• Psychology Department received a group Diversity award from TAMU Provost's office. Individual Diversity awards received by Antonio Cepeda-Benito and Jyotsna Vaid.

• James Grau was recently elected President of Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

• New Grants Awarded to Faculty: Mary Meagher is co-PI on a 5-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health to study the role of cholinergic system in age-related memory impairments. Mark Packard is PI on a 5-year $625,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine neurobiological mechanisms underlying the link between emotion and memory. Winfred Arthur is PI on a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation on complex skill acquisition and retention.

• Ludy Benjamin, Jr., received a Presidential Teaching Award in May 2003, presented by TAMU President Robert Gates and CLA Dean Charles Johnson.

• Gerianne Alexander's research with Melissa Hines on toy preferences in vervet monkeys was cited in Newsweek's cover article on "Boys, Girls, and Autism" (Sept. 8, 2003). See Psychology Spotlight story below.

• New Graduate Placements this Fall: Minda Orina, Social doctoral student, is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communication, Michigan State University. Jamie Rhudy, Clinical doctoral student, is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychology, University of Tulsa. Bryan Edwards, IO doctoral student, is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychology, Tulane University.

Department News Page

Why do boys and girls like different types of toys?  A recent study published by Dr. Gerianne Alexander, