INFORMATION SESSIONS (2 SESSIONS)
* DIVERSIFY YOUR OPTIONS: NETWORKING EVENT
* I’M GRADUATING…NOW WHAT?
* SUMMER JOBS FAIR
* WEST EUROPEAN CAREER NIGHT
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* IU BLOOMINGTON SPRING CAREER FAIR
* MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY? - A PRACTICAL HOW-TO INFORMATION SESSION
For more information, please visit www.iucareers.com
Beth Kreitl, MS, NCC
Associate Director, Student Services
Career Development CenterArts & Sciences Career Services
Indiana University Bloomington
(812) 855-9888
* RESUME SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* NAVY OFFICER TRAINING INFORMATION SESSION
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* INTERVIEWING 101
* NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) INFORMATION SESSION
* RESUME WRITING 101
* HIRE BIG 10 PLUS CAREER FAIR
* UPWARD BOUND INFORMATION SESSIONS (2 SESSIONS)
* U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INFORMATION SESSIONS (2 SESSIONS)
* DIVERSIFY YOUR OPTIONS: NETWORKING EVENT
* I’M GRADUATING…NOW WHAT?
* SUMMER JOBS FAIR
* WEST EUROPEAN CAREER NIGHT
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* IU BLOOMINGTON SPRING CAREER FAIR
* MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY? - A PRACTICAL HOW-TO INFORMATION SESSION
For more information, please visit www.iucareers.com
Beth Kreitl, MS, NCC
Associate Director, Student Services
Career Development CenterArts & Sciences Career Services
Indiana University Bloomington
(812) 855-9888
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Lecture: Arthur F. Kramer
We invite you to attend the Horizons of Knowledge Lecture sponsored by the Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD Organization, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Science Program, School of HPER, Speech Research Laboratory, and Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory.
Date: April 6, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Woodburn Hall, Room 120
Dr. Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology: Human Perception and Performance, will present, "Enhancing Cognitive & Brain Function of Older Adults."
Abstract:
The presentation will provide a brief but critical review of the literature on the relationship of cognitive training, intellectual engagement, and fitness training on cognition and brain function of older adults. In the presentation I will contrast the effects of cognitive and fitness training with regard to the breadth of their effects on cognition and dementia. The presentation will include a description of the results of a recent meta-analysis, which included longitudinal fitness studies conducted over the past thirty-five years that were conducted to examine the methodological and theoretical factors that influence the fitness-cognition relationship. This analysis revealed robust benefits of fitness training on neurocognitive function. I will also describe the results of recent and on-going cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in which we are examining changes in cognition and brain function, as indexed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related brain potentials, with fitness and cognitive training interventions. I will conclude by describing issues for future research and potential applications of what we have already learned, as well as what we still need to learn.
Date: April 6, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Woodburn Hall, Room 120
Dr. Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology: Human Perception and Performance, will present, "Enhancing Cognitive & Brain Function of Older Adults."
Abstract:
The presentation will provide a brief but critical review of the literature on the relationship of cognitive training, intellectual engagement, and fitness training on cognition and brain function of older adults. In the presentation I will contrast the effects of cognitive and fitness training with regard to the breadth of their effects on cognition and dementia. The presentation will include a description of the results of a recent meta-analysis, which included longitudinal fitness studies conducted over the past thirty-five years that were conducted to examine the methodological and theoretical factors that influence the fitness-cognition relationship. This analysis revealed robust benefits of fitness training on neurocognitive function. I will also describe the results of recent and on-going cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in which we are examining changes in cognition and brain function, as indexed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related brain potentials, with fitness and cognitive training interventions. I will conclude by describing issues for future research and potential applications of what we have already learned, as well as what we still need to learn.
Cognitive Lunch Abstract for April 1
The next Cognitive Lunch will be held Wednesday, Wednesday, April 1.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"An introduction to Bayesian data analysis" will be presented by John K. Kruschke, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Bayesian methods have garnered huge interest in cognitive science as an approach to models of cognition and perception. On the other hand, Bayesian methods for data analysis have not yet made much headway in cognitive science against the institutionalized inertia of 20th century null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). Ironically, specific Bayesian models of cognition and perception may not long endure the ravages of empirical verification, but generic Bayesian methods for data analysis should eventually dominate. It is time that Bayesian data analysis became the norm for empirical methods in cognitive science. This talk reviews a fatal flaw of NHST and introduces the audience to some benefits of Bayesian data analysis. The talk presents illustrative examples of multiple comparisons in Bayesian ANOVA and Bayesian approaches to statistical power.
Bayesian statistics celebrated on FM radio! Listen to WFIU (103.7 FM) on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at any of these times: 5:59 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 2:29 p.m., 6:58 p.m., 9:58 p.m., or 11:57 p.m.
Priorities all messed up so you can't attend the talk? Want a preview or postview? See
http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/articles/KruschkeBayesianDataAnalysisDraft.pdf
You saw the movie, now read the book:
Course in Bayesian data analysis: PSY-P 533, Class Number 10164. Fall 2009: Tu, Th, 2:30-3:45 p.m., PY 115. Info at http://www.indiana.edu/~jkkteach/P533/
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"An introduction to Bayesian data analysis" will be presented by John K. Kruschke, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Bayesian methods have garnered huge interest in cognitive science as an approach to models of cognition and perception. On the other hand, Bayesian methods for data analysis have not yet made much headway in cognitive science against the institutionalized inertia of 20th century null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). Ironically, specific Bayesian models of cognition and perception may not long endure the ravages of empirical verification, but generic Bayesian methods for data analysis should eventually dominate. It is time that Bayesian data analysis became the norm for empirical methods in cognitive science. This talk reviews a fatal flaw of NHST and introduces the audience to some benefits of Bayesian data analysis. The talk presents illustrative examples of multiple comparisons in Bayesian ANOVA and Bayesian approaches to statistical power.
Bayesian statistics celebrated on FM radio! Listen to WFIU (103.7 FM) on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at any of these times: 5:59 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 2:29 p.m., 6:58 p.m., 9:58 p.m., or 11:57 p.m.
Priorities all messed up so you can't attend the talk? Want a preview or postview? See
http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/articles/KruschkeBayesianDataAnalysisDraft.pdf
You saw the movie, now read the book:
Course in Bayesian data analysis: PSY-P 533, Class Number 10164. Fall 2009: Tu, Th, 2:30-3:45 p.m., PY 115. Info at http://www.indiana.edu/~jkkteach/P533/
Colloquium: Mel Goodale
You are invited to join us for the following CogSci Colloquium.
March 30, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
PY 101
Mel Goodale, Centre for Brain and Mind, University of Western Ontario, will present, "Acting without thinking: When do visually-guided actions escape conscious control?"
Abstract:
Human beings are capable of reaching out and grasping objects with great accuracy and precision – and vision plays a critical role in the control of this ability. The visual guidance of these skilled movements, however, requires transformations of incoming visual information that are quite different from those required for visual perception. For us to grasp an object successfully, our brain must compute the actual (absolute) size of the goal object, and its orientation and position with respect to our hand and fingers – and must ignore the relative size or distance of the object with respect to other elements in the visual array. These differences in the required computations have led to the emergence of dedicated visuomotor modules in the dorsal visual stream that are quite separate from the networks in the ventral visual stream that mediate our conscious perception of the world. Although the identification and selection of goal objects and an appropriate course of action depends on the perceptual machinery of the ventral stream and associated cognitive modules in the temporal and frontal lobes, the execution of the subsequent goal-directed action is mediated by dedicated on-line control systems in the dorsal stream and associated motor areas. But even though the dorsal stream may allow an observer to reach out and grasp objects with exquisite ease, it is trapped in the present. By itself, the dorsal stream can deal only with objects that are visible when the action is being programmed. The ventral stream, however, allows an observer to escape the present and bring to bear information from the past – including information about the function of objects, their intrinsic properties, and their location with reference to other objects in the world. Ultimately then, both streams contribute to the production of goal-directed actions.
References:
Goodale, M.A. & Milner, A.D. (2004). Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Milner, A.D. & Goodale, M.A. (2006). The Visual Brain in Action. 2nd Edition Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Milner, A.D. & Goodale, M.A. (2008). Two visual systems re-viewed. Neuropsychologia. 46:774-785.
