The Psychology & Human Development Club welcomes

She will be presenting:

Forensic Psychology is Not Criminal Profiling: An Introduction 

This presentation will include a definition of the specialty and a broad overview of the range of professional activities in which forensic psychologists are commonly engaged.  It will correct some of the prevalent misconceptions about the specialty and provide examples illustrating the application of psychological science to issues relating to the law and the legal system. It will also offer some direction regarding education and training in preparation for forensic psychology practice.

Thursday April 24, 2008  6:00pm

The 1965 Room (next to Common Grounds Coffee House) 

Have specific questions for Dr. Luchetta?  Email Robyn Gabel (President) at gabere17@uwgb.edu so we can have the questions prepared and ready to answer.  If possible, RSVP to Robyn by April 22.  Thank you!

Don’t miss this VISITING SPEAKER from Boise State, Idaho.  He is a Professor of Psychology and noted researcher on careers and undergraduate success in psychology.  Even if you do not plan to pursue a career in psychology, or if you aren’t sure yet you want to go to graduate school, these are great opportunities to learn more about how the world of academia works.  You are sure to pick up more tips that will help you succeed for the rest of your time here at UWGB, too. 

April16th 6pm Rose Hall 250: The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success

April 17th 11am 1965 Room University Union: Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story

It has been a busy week!

Last Thursday I had the Derogatory Terms workshop (see below), which went pretty well.  It was a good start, although it would have been nice to have more people there, and one always thinks of things one wishes one would have said after the fact.

I went straight from there to the airport to go present a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology meetings in Memphis, TN.  The conference was pretty good, but my hotel was terrible.  I’d post pictures but I don’t want you to think less of me for knowing I actually slept there! 

The session I chaired turned out to be really wonderful even though three papers were withdrawn at the last minute due to the high costs of travel.  We had one paper about teaching the Anthropology of Education (at the 300-level) in a maximum-security prison.  The inmate-students did an ethnography of their own educational system and then wrote a proposal to improve it, which was actually approved!  Applied anthropology indeed.  The second paper was about a pilot study which investigated adult and adolescent educational programs for those who had dropped out of the school system in Nogales, Mexico. 

And then there was my paper, Taking Over the Neighborhood: How “racial” tensions affect educational choices among Mexican immigrant youth in the south, which was about what it sounds like it was about.

Tonight I am giving my last presentation until June.  It is called Mexican Teens, Identity and Education, and will provide an overview of my dissertation research.  If you happen to view this blog in the next hour, you can catch the presentation in Rose Hall 250 at 6 pm.