SPSP 2012 Mentor Lunch Registration now Open!

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Dear SPSP Graduate Students,

This is a reminder that registration for the 2012 Mentor Lunch starts today, January 5th, at 5pm(EST).   Click on the following link to register: Mentor Luncheon Website or read on for more details.

 

If you are attending the upcoming 2012 SPSP Convention in San Diego, you won't want to miss the two Mentoring Luncheons hosted by the SPSP Graduate Student Committee. The Mentoring Luncheon is a popular (and free!) event which provides graduate students with an informal opportunity to discuss research interests and career development with established professionals in the field. Small groups of students (usually 8 or 9 maximum per table) meet with mentors over the SPSP box lunch to discuss a variety of research and professional development topics. This year, as in years past, we will be hosting a Mentoring Luncheon on both the Friday and the Saturday of the conference. We have a great set of topics and mentors lined up for this year, and hope that many of you will be able to take part in this event. 

The mentoring luncheons will be held Friday, January 27th from 1-2pm and Saturday, January 28th, from 1-2pm. 

**The Friday lunch overlaps with Poster Session C and the Saturday lunch overlaps with Poster Session F.**

Below, you will find a list of mentors and topics for both Mentoring Luncheons and instructions on how to participate. Please take a few minutes to read the instructions carefully and then check out our list of 37 topics and mentors. 

Sign-up for this event will begin Thursday, January 5th at 5:00pm (EST); space will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. If your request is received BEFORE Thursday, January 5th at 5:00pm (EST), it will not be processed.This should help to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to receive this email and prepare for sign-up before sign-up begins. 

If you would like to participate, please follow these steps:

1) Check the Poster Assignments page on the SPSP Convention website (http://www.spspmeeting.org/) to see when your poster(s) is/are scheduled. This will hopefully prevent people from signing up for and later having to cancel from a luncheon that overlaps with their poster session(s). Remember - the Friday lunch overlaps with Poster Session C and the Saturday lunch overlaps with Poster Session F. DO NOT skip this step! 

2)  After 5:00pm (EST) on Thursday, January 5^th, log on to this website to sign up for the mentoring luncheon by clicking on this link: Mentor Luncheon Website .Be sure to include your name, University affiliation, email address, and a rank-ordered list of up to 5 topics and associated mentors and day (Friday or Saturday). Some topics are offered more than once, so include the mentor name to ensure you sign up for the right table. Be sure to include ALL of this information, or we will not be able to process your request.   

3) You will receive an email within a few days regarding your table assignment.

Remember - if your email is received BEFORE Thursday, January 5th at 5:00pm (EST), your request will not be processed. 

Space is limited, so each student will only be able to participate in this event once (i.e. you won't be able to sign up for a table on both Friday AND Saturday). 

Many thanks to all of the mentors for volunteering their time! 

Looking forward to receiving your selections,
Megan Johnson, Mollie Ruben, and Krista Hill
on behalf of the SPSP Graduate Student Committee

MENTORING LUNCHEON TOPICS AND MENTORS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH (During Poster Session C)

Preparing for, Applying to, and Getting a Post-Doc (International): Vassilis Saroglou

Preparing for, Applying to, and Getting a Research Job (US): Nathan DeWall

Achieving a Work-Life Balance: Wendy Wood

Working in a Non-Academic Research Setting: Heather Patrick

The Global Job Market: Kathleen Vohs

Navigating the Tenure Process: Judy Hall

How to Get a Job at Liberal Arts College: Marie Helweg-Larsen

Undergraduates: How to decide which graduate school to go to/pick your advisor: Corinne Moss-Racusin

How to Apply to Graduate Schools: Austin Lee Nichols

How to Set Up a Programmatic Line of Research: Elizabeth Pinel

Creative and alternative ways to collect data: Sam Gosling

Writing for Success:  Grants: Hart Blanton

Writing for Success: Manuscripts: Roy Baumeister

Current State of Research: Relationships: Benjamin Karney

Current State of Research: Forgiveness: Julie Exline

Current State of Research: Happiness: Sonja Lyubomirski

Current State of Research: Social Psych Of Kids: Kristina Olseon

Current State of Research: Moral and political psychology: John Haidt

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28TH (During Poster Session F)

Life as a Female Academic: Tessa West

Job Market Tips: Sophie Trawalter

What to Know Going into Your First Job: Jesse Graham

Teaching and Research at a Liberal Arts College: Seth Wagerman

Preparing for, Applying to, and Getting a Post-Doc (U.S.): Jeni Kubota

Parenthood and the Tenure Track:Traci Mann

Undergraduates: What I wish I knew going in my first year of graduate school: Jordan Troisi

Dual career hunting: Jennifer S. Hunt

Mentoring Undergraduates in Research: Carol Wilson

How to Form Successful Research Collaborations: Brian Nosek

Advanced Statistics: How to Get There: Nicholas Rule

Writing for Success: How to form Successful Writing Collaborations: Susan Krauss Whitbourne

Writing for Success:  How to Increase Writing Productivity: Winnifred Louis

Writing for Success: What Editors are Looking For in Journal Articles: Jeff Simpson

Current State of Research: Health research: Sally Dickerson

Current State of Research: Psychology of Religiosity and Spirituality: Azim Shariff

Current State of Research: Implicit and Explicit Race Bias: Ashby Plant

Current State of Research: Development and Aging: Derek Isaacowitz

Teaching in Psychology: Sadie Leder

Current State of Research: Social Neuroscience: Philip Gable

 

2011-2012 SPSP Graduate Student Committee
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Marina Milyavskaya, President, marina.milyavskaya@mail.mcgill.ca
Lillia Cherkasskiy, Member-at-Large, lillia.ch...@yale.edu
Megan Johnson, Member-at-Large, Megan_J...@baylor.edu
Mollie Ruben, Member-at-Large, rub...@husky.neu.edu
Shimon Saphire-Bernstein, Member-at-Large, shimon.saphirebernstein@gmail.com
Krista Hill, Member-at-Large for Undergraduate Affairs, hil...@husky.neu.edu
Sean Hughes, Past President, sean....@nuim.ie