Goodale, M.A. (in press). Action without perception in human vision. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
March 30, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
PY 101
Mel Goodale, Centre for Brain and Mind, University of Western Ontario, will present, "Acting without thinking: When do visually-guided actions escape conscious control?"
Abstract:
Human beings are capable of reaching out and grasping objects with great accuracy and precision – and vision plays a critical role in the control of this ability. The visual guidance of these skilled movements, however, requires transformations of incoming visual information that are quite different from those required for visual perception. For us to grasp an object successfully, our brain must compute the actual (absolute) size of the goal object, and its orientation and position with respect to our hand and fingers – and must ignore the relative size or distance of the object with respect to other elements in the visual array. These differences in the required computations have led to the emergence of dedicated visuomotor modules in the dorsal visual stream that are quite separate from the networks in the ventral visual stream that mediate our conscious perception of the world. Although the identification and selection of goal objects and an appropriate course of action depends on the perceptual machinery of the ventral stream and associated cognitive modules in the temporal and frontal lobes, the execution of the subsequent goal-directed action is mediated by dedicated on-line control systems in the dorsal stream and associated motor areas. But even though the dorsal stream may allow an observer to reach out and grasp objects with exquisite ease, it is trapped in the present. By itself, the dorsal stream can deal only with objects that are visible when the action is being programmed. The ventral stream, however, allows an observer to escape the present and bring to bear information from the past – including information about the function of objects, their intrinsic properties, and their location with reference to other objects in the world. Ultimately then, both streams contribute to the production of goal-directed actions.
References:
Goodale, M.A. & Milner, A.D. (2004). Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Milner, A.D. & Goodale, M.A. (2006). The Visual Brain in Action. 2nd Edition Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Milner, A.D. & Goodale, M.A. (2008). Two visual systems re-viewed. Neuropsychologia. 46:774-785.
Goodale, M.A. (in press). Action without perception in human vision. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Women in Computer Science Undergraduate Panel
Undergraduate female students are cordially invited to attend the Women in Computer Science - Undergraduate Lunch and Panel.
Friday, April 3
1:00 p.m.
Lindley Hall 101
This will be an informal event where Junior and Senior women in Computer Science can answer questions and give advice about a variety of topics: What CS is about, internships, jobs, classes to take, grad school, and how to succeed in the CS program.
The panel will be closed door, and only undergrads will be in the room, so no question is off-limits and all answers can be completely honest -- the real deal about being in CS at IU.
This panel is not just for CS majors and minors; it is open to any woman who is interested in the CS program.
For more information or to RSVP, please visit:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cHY2b0tybUpWcGR2ZjhHUnNLMkNBY0E6MA
Friday, April 3
1:00 p.m.
Lindley Hall 101
This will be an informal event where Junior and Senior women in Computer Science can answer questions and give advice about a variety of topics: What CS is about, internships, jobs, classes to take, grad school, and how to succeed in the CS program.
The panel will be closed door, and only undergrads will be in the room, so no question is off-limits and all answers can be completely honest -- the real deal about being in CS at IU.
This panel is not just for CS majors and minors; it is open to any woman who is interested in the CS program.
For more information or to RSVP, please visit:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cHY2b0tybUpWcGR2ZjhHUnNLMkNBY0E6MA
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Student Academic Center Workshops
The Student Academic Center will offer the following free workshops over the next two weeks.
Workshops are open to all students, and you do not need to sign up in advance to attend. However you are advised to arrive early to get seating. Questions may be directed to Sharon Chertkoff, Outreach Coordinator, Student Academic Center, 855-7313.
Monday, 3/30/09, How to Succeed in Accounting A100, 7:00-8:00 pm, Briscoe Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 3/31/09, Motivating Yourself to Achieve Success!, 7:00-8:00 pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 4/1/09, Motivating Yourself to Achieve Success!, 7:00-8:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 231
Monday, 4/6/09, Regrouping After Midterms: Multiplying Your Time, 7:00-8:00 pm, Forest Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 4/7/09, Matching Your Learning Preferences to Academic Course Demands, 7:00-8:00 pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 4/8/09, Matching Your Learning Preferences to Academic Course Demands, 7:00-8:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 231
Workshops are open to all students, and you do not need to sign up in advance to attend. However you are advised to arrive early to get seating. Questions may be directed to Sharon Chertkoff, Outreach Coordinator, Student Academic Center, 855-7313.
Monday, 3/30/09, How to Succeed in Accounting A100, 7:00-8:00 pm, Briscoe Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 3/31/09, Motivating Yourself to Achieve Success!, 7:00-8:00 pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 4/1/09, Motivating Yourself to Achieve Success!, 7:00-8:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 231
Monday, 4/6/09, Regrouping After Midterms: Multiplying Your Time, 7:00-8:00 pm, Forest Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 4/7/09, Matching Your Learning Preferences to Academic Course Demands, 7:00-8:00 pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 4/8/09, Matching Your Learning Preferences to Academic Course Demands, 7:00-8:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 231
Career Events This Week
Check the IU Career Development Center web site for information on the following events:
* RESUME SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* FEATURED JOB AND INTERNSHIP POSTINGS
* NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (NOLS) INFORMATION SESSION
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* INTERVIEWING 101
* NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) INFORMATION SESSION
* RESUME WRITING 101
* HIRE BIG 10 PLUS CAREER FAIR
For more information, please visit www.iucareers.com
Beth Kreitl, MS, NCC
Associate Director, Student Services
Career Development CenterArts & Sciences Career Services
Indiana University Bloomington
812.855.9888 (p)812.855.2121 (f)
kbethany@indiana.edu www.iucareers.com
* RESUME SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* FEATURED JOB AND INTERNSHIP POSTINGS
* NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL (NOLS) INFORMATION SESSION
* CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) INFORMATION SESSION
* INTERVIEWING 101
* NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) INFORMATION SESSION
* RESUME WRITING 101
* HIRE BIG 10 PLUS CAREER FAIR
For more information, please visit www.iucareers.com
Beth Kreitl, MS, NCC
Associate Director, Student Services
Career Development CenterArts & Sciences Career Services
Indiana University Bloomington
812.855.9888 (p)812.855.2121 (f)
kbethany@indiana.edu www.iucareers.com
Student Perspectives on Accessibility
Please join us for "Student Perspectives on Accessibility" presented by a panel of IU students.
Wednesday, March 25
Noon - 1:00 pm
IU Memorial Union Oak Room
How do IU students with disabilities feel about campus accessibility? Is the physical campus easy to navigate? Are academic accommodations easy and appropriate? Is social life accommodating and welcoming?
This panel presentation will feature several IU students in a moderated discussion sharing their experiences living successfully with disabilities. The panel will be composed of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of majors and disabilities. Panelists will touch on themes of academics and social life, awareness and stigma, attitude and etiquette, and with the audience, will explore the true meaning of accessibility.
Accessible University is a monthly series of presentations sponsored by the IUB Disability Roundtable. The purpose of the series is to educate the university community about accessibility issues and methodologies to create a more accessible university environment fully inclusive of students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities.
The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).
Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, other auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Alice Voigt at the National Center on Accessibility, ajvoigt@indiana.edu, (812) 855-1091 (voice), or (812) 856-4421 (tty).
Co-Chairs:
Alice Voigt: ajvoigt@indiana.edu
National Center on Accessibility
856-4427
Vicki Pappas: pappas@indiana.edu
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
855-6508
Wednesday, March 25
Noon - 1:00 pm
IU Memorial Union Oak Room
How do IU students with disabilities feel about campus accessibility? Is the physical campus easy to navigate? Are academic accommodations easy and appropriate? Is social life accommodating and welcoming?
This panel presentation will feature several IU students in a moderated discussion sharing their experiences living successfully with disabilities. The panel will be composed of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of majors and disabilities. Panelists will touch on themes of academics and social life, awareness and stigma, attitude and etiquette, and with the audience, will explore the true meaning of accessibility.
Accessible University is a monthly series of presentations sponsored by the IUB Disability Roundtable. The purpose of the series is to educate the university community about accessibility issues and methodologies to create a more accessible university environment fully inclusive of students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities.
