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2014-04-30

[DIV28SUPER] FW: Graduate Students Apply Now to Join the Science Student Council

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Graduate Students: Apply Now to Join the Science Student Council

The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (APA) is currently accepting applications for positions on the APA Science Student Council (SSC). Formed in 1993, the SSC is a diverse group of research-oriented psychology graduate students who serve as an advisory group to the APA Science Directorate and Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA). The SSC provides valuable advice to the Directorate and BSA on how to best serve the science student population. It is also involved in other projects, including awarding prizes for graduate-level research, organizing student programs for the APA Convention, writing newsletter articles, learning about and participating in advocacy for psychological funding, and making recommendations on the Directorate's student programs. The SCC works cooperatively with the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS).

Applications are now invited for 2-year terms beginning September 1, 2014. By the beginning of the term, new SSC members must have completed at least 1 year of graduate school and have at least 2 years of graduate school remaining before receiving their doctoral degrees. SSC members are required to attend two weekend meetings per year in Washington, DC, at APA's expense, with the potential to attend additional optional APA governance events. In addition, SSC members are expected to remain available via email during an unofficial third (non-meeting) year to advise new members (this third year can be postdoctoral).

Five positions are available on the SSC for the September 2014 to September 2016 term. One person in each of the following areas of research will be selected:

--Behavioral Neuroscience
--Clinical Science
--Health Psychology
--Social/Personality

Applications must be submitted electronically by June 5, 2014, at 11:59pm. More details, including how to apply, are on the SSC website. Please direct questions to the APA Science Directorate by telephone (202) 336-6000 or by email.

Learn more about the SSC and its current projects and visit the nominations website at http://www.apa.org/science/leadership/students/nominations.aspx

2014-04-27

[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: Vaporland Is Hopping

http://nyti.ms/1jRi9Xy

Regulators may be starting to circle, but in Oklahoma, the e-cigarette industry is going full steam ahead.

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2014-04-26

[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: Wise Controls on E-Cigarettes

http://nyti.ms/1tMjabx

The rules proposed by the F.D.A. would lay the foundation to protect the public from devices whose risks are largely unknown.

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2014-04-24

[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: F.D.A. Will Propose New Regulations for E-Cigarettes

Today:
http://nyti.ms/QGydE7

The federal government is also proposing to include cigars and tobacco pipes under its regulatory control.

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2014-04-23

[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?

http://nyti.ms/1fhmOkb

Steven Wise is arguing for the legal "personhood" of chimps and other animals. And no one is laughing him out of the courtroom.

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[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: ‘Animals Are Persons Too’

http://nyti.ms/1mvuowP

A short documentary follows the lawyer Steven Wise's effort to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans.

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2014-04-22

[DIV28SUPER] 2014 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology

The APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs

2014 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology

The APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) continues to strive for increased research that will promote a better understanding of the complex issues facing communities of color (i.e., African Americans/Blacks, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Hispanics/Latino(a)s). To this end, CEMA sponsors an award for the most outstanding dissertation in psychology which addresses concerns relevant to populations of color. The Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology is so designated in the memory of an outstanding scholar and psychologist of color whose career stressed the critical importance and relevance of the role of culture and ethnicity in the scientific understanding of behavior. Dr. Tanaka was actively involved in APA, where he was a Fellow of the Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, and Member of the Divisions of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues. He was chair-elect of the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs at the time of his death on November 3, 1992. CEMA welcomes applications from ethnic minorities, as well as non-ethnic minority individuals who are currently APA members/student affiliates and/or interested in becoming APA members/student affiliates that have filed their dissertations in either 2012 or 2013, on research involving one or more of the following areas:

• Contribution which enhances the understanding of people of color

• Contribution to the enhancement of psychological service delivery systems to persons of color.

• Development of new concepts and/or theories relevant to populations of color.

• Development of new and creative methodological paradigms which promote more effective research on and for communities of color.

• Creative approach in methodology sensitive to the unique values, beliefs, and needs of communities of color.

Selection will be made by a CEMA appointed Dissertation Award Selection Sub-committee utilizing a masked review process. Evaluation of abstracts and dissertations submitted will be based on the following criteria:

(a) Potential impact upon ethnic minority populations; (b) Completeness and clarity of abstract/dissertation;

(c) Creativity of project; and (d) Effectiveness of research design.

Semi-finalists will be chosen from an initial review of all abstracts submitted and requested to provide copies of their entire dissertation for the final selection process. The author of the dissertation determined to be the most outstanding will earn a $500 cash prize, a $300 travel award (contingent upon award presentation ceremony attendance), and will be invited to the APA annual convention. Submissions from non-APA member/student affiliate applicants are welcome; however, they will be strongly encouraged to become an APA member/student affiliate if selected as a semi-finalist and/or award winner.

To apply, please send a total of five (5) copies of a 1000 word abstract [four (4) must be anonymous copies; only one copy should indicate author's name, current address, and daytime telephone number] to the APA, Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242; (202) 336-6029; or via email to: OEMA@apa.org. In addition, please ensure that the title of the dissertation appears on all copies of abstracts submitted.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 30, 2014


Sherry T. Wynn \| Senior Program Associate Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs Public Interest Directorate American Psychological Association 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 (202) 336-6029 \| Fax: (202) 336-6040 swynn@apa.org \| www.apa.org

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