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THE 34th ANNUAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY
NITOP January 2012: There Is Still Time to Register Registration is still open as of Novermber 15, 2011, for the 34th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, January 3-6, 2012, at the TradeWinds
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APS Members are Professors of the Year, Detweiler-Bedell Receives National Award
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell, Associate Professor of Psychology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon has been named 2008 Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year in a joint award by the Carnegie Foundation for the
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Lessons Learned in 60 Years of Teaching, Research, and Learning: Wilbert McKeachie’s APS Award Address
McKeachie For his James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address at the 2009 APS Convention, Bill McKeachie chose to be interviewed rather than to deliver a traditional lecture. In preparing for the interview, I gathered questions
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Getting Outside Myself to Help the Thai People
APS Fellow Bruce Svare reflects on his time in Thailand Those of us in higher education have a tendency to develop tunnel vision and become overly focused on our professional careers as scientists. When world
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How To Be a Good Mentee
Mentoring relationships are the bedrock on which much of higher education is built. Mentoring reflects a relationship between an experienced senior colleague (mentor) and a less experienced junior colleague or student (mentee), in which the
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Working With Undergraduate Research Assistants: Setting Up and Maintaining a Research Laboratory
Let us imagine two hypothetical psychology laboratories, in need of new research assistants. Dr. Eager and Dr. Careful are both new professors in psychology, and from the day they are hired, they begin receiving e-mails