The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).
Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, other auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Alice Voigt at the National Center on Accessibility, ajvoigt@indiana.edu, (812) 855-1091 (voice), or (812) 856-4421 (tty).
Co-Chairs:
Alice Voigt: ajvoigt@indiana.edu
National Center on Accessibility
856-4427
Vicki Pappas: pappas@indiana.edu
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
855-6508
Friday, March 20, 2009
Lecture: Micah Linnemeier & the NWB Team
Networks and Complex Systems Talk
March 23
6:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
"Network Workbench: Current and future development at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center" will be presented by Micah Linnemeier & the NWB Team, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Abstract:
The presentation will discuss the various projects of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, demonstrating recent developments in the Network Workbench tool, as well as describing some of our future work: the EpiC and SciPolicy cyberinfrastructure projects. Network Workbench helps network scientists process, analyze, and visualize network data. It is highly-extensible, allowing users to contribute their own algorithms to the tool, which are able to interact seemlessly with existing Network Workbench functionality. This flexibility is made possible by the CIShell cyberinfrastructure framework, which is the foundation of our upcoming cyberinfrastructure tools as well. New functionality in Network Workbench includes a collection of algorithms for handling weighted networks, and support for scientometrics analysis and processing. The upcoming EpiC (short for Epidemics Cyberinfrastructure) project aims to create a tool to aid in the modeling, analysis, and visualization of epidemics data. The EpiC project is also developing a community website to facilitate the sharing of datasets in the epidemics community. SciPolicy will expand the scientometrics functionality in Network Workbench into a separate full-fledged tool, making it easy for science policy makers to visualize and understand large sets of scientometrics data.
The Spring 2009 schedule for the Network and Complex Systems talk series is available at http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-spring09/
March 23
6:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
"Network Workbench: Current and future development at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center" will be presented by Micah Linnemeier & the NWB Team, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Abstract:
The presentation will discuss the various projects of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, demonstrating recent developments in the Network Workbench tool, as well as describing some of our future work: the EpiC and SciPolicy cyberinfrastructure projects. Network Workbench helps network scientists process, analyze, and visualize network data. It is highly-extensible, allowing users to contribute their own algorithms to the tool, which are able to interact seemlessly with existing Network Workbench functionality. This flexibility is made possible by the CIShell cyberinfrastructure framework, which is the foundation of our upcoming cyberinfrastructure tools as well. New functionality in Network Workbench includes a collection of algorithms for handling weighted networks, and support for scientometrics analysis and processing. The upcoming EpiC (short for Epidemics Cyberinfrastructure) project aims to create a tool to aid in the modeling, analysis, and visualization of epidemics data. The EpiC project is also developing a community website to facilitate the sharing of datasets in the epidemics community. SciPolicy will expand the scientometrics functionality in Network Workbench into a separate full-fledged tool, making it easy for science policy makers to visualize and understand large sets of scientometrics data.
The Spring 2009 schedule for the Network and Complex Systems talk series is available at http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-spring09/
Colloquium: Tatsuya Kameda
We announce the following Cognitive Science Colloquium visit.
Monday, March 23, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
PY 101
Tatsuya Kameda, Stanford University, will present, "Groups as Adaptive Devices: Free-Rider Problems, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Evolutionary Games."
Abstract:
The behavioral ecology literature has shown that adaptive benefits accrued from group life include the reduction of predation risk, increased efficiency in the acquisition of food and other vital resources, opportunities for social learning, etc. These findings suggest that, despite inherent conflicts of interest among members, groups consequentially serve as adaptive devices for individual survival in natural environments. Although psychological research on small groups has addressed conceptually parallel issues including the efficiency of group performance, the linkage to behavioral ecology has never been explicit. This talk explores the applicability of behavioral ecological theory in the study of human group behavior.
Monday, March 23, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
PY 101
Tatsuya Kameda, Stanford University, will present, "Groups as Adaptive Devices: Free-Rider Problems, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Evolutionary Games."
Abstract:
The behavioral ecology literature has shown that adaptive benefits accrued from group life include the reduction of predation risk, increased efficiency in the acquisition of food and other vital resources, opportunities for social learning, etc. These findings suggest that, despite inherent conflicts of interest among members, groups consequentially serve as adaptive devices for individual survival in natural environments. Although psychological research on small groups has addressed conceptually parallel issues including the efficiency of group performance, the linkage to behavioral ecology has never been explicit. This talk explores the applicability of behavioral ecological theory in the study of human group behavior.
Career Development Center Blog
Did you know that the IU Career Development Center has a staff blog on career-related issues? Recent topics include:
The economy and your job search
The green collar economy
Choosing and changing majors
There is no substitute for experience
Getting the most out of your summer experiences
Check it out at http://www.indiana.edu/~career/about/staff/blogs.php?id=30
The economy and your job search
The green collar economy
Choosing and changing majors
There is no substitute for experience
Getting the most out of your summer experiences
Check it out at http://www.indiana.edu/~career/about/staff/blogs.php?id=30
Cognitive Lunch Abstract for March 25
The next Cognitive Lunch will be held Wednesday, March 25.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mental Causation and Love the Hippocampus: A Neo-Dretskean Account of Reasons as Causes" will be presented by Cameron Buckner, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Intentional explanations—explanations which account for behaviors in terms of mental states with semantic contents, like beliefs and desires—are frequently deployed in psychology and cognitive ethology. Computationalism purports to legitimize these explanatory appeals to semantic content by suggesting that minds are syntactic, information-processing engines. Minds are therefore declared to be possible in a physical world because mental states have formal, nonsemantic properties which correspond to their semantic properties, and thus mental states can be manipulated to produce behavior using rules sensitive only to their syntax. A straightforward problem with this approach to intentional explanation, however, is that semantic properties themselves are apparently not causally relevant to the explanation of behavior, with syntax doing all the real causal work.
In the 1980s, an alternative approach to intentional explanation emerged called teleosemantics. Teleosemanticists held that semantic properties are causally relevant to the explanation of behavior in their own right, because the semantic properties of mental states caused them to be selected for positions of behavioral control in the organism’s history (either through evolution or learning). By the mid-to-late 1990s, popular opinion in philosophy of mind held that the approach had run into serious problems, and work in this area began to wane. In this talk, I will argue that there is life left in the teleosemantic program yet, especially given that proponents of the view never adequately made touch with the relevant psychology and neuroscience (which has progressed in leaps and bounds since the position was first developed). By drawing upon current cognitive neuroscience of the hippocampus, I will argue that if much of this work is right in its broad strokes, then many of the most common objections to teleosemantics can be rebutted with straightforward appeals to widely-available empirical findings. My hope is that the resulting view will provide a fully naturalizable theory of content which is of real use to the cognitive sciences.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mental Causation and Love the Hippocampus: A Neo-Dretskean Account of Reasons as Causes" will be presented by Cameron Buckner, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Intentional explanations—explanations which account for behaviors in terms of mental states with semantic contents, like beliefs and desires—are frequently deployed in psychology and cognitive ethology. Computationalism purports to legitimize these explanatory appeals to semantic content by suggesting that minds are syntactic, information-processing engines. Minds are therefore declared to be possible in a physical world because mental states have formal, nonsemantic properties which correspond to their semantic properties, and thus mental states can be manipulated to produce behavior using rules sensitive only to their syntax. A straightforward problem with this approach to intentional explanation, however, is that semantic properties themselves are apparently not causally relevant to the explanation of behavior, with syntax doing all the real causal work.
In the 1980s, an alternative approach to intentional explanation emerged called teleosemantics. Teleosemanticists held that semantic properties are causally relevant to the explanation of behavior in their own right, because the semantic properties of mental states caused them to be selected for positions of behavioral control in the organism’s history (either through evolution or learning). By the mid-to-late 1990s, popular opinion in philosophy of mind held that the approach had run into serious problems, and work in this area began to wane. In this talk, I will argue that there is life left in the teleosemantic program yet, especially given that proponents of the view never adequately made touch with the relevant psychology and neuroscience (which has progressed in leaps and bounds since the position was first developed). By drawing upon current cognitive neuroscience of the hippocampus, I will argue that if much of this work is right in its broad strokes, then many of the most common objections to teleosemantics can be rebutted with straightforward appeals to widely-available empirical findings. My hope is that the resulting view will provide a fully naturalizable theory of content which is of real use to the cognitive sciences.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
16th International Summer School in Cognitive Science
Announcing the 16th International Summer School in Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, July 6-23, 2009
Application deadline: April 1, 2009
Courses:
* Michael Spivey (Cornell University, USA) – Embodied Cognition
* Rob Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) Collective Behavior
* Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) – Comparative Approaches to Cognition: Knowing Other Animal Minds
* Edward Necka (Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland) – Individual Differences in Cognitive Processes
* Randall C. O'Reilly (University of Colorado, USA) Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
* Adele Diamond (University of British Columbia, Canada) – Prefrontal cortex executive functions: Genetic and environmental influences and clinical implications.
* Tom Ward (University of Alabama, USA) – Creative Cognition in Real and Virtual Worlds
* Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) – Analogy and Cognition
Participant Symposium:
In addition to the courses, the participants can present their own doctoral projects and or results from their research. Submit a two-page abstract by April 30.
2nd Analogy Conference:
Participants in the Summer School will have the unique chance to participate in the 2nd Analogy Conference without further costs. All main researchers in the field will be presenting at that conference.
Organized by the New Bulgarian University
Endorsed and Sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society and the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).
Application deadline: April 1, 2009
Scholarship available, kindly provided by the Cognitive Science Society
For more information, please contact:
New Bulgarian University
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
E-mail: school@cogs.nbu.bg
Web page: http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2009.html
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, July 6-23, 2009
Application deadline: April 1, 2009
Courses:
* Michael Spivey (Cornell University, USA) – Embodied Cognition
* Rob Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) Collective Behavior
* Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) – Comparative Approaches to Cognition: Knowing Other Animal Minds
* Edward Necka (Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland) – Individual Differences in Cognitive Processes
* Randall C. O'Reilly (University of Colorado, USA) Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
* Adele Diamond (University of British Columbia, Canada) – Prefrontal cortex executive functions: Genetic and environmental influences and clinical implications.
* Tom Ward (University of Alabama, USA) – Creative Cognition in Real and Virtual Worlds
* Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) – Analogy and Cognition
Participant Symposium:
In addition to the courses, the participants can present their own doctoral projects and or results from their research. Submit a two-page abstract by April 30.
2nd Analogy Conference:
Participants in the Summer School will have the unique chance to participate in the 2nd Analogy Conference without further costs. All main researchers in the field will be presenting at that conference.
Organized by the New Bulgarian University
Endorsed and Sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society and the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).
Application deadline: April 1, 2009
Scholarship available, kindly provided by the Cognitive Science Society
For more information, please contact:
New Bulgarian University
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
E-mail: school@cogs.nbu.bg
Web page: http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2009.html
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Life Skills Series
We proudly announce the following free workshop series on Life Skills from the IU Health Center Counseling and Psychological Services.
March 26 & April 16
Conquer Procrastination
1:00-2:00 p.m.
If you do things at the last minute, you are not doing your best work. Learn how “A” and “F” students manage time and resources. Identify habits and learn strategies to conquer procrastination.
April 2 & April 23
Improve Your Relationships
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Close, healthy relationships can provide support and enjoyment. Learn about ways to build new relationships and improve current relationships.
April 9 & April 30
Nurture Yourself
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Why is it so hard to focus on self-care? Explore how to initiate self-care for your body, mind and mood. Address (external and internal) barriers to self-care.
The 3-session Life Skills Series begins in March and repeats in April. You may attend one or more of these programs. Just stop by Thursdays 1:00-2:00 p.m.
IU Health Center Counseling and Psychological Services
4th floor, 600 N. Jordan Avenue
(812) 855-5711
healthcenter.indiana.edu/caps.html
Division of Student Affairs
March 26 & April 16
Conquer Procrastination
1:00-2:00 p.m.
If you do things at the last minute, you are not doing your best work. Learn how “A” and “F” students manage time and resources. Identify habits and learn strategies to conquer procrastination.
April 2 & April 23
Improve Your Relationships
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Close, healthy relationships can provide support and enjoyment. Learn about ways to build new relationships and improve current relationships.
April 9 & April 30
Nurture Yourself
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Why is it so hard to focus on self-care? Explore how to initiate self-care for your body, mind and mood. Address (external and internal) barriers to self-care.
The 3-session Life Skills Series begins in March and repeats in April. You may attend one or more of these programs. Just stop by Thursdays 1:00-2:00 p.m.
IU Health Center Counseling and Psychological Services
4th floor, 600 N. Jordan Avenue
(812) 855-5711
healthcenter.indiana.edu/caps.html
Division of Student Affairs
Holland Award: Nominations Sought
Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students in the College of Arts and Sciences
We encourage all undergraduate students in the College to nominate a faculty member for the James Philip Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The award honors College of Arts and Sciences faculty "who excel at teaching and have a demonstrated history of service to students." This award is funded by a gift in honor of Professor James Philip Holland, an exceptional educator who gave many years of exemplary service to the students of Indiana University and who earned numerous university-wide teaching awards.
To nominate a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member (AIs are not eligible) for this prestigious award, undergraduate students in the College must send a substantive statement, not to exceed 400 words, detailing the reasons why their professor deserves this award. Please note: only College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate students – not students in other IUB schools and not alumni or graduate students – may nominate College faculty members for this award. The nomination needs to be addressed to Dean Jean Robinson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, and sent by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009, via email to asug@indiana.edu (Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Education). Students should describe their professor’s outstanding qualities, with whatever supporting information they wish to provide.
Jean Robinson
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
College of Arts and Sciences
104 Kirkwood Hall
Indiana University
(812) 855-1646
asug@indiana.edu
We encourage all undergraduate students in the College to nominate a faculty member for the James Philip Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The award honors College of Arts and Sciences faculty "who excel at teaching and have a demonstrated history of service to students." This award is funded by a gift in honor of Professor James Philip Holland, an exceptional educator who gave many years of exemplary service to the students of Indiana University and who earned numerous university-wide teaching awards.
To nominate a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member (AIs are not eligible) for this prestigious award, undergraduate students in the College must send a substantive statement, not to exceed 400 words, detailing the reasons why their professor deserves this award. Please note: only College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate students – not students in other IUB schools and not alumni or graduate students – may nominate College faculty members for this award. The nomination needs to be addressed to Dean Jean Robinson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, and sent by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009, via email to asug@indiana.edu (Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Education). Students should describe their professor’s outstanding qualities, with whatever supporting information they wish to provide.
Jean Robinson
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
College of Arts and Sciences
104 Kirkwood Hall
Indiana University
(812) 855-1646
asug@indiana.edu
Sunday, March 15, 2009
"The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" by Jennifer 8 Lee
Over a Cup of Tea presents "How Chinese Food is all-American" by Jenny 8 Lee, New York Times Reporter and Author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles." The event is sponsored by the IU Asian Culture Center in partnership with the School of Journalism.
Date: Thursday, April 2
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: IU School of Journalism Auditorium
Did you know that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's combined? Jennifer 8 Lee's NY Times best selling book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," is for anyone who has ever wondered who General Tso is and why we eat his chicken; why Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas; and who really invented the fortune cookie. Jennifer 8. Lee, solves enduring mysteries of Chinese cuisine through a mix of in-depth research and entertaining personal anecdotes to take you on a fantastic journey around the world.
Paperback copies will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow after her talk. More information can be found at http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/.
For more information, please contact acc@indiana.edu.
Date: Thursday, April 2
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: IU School of Journalism Auditorium
Did you know that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's combined? Jennifer 8 Lee's NY Times best selling book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," is for anyone who has ever wondered who General Tso is and why we eat his chicken; why Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas; and who really invented the fortune cookie. Jennifer 8. Lee, solves enduring mysteries of Chinese cuisine through a mix of in-depth research and entertaining personal anecdotes to take you on a fantastic journey around the world.
Paperback copies will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow after her talk. More information can be found at http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/.
For more information, please contact acc@indiana.edu.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Creative Writing Contest
Presenting the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - Annual Creative Writing Contest 2009
"The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities"
The Indiana University Asian Culture Center, with co-sponsorship from the IU Creative Writing Program, Hutton Honors College, Office of Multicultural Initiatives, and The Office of Vice President for International Affairs is proud to announce its annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative Writing Contest.
The contest is open to all IUB undergraduate students.
The broad theme for the contest is, "The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities." We are looking for creative examinations of issues in ethnicity, race, gender, identity, disability, age, class, religion, and diversity in the American experience through three genres in creative writing: short fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. This year's theme is meant not only to have the contestants think about the varied definitions of diversity, but also to examine how these apply or relate to Asian Americans.
The submissions will be evaluated on the creative quality of their expressions as they address this topic. Emphasis will be placed on the literary merit of the pieces in determining the winners.
Prizes for the first, second, and third place winners include: 1st Prize - IPOD Touch (16 GB) plus reading the essay on March 27, 2009; 2nd prize - IPOD Nano; 3rd prize - $100 Gift Card.
All winning entries will be posted in the ACC website. The winners will be announced at the APA Heritage Month Opening Lunch Reception, Friday, March 27, 2009 at 12 noon, Presidents' Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.
Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
You may submit your entries to: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, fax it to 856-5030, or send by e-mail to acc@indiana.edu.
You may submit a short story, a poem, or a creative nonfiction* piece. There will be no separate winners in the three categories. The entries will be judged by a Creative Writing Program faculty member, who will select the top three winners irrespective of the genre. You may submit up to one entry for each category. Each entry should have two title pages as follows: the first should include the title, author's name, permanent address, phone number, email address, and include: "Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative Writing Contest."
The second title page should include the title only. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript except on the first title page. All submissions should use a 12-point size and should be typed or printed on a letter-quality printer. Prose (both creative nonfiction and short fiction) must be double-spaced and should not exceed 1,000 words; poetry must be single-spaced and should not exceed 25 lines.
* Creative nonfiction is defined as writing that employs literary techniques and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on actual persons and events.
Indiana University
Asian Culture Center
807 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 856-5361
www.indiana.edu/~acc
"The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities"
The Indiana University Asian Culture Center, with co-sponsorship from the IU Creative Writing Program, Hutton Honors College, Office of Multicultural Initiatives, and The Office of Vice President for International Affairs is proud to announce its annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative Writing Contest.
The contest is open to all IUB undergraduate students.
The broad theme for the contest is, "The Many Meanings of Diversity: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Opportunities." We are looking for creative examinations of issues in ethnicity, race, gender, identity, disability, age, class, religion, and diversity in the American experience through three genres in creative writing: short fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. This year's theme is meant not only to have the contestants think about the varied definitions of diversity, but also to examine how these apply or relate to Asian Americans.
The submissions will be evaluated on the creative quality of their expressions as they address this topic. Emphasis will be placed on the literary merit of the pieces in determining the winners.
Prizes for the first, second, and third place winners include: 1st Prize - IPOD Touch (16 GB) plus reading the essay on March 27, 2009; 2nd prize - IPOD Nano; 3rd prize - $100 Gift Card.
All winning entries will be posted in the ACC website. The winners will be announced at the APA Heritage Month Opening Lunch Reception, Friday, March 27, 2009 at 12 noon, Presidents' Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union.
Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
You may submit your entries to: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, fax it to 856-5030, or send by e-mail to acc@indiana.edu.
You may submit a short story, a poem, or a creative nonfiction* piece. There will be no separate winners in the three categories. The entries will be judged by a Creative Writing Program faculty member, who will select the top three winners irrespective of the genre. You may submit up to one entry for each category. Each entry should have two title pages as follows: the first should include the title, author's name, permanent address, phone number, email address, and include: "Asian Pacific American Heritage Creative Writing Contest."
The second title page should include the title only. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript except on the first title page. All submissions should use a 12-point size and should be typed or printed on a letter-quality printer. Prose (both creative nonfiction and short fiction) must be double-spaced and should not exceed 1,000 words; poetry must be single-spaced and should not exceed 25 lines.
* Creative nonfiction is defined as writing that employs literary techniques and artistic vision usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on actual persons and events.
Indiana University
Asian Culture Center
807 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 856-5361
www.indiana.edu/~acc
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship
Applications are now being accepted for the Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship. The deadline for applications is March 30, 2009.
On Sunday 4 July 1999, a bright and promising young Korean graduate student was killed as he was entering his church. He was the victim of a random act of extremist violence. Indiana University is united in deploring the hatred and intolerance that caused this senseless tragedy and is committed to the principles and ideals that make this university a place where people from all walks of life and from all nations and religions, can join together in pursuit of knowledge and mutual respect. As a way of underscoring Mr. Yoon’s legacy, Indiana University established this scholarship.
The Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship will provide financial support for IU students who have exemplified tolerance and understanding across racial and religious lines through service, personal commitment, academic achievement and future potential.
Candidates may be graduate students or undergraduates who have completed at least one academic semester of study at Indiana University at the time of application. Candidates may be citizens of any country. Candidates must be full-time students pursuing Indiana University degrees. Candidates may be self-nominated (apply themselves) or be nominated by Indiana University faculty or staff members.
Candidates must submit a statement (not to exceed 750 words) describing what the scholarship will enable them to accomplish in their academic programs. The scholarship should be taken up during summer 2009 or the 2009-2010 academic year. Candidates must submit a resume or curriculum vitae. Three letters of support are required, at least one of which should be from an Indiana University faculty member.
Faculty or staff who nominate candidates, please provide a letter of nomination and at least one additional letter of support. If possible, please also enclose a copy of the student’s resume or curriculum vitae.
The scholarship has a value of approximately $2,500. The application deadline is March 30, 2009.
Completed applications/nominations should be sent to the Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship Committee, Bryan Hall 104, Indiana University, 107 S. Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405.
Please direct questions to Edda Callahan, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Bryan Hall 104, telephone: 812-855-5021; e-mail: egcallah@indiana.edu
On Sunday 4 July 1999, a bright and promising young Korean graduate student was killed as he was entering his church. He was the victim of a random act of extremist violence. Indiana University is united in deploring the hatred and intolerance that caused this senseless tragedy and is committed to the principles and ideals that make this university a place where people from all walks of life and from all nations and religions, can join together in pursuit of knowledge and mutual respect. As a way of underscoring Mr. Yoon’s legacy, Indiana University established this scholarship.
The Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship will provide financial support for IU students who have exemplified tolerance and understanding across racial and religious lines through service, personal commitment, academic achievement and future potential.
Candidates may be graduate students or undergraduates who have completed at least one academic semester of study at Indiana University at the time of application. Candidates may be citizens of any country. Candidates must be full-time students pursuing Indiana University degrees. Candidates may be self-nominated (apply themselves) or be nominated by Indiana University faculty or staff members.
Candidates must submit a statement (not to exceed 750 words) describing what the scholarship will enable them to accomplish in their academic programs. The scholarship should be taken up during summer 2009 or the 2009-2010 academic year. Candidates must submit a resume or curriculum vitae. Three letters of support are required, at least one of which should be from an Indiana University faculty member.
Faculty or staff who nominate candidates, please provide a letter of nomination and at least one additional letter of support. If possible, please also enclose a copy of the student’s resume or curriculum vitae.
The scholarship has a value of approximately $2,500. The application deadline is March 30, 2009.
Completed applications/nominations should be sent to the Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship Committee, Bryan Hall 104, Indiana University, 107 S. Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405.
Please direct questions to Edda Callahan, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Bryan Hall 104, telephone: 812-855-5021; e-mail: egcallah@indiana.edu
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Cognitive Lunch Abstract for March 11
The next Cognitive Lunch will be held Wednesday, March 11.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (room 128)
"Utilizing Social Information During Mate Choice" will be presented by Skyler Place, Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Indiana University.
Abstract:
When searching for a mate, one must gather information to determine the mate value of potential partners. By focusing on individuals that have been previously chosen by others, one’s selection of mates can be influenced by another’s successful search – a phenomenon known as mate copying. We show evidence of mate copying in humans with a novel methodology that closely mimics behavioral studies with non-human animals and goes beyond the use of staged still-picture stimuli in previous human mate copying studies. After viewing instances of real mating interest in video recordings of speed-dates, both male and female participants demonstrate mate copying effects for short-term and long-term relationship interest when they perceived the dates as successful. This first study is followed by a second that illustrates when and how mate copying can be used in conjunction with other mate value cues.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (room 128)
"Utilizing Social Information During Mate Choice" will be presented by Skyler Place, Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Indiana University.
Abstract:
When searching for a mate, one must gather information to determine the mate value of potential partners. By focusing on individuals that have been previously chosen by others, one’s selection of mates can be influenced by another’s successful search – a phenomenon known as mate copying. We show evidence of mate copying in humans with a novel methodology that closely mimics behavioral studies with non-human animals and goes beyond the use of staged still-picture stimuli in previous human mate copying studies. After viewing instances of real mating interest in video recordings of speed-dates, both male and female participants demonstrate mate copying effects for short-term and long-term relationship interest when they perceived the dates as successful. This first study is followed by a second that illustrates when and how mate copying can be used in conjunction with other mate value cues.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Presenting Volume 4 of Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science
Dear Cognitive Science Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to announce that Volume 4 (Winter 2008) of the Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science, a creation of the Indiana University iCogSci project, has been published online. This volume features ten articles from undergraduate students at universities across the country. The submissions are all of superior quality and I could not be more proud of what has been accomplished
this term.
Volume 4 of the journal can be downloaded as a unified PDF file, or you can choose to download PDF copies of individual articles, both available at the following web address:
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/iacs/vol4.html
I hope you find these articles interesting, and will encourage your students to submit their work in the future.
Sincerely,
Brenden Sewell
Executive Editor
Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science
801 Eigenmann Hall
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47406
E-Mail: brrsewel@indiana.edu
Web: http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/icogsci/journal.html
It is my great pleasure to announce that Volume 4 (Winter 2008) of the Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science, a creation of the Indiana University iCogSci project, has been published online. This volume features ten articles from undergraduate students at universities across the country. The submissions are all of superior quality and I could not be more proud of what has been accomplished
this term.
Volume 4 of the journal can be downloaded as a unified PDF file, or you can choose to download PDF copies of individual articles, both available at the following web address:
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/iacs/vol4.html
I hope you find these articles interesting, and will encourage your students to submit their work in the future.
Sincerely,
Brenden Sewell
Executive Editor
Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science
801 Eigenmann Hall
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47406
E-Mail: brrsewel@indiana.edu
Web: http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/icogsci/journal.html
Lecture: Chen Yu
Please join us for the next Networks and Complex Systems Talk.
Monday, March 9
6:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
"Visual Data Mining of Multimedia Data for Social and Behavioral Studies" will be presented by Chen Yu, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Abstract:
With advances in computing techniques, a large amount of high-resolution high-quality multimedia data (video and audio, etc.) has been collected in research laboratories in various scientific disciplines, particularly in cognitive and behavioral studies. How to automatically and effectively discover new knowledge from rich multimedia data poses a compelling challenge since most state-of-the-art data mining techniques can only search and extract pre-defined patterns or knowledge from complex heterogeneous data. In light of this challenge, we propose a hybrid approach that allows scientists to use data mining as a first pass, and then forms a closed loop of visual analysis of current results followed by more data mining work inspired by visualization, the results of which can be in turn visualized and lead to the next round of visual exploration and analysis. In this way, new insights and hypotheses gleaned from the raw data and the current level of analysis can contribute to further analysis. As a first step toward this goal, we implement a visualization system with three critical components: (1) A smooth interface between visualization and data mining; (2) A flexible tool to explore and query temporal data derived from raw multimedia data; and (3) A seamless interface between raw multimedia data and derived data. We have developed various ways to visualize both temporal correlations and statistics of multiple derived variables and as well as conditional and high-order statistics. Our visualization tool allows users to explore, compare, and analyze multi-stream derived variables and simultaneously switch to access raw multimedia data.
Monday, March 9
6:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
"Visual Data Mining of Multimedia Data for Social and Behavioral Studies" will be presented by Chen Yu, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Abstract:
With advances in computing techniques, a large amount of high-resolution high-quality multimedia data (video and audio, etc.) has been collected in research laboratories in various scientific disciplines, particularly in cognitive and behavioral studies. How to automatically and effectively discover new knowledge from rich multimedia data poses a compelling challenge since most state-of-the-art data mining techniques can only search and extract pre-defined patterns or knowledge from complex heterogeneous data. In light of this challenge, we propose a hybrid approach that allows scientists to use data mining as a first pass, and then forms a closed loop of visual analysis of current results followed by more data mining work inspired by visualization, the results of which can be in turn visualized and lead to the next round of visual exploration and analysis. In this way, new insights and hypotheses gleaned from the raw data and the current level of analysis can contribute to further analysis. As a first step toward this goal, we implement a visualization system with three critical components: (1) A smooth interface between visualization and data mining; (2) A flexible tool to explore and query temporal data derived from raw multimedia data; and (3) A seamless interface between raw multimedia data and derived data. We have developed various ways to visualize both temporal correlations and statistics of multiple derived variables and as well as conditional and high-order statistics. Our visualization tool allows users to explore, compare, and analyze multi-stream derived variables and simultaneously switch to access raw multimedia data.
16th Annual IU Animal Behavior Conference
The Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB) is pleased to announce the 16th Annual CISAB Animal Behavior Conference on Friday April 10 at Indiana University. Our plenary speaker for this year’s conference is Dr. Darcy B. Kelley from Columbia University.
As usual, we welcome contributed papers from graduate students with *special* encouragement to undergraduate presenters. Registration and abstract submission ends March 13, 2009.
You may register now for the 16th Annual IU Animal Behavior Conference.
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/symposium/index.html (The deadline is March 13.)
For out of town guests, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Indiana Memorial Union hotel for the nights of Thursday April 9 and Friday April 10 at a rate of $94/night for one bed and $114/night for 2 beds (Group code: ABC-09). Reservations must be made by March 9th. The Union hotel is conveniently located in the same building where the Animal Behavior Conference will take place, and within walking distance of several local shops and restaurants.
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB)
402 N. Park Ave.
Bloomington IN 47405
(812) 855-9663
cisab@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal
As usual, we welcome contributed papers from graduate students with *special* encouragement to undergraduate presenters. Registration and abstract submission ends March 13, 2009.
You may register now for the 16th Annual IU Animal Behavior Conference.
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/symposium/index.html (The deadline is March 13.)
For out of town guests, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Indiana Memorial Union hotel for the nights of Thursday April 9 and Friday April 10 at a rate of $94/night for one bed and $114/night for 2 beds (Group code: ABC-09). Reservations must be made by March 9th. The Union hotel is conveniently located in the same building where the Animal Behavior Conference will take place, and within walking distance of several local shops and restaurants.
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB)
402 N. Park Ave.
Bloomington IN 47405
(812) 855-9663
cisab@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal
Thursday, March 05, 2009
IU Summer Language Workshop
Announcing Indiana University’s 59th Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages.
June 19 - August 14, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
-Priority applications (for funding purposes) due March 20
-Apply through the SWSEEL website
-All students pay in-state tuition
-Over 20 hours of weekly instruction
-Complete 1 full academic year of language study in 8 weeks
-FLAS fellowships and other funding available (see website)
For more information, visit the SWSEEL web site: www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/
or send e-mail to: SWSEEL@indiana.edu
Andrew Burton
Academic Advisor / Assistant Director for Student Services
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 565, Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-3087
angburto@indiana.edu
June 19 - August 14, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
-Priority applications (for funding purposes) due March 20
-Apply through the SWSEEL website
-All students pay in-state tuition
-Over 20 hours of weekly instruction
-Complete 1 full academic year of language study in 8 weeks
-FLAS fellowships and other funding available (see website)
For more information, visit the SWSEEL web site: www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/
or send e-mail to: SWSEEL@indiana.edu
Andrew Burton
Academic Advisor / Assistant Director for Student Services
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 565, Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-3087
angburto@indiana.edu
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Lecture: Geoffrey S. Pitt
The Stark Neuroscience Seminar Series presents...
"Calcium regulation of ion channels" presented by Geoffrey S. Pitt, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurobiology, Director, Ion Channel Research Unit, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Research 2 Building
Room 101
IUPUI Campus
"Calcium regulation of ion channels" presented by Geoffrey S. Pitt, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurobiology, Director, Ion Channel Research Unit, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Research 2 Building
Room 101
IUPUI Campus
Colloquium: Justin Werfel
You are cordially invited to attend this School of Informatics colloquium:
Friday, March 6, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Informatics East (I2), Room 130
Justin Werfel, New England Complex Systems Institute, Harvard Medical School, will present "Designing an Emergent System: Collective Construction with Artificial Swarms."
Abstract:
Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. Such swarm systems have many desirable features, such as considerable parallelism and robustness to component loss. However, designing local agent behaviors to achieve a desired global result is in general a serious challenge. This talk will describe the design and implementation of a system in which autonomous mobile robots collectively build user-specified structures from square building blocks. Robots act without explicit communication or cooperation, instead using the partially completed structure to coordinate their actions. Robust, decentralized algorithms let the system provably and reliably build arbitrary desired structures, using only a high-level design as input.
Friday, March 6, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Informatics East (I2), Room 130
Justin Werfel, New England Complex Systems Institute, Harvard Medical School, will present "Designing an Emergent System: Collective Construction with Artificial Swarms."
Abstract:
Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. Such swarm systems have many desirable features, such as considerable parallelism and robustness to component loss. However, designing local agent behaviors to achieve a desired global result is in general a serious challenge. This talk will describe the design and implementation of a system in which autonomous mobile robots collectively build user-specified structures from square building blocks. Robots act without explicit communication or cooperation, instead using the partially completed structure to coordinate their actions. Robust, decentralized algorithms let the system provably and reliably build arbitrary desired structures, using only a high-level design as input.
Summer Dutch Institute and NISS
Announcing the 2009 Summer Dutch Institute and the National Institute for Scandinavian Studies (NISS).
Looking to fulfill language requirements in a fast and exciting way? Interested in less common Western European languages that can give you an edge on the job market? Have a love for Dutch or Scandinavian art, culture, or history? Then take advantage of one of two great summer opportunities right here at IU through WEST!
The 2009 Summer Dutch Institute (SDI) and National Institute for Scandinavian Studies (NISSS) each offer a full year of language instruction in just 8 weeks’ time. Running from May 18-July 10, courses are offered in introductory and intermediate Dutch, introductory Swedish, and introductory Norwegian. Highly qualified and experienced language professors will teach these languages in a small, personal setting for three hours a day.
Undergraduates earn 8 credit hours for the entire sequence, and graduate students earn 6. Plenty of other field trips, cultural events, and social activities are also included in the 8-week program.
As a new addition this year, week-long Dutch and Nordic culture courses are also being offered immediately prior to the language courses. Come a week early, from May 11-May 15, for this special opportunity! For one credit each, highly acclaimed professor Michelle Facos will teach on Dutch and Nordic Art, and International Studies professor Per Nordhal on migration and integration from Dutch and Nordic perspectives.
Check out the following websites for more information:
SDI: http://www.indiana.edu/~sdi/
NISSS: http://www.indiana.edu/~nisss
Pre-registration has already begun! If interested, please write us at west@indiana.edu to receive a pre-registration form.
Looking to fulfill language requirements in a fast and exciting way? Interested in less common Western European languages that can give you an edge on the job market? Have a love for Dutch or Scandinavian art, culture, or history? Then take advantage of one of two great summer opportunities right here at IU through WEST!
The 2009 Summer Dutch Institute (SDI) and National Institute for Scandinavian Studies (NISSS) each offer a full year of language instruction in just 8 weeks’ time. Running from May 18-July 10, courses are offered in introductory and intermediate Dutch, introductory Swedish, and introductory Norwegian. Highly qualified and experienced language professors will teach these languages in a small, personal setting for three hours a day.
Undergraduates earn 8 credit hours for the entire sequence, and graduate students earn 6. Plenty of other field trips, cultural events, and social activities are also included in the 8-week program.
As a new addition this year, week-long Dutch and Nordic culture courses are also being offered immediately prior to the language courses. Come a week early, from May 11-May 15, for this special opportunity! For one credit each, highly acclaimed professor Michelle Facos will teach on Dutch and Nordic Art, and International Studies professor Per Nordhal on migration and integration from Dutch and Nordic perspectives.
Check out the following websites for more information:
SDI: http://www.indiana.edu/~sdi/
NISSS: http://www.indiana.edu/~nisss
Pre-registration has already begun! If interested, please write us at west@indiana.edu to receive a pre-registration form.
Colloquium: Lisa Goffman
Announcing the following colloquium presented by the SPHS Department, the SPHS PhD Organization, and the Learnability Project.
Monday, March 9
4:00-5:00 p.m., with reception to follow
Speech and Hearing Building, Room C141
Dr. Lisa Goffman, Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will present, "Motor contributions to the acquisition of normal and disordered language."
Abstract:
The acquisition of language relies on perceptual and motor experiences and biases. While perceptual factors have received much attention, motor contributions to the normal and disordered development of language have been less well investigated, even in the face of increasing evidence that children diagnosed with specific language impairment (SLI) show concomitant gross and fine motor deficits. Our research program attempts to bridge this gap by directly measuring articulatory and manual movement output as children and adults engage in various production tasks. The hypothesis is that motor and language capacities interact and that these interactions change over the course of development.
This talk will include two groups of studies. In the first, I will present findings that incorporate methodologies from speech motor control and from psycholinguistics to assess how grammatical, lexical, and phonological processing levels are linked to articulatory output. I will then turn to findings regarding speech and generalized motor deficits that have been identified in children with SLI. All of this work together will be applied to a model of developing speech production in which language and motor units both play critical and interacting roles.
Monday, March 9
4:00-5:00 p.m., with reception to follow
Speech and Hearing Building, Room C141
Dr. Lisa Goffman, Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will present, "Motor contributions to the acquisition of normal and disordered language."
Abstract:
The acquisition of language relies on perceptual and motor experiences and biases. While perceptual factors have received much attention, motor contributions to the normal and disordered development of language have been less well investigated, even in the face of increasing evidence that children diagnosed with specific language impairment (SLI) show concomitant gross and fine motor deficits. Our research program attempts to bridge this gap by directly measuring articulatory and manual movement output as children and adults engage in various production tasks. The hypothesis is that motor and language capacities interact and that these interactions change over the course of development.
This talk will include two groups of studies. In the first, I will present findings that incorporate methodologies from speech motor control and from psycholinguistics to assess how grammatical, lexical, and phonological processing levels are linked to articulatory output. I will then turn to findings regarding speech and generalized motor deficits that have been identified in children with SLI. All of this work together will be applied to a model of developing speech production in which language and motor units both play critical and interacting roles.
Kaplan Practice Tests
On March 7, Kaplan will offer a campus-wide make-up opportunity for students to take a free practice GRE, LSAT, or MCAT, administered under simulated testing conditions at the IU Kelly School of Business.
Kaplan’s Practice Test is an opportunity for prospective business, graduate, law, and medical students to answer a critical question, "If I took the exam today, how would I score?"
Last year, many Kaplan Practice Test participants assessed their test-taking skills while learning valuable strategies to help them ace the real test. Since admission to graduate school is fierce, a high exam score is crucial to the admissions process.
We invite you to participate in the Kaplan Practice Test Event taking place on your campus on March 7.
To register, call 1-800-KAP-TEST or visit us online at www.kaptest.com/practice.
Kaplan’s Practice Test is an opportunity for prospective business, graduate, law, and medical students to answer a critical question, "If I took the exam today, how would I score?"
Last year, many Kaplan Practice Test participants assessed their test-taking skills while learning valuable strategies to help them ace the real test. Since admission to graduate school is fierce, a high exam score is crucial to the admissions process.
We invite you to participate in the Kaplan Practice Test Event taking place on your campus on March 7.
To register, call 1-800-KAP-TEST or visit us online at www.kaptest.com/practice.
ACC Lecture and Concert: Magdalen Hsu Li
IU Asian Culture Center's Over a Cup of Tea presents "Redefinition of Identity," a Lecture and Concert by Magdalen Hsu Li.
Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center in partnership with the Office of Women's Affairs, GLBT Student Services, and the Indiana Memorial Union
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Venue: Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall, 275 N. Jordan Avenue
Description: Magdalen will be conducting a lecture interspersed with songs that will address how we can begin to raise diversity awareness in ourselves and in our community. She will be performing songs from her newest CD "Smashing the Ceiling." Her songs visually portray what she sees with her painter's eyes while addressing universal themes about identity, spirituality, the search for consciousness, love, loss, and relationships.
Reception to follow after Magdalen's program.
For more information, please contact IU Asian Culture Center at 856-5361 or acc@indiana.edu.
Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center in partnership with the Office of Women's Affairs, GLBT Student Services, and the Indiana Memorial Union
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Venue: Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall, 275 N. Jordan Avenue
Description: Magdalen will be conducting a lecture interspersed with songs that will address how we can begin to raise diversity awareness in ourselves and in our community. She will be performing songs from her newest CD "Smashing the Ceiling." Her songs visually portray what she sees with her painter's eyes while addressing universal themes about identity, spirituality, the search for consciousness, love, loss, and relationships.
Reception to follow after Magdalen's program.
For more information, please contact IU Asian Culture Center at 856-5361 or acc@indiana.edu.
Women of Color Leadership Conference
We are proud to announce the second annual Women of Color Leadership Conference sponsored by the Office of Mentoring Services and Leadership Development in collaboration with the Herman Hudson Symposium.
This year’s conference will be held Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Kelley School of Business Graduate Executive Education Center.
The theme this year is “The Progression of Women in the 21st Century: Higher Education, Health, and Politics.”
We have some wonderful speakers lined up for this year's event.
Questions may be directed to:
Patrick D. Smith
Executive Director
Office of Mentoring Services and Leadership Development
Eigenmann Hall South 619
1900 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47406-7511
Ph: (812)855-3540
Fax: (812)856-0445
e-mail: smithpd@indiana.edu
URL: www.indiana.edu/~omsld
This year’s conference will be held Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Kelley School of Business Graduate Executive Education Center.
The theme this year is “The Progression of Women in the 21st Century: Higher Education, Health, and Politics.”
We have some wonderful speakers lined up for this year's event.
Questions may be directed to:
Patrick D. Smith
Executive Director
Office of Mentoring Services and Leadership Development
Eigenmann Hall South 619
1900 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47406-7511
Ph: (812)855-3540
Fax: (812)856-0445
e-mail: smithpd@indiana.edu
URL: www.indiana.edu/~omsld
Monday, March 02, 2009
Cognitive Lunch Abstract for March 4
The next Cognitive Lunch will be held Wednesday, March 4.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"Age Differences in Processing Auditory Temporal Sequences" will be presented by Dan Fogerty,
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Many older listeners have reduced speech understanding abilities that persist even after audibility of the signal is restored. Declining abilities in temporal processing have been proposed as one source of this underlying difficulty as adults age. This study examined the temporal-order processing abilities of young and older adults for several different auditory vowel sequence conditions. Results indicated that older listeners had more variability and performed poorer than young listeners on vowel-identification tasks, although a large overlap in distributions was observed. In addition, older listeners improved performance with additional stimulus exposure, but did not match the performance of young listeners. Individual differences among older listeners demonstrated the influence of cognitive factors, but not audibility or age.
Time: 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Place: Psychology Conference Room (Room 128)
"Age Differences in Processing Auditory Temporal Sequences" will be presented by Dan Fogerty,
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University.
Abstract:
Many older listeners have reduced speech understanding abilities that persist even after audibility of the signal is restored. Declining abilities in temporal processing have been proposed as one source of this underlying difficulty as adults age. This study examined the temporal-order processing abilities of young and older adults for several different auditory vowel sequence conditions. Results indicated that older listeners had more variability and performed poorer than young listeners on vowel-identification tasks, although a large overlap in distributions was observed. In addition, older listeners improved performance with additional stimulus exposure, but did not match the performance of young listeners. Individual differences among older listeners demonstrated the influence of cognitive factors, but not audibility or age.
Lecture: Dan Molden
The Social Psychology Seminar Series presents the following talk.
Friday, March 6
3:30 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 128
Dan Molden, Northwestern University, will present, "Motivations for Prevention or Promotion During Social Exchange: Effects on Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Trust."
Abstract:
People must often decide how to balance their own interests against those of others. Much previous research has focused on how specific prosocial or self-serving motivations guide decisions to behave cooperatively or selfishly in these types of circumstances. Moving beyond this research, the present studies examined how broader motivations for security and maintenance (i.e.,/ prevention/) or growth and attainment (i.e.,/ promotion/) might also influence such decisions. Whereas concerns with prevention have been found to produce a focus on protecting against losses and meeting obligations, concerns with promotion have been found to produce a focus on achieving gains and fulfilling aspirations. Thus, whereas prevention-focused motivations may strengthen consideration of the losses incurred and social obligations
violated by pursuing one's own interests above others', promotion-focused motivations may strengthen consideration of the personal gains possible through such less-cooperative choices. In this talk, I will present a series of studies that support these hypotheses: in these studies, prevention-focused individuals were found to (a) contribute more to communal resources in a/ public goods/ dilemma, (b) return more money to an "investor" who had transferred money to them during a/ trust game/, and (c) even transfer more resources to an anonymous partner with whom they would never have any contact during a/ dictator gam/e than promotion-focused individuals. However, results also suggested that these effects depended upon beliefs that others were committed to an interdependent relationship as well. When interaction partners showed a lack of trust or did not behave fairly, prevention-focused individuals engaged in no more cooperation, and displayed less trust, than did promotion-focused individuals. Broader implications of these findings for understanding the motivations involved in social exchange will be discussed.
Friday, March 6
3:30 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 128
Dan Molden, Northwestern University, will present, "Motivations for Prevention or Promotion During Social Exchange: Effects on Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Trust."
Abstract:
People must often decide how to balance their own interests against those of others. Much previous research has focused on how specific prosocial or self-serving motivations guide decisions to behave cooperatively or selfishly in these types of circumstances. Moving beyond this research, the present studies examined how broader motivations for security and maintenance (i.e.,/ prevention/) or growth and attainment (i.e.,/ promotion/) might also influence such decisions. Whereas concerns with prevention have been found to produce a focus on protecting against losses and meeting obligations, concerns with promotion have been found to produce a focus on achieving gains and fulfilling aspirations. Thus, whereas prevention-focused motivations may strengthen consideration of the losses incurred and social obligations
violated by pursuing one's own interests above others', promotion-focused motivations may strengthen consideration of the personal gains possible through such less-cooperative choices. In this talk, I will present a series of studies that support these hypotheses: in these studies, prevention-focused individuals were found to (a) contribute more to communal resources in a/ public goods/ dilemma, (b) return more money to an "investor" who had transferred money to them during a/ trust game/, and (c) even transfer more resources to an anonymous partner with whom they would never have any contact during a/ dictator gam/e than promotion-focused individuals. However, results also suggested that these effects depended upon beliefs that others were committed to an interdependent relationship as well. When interaction partners showed a lack of trust or did not behave fairly, prevention-focused individuals engaged in no more cooperation, and displayed less trust, than did promotion-focused individuals. Broader implications of these findings for understanding the motivations involved in social exchange will be discussed.
Career Center Events
The Career Development Center reminds you of the following events and deadlines:
* Resume Submission Deadlines
* Open Interview Schedule Deadlines
* Health Programs Fair
* Interviewing 101
* Resume Writing 101
* Disney College Program Recruitment Information Session
* Global Careers: Slavic And East European Career Night
* Big Ten Conference Career Expo
Visit www.iucareers.com and sign in to your myIUcareers account.
* Resume Submission Deadlines
* Open Interview Schedule Deadlines
* Health Programs Fair
* Interviewing 101
* Resume Writing 101
* Disney College Program Recruitment Information Session
* Global Careers: Slavic And East European Career Night
* Big Ten Conference Career Expo
Visit www.iucareers.com and sign in to your myIUcareers account.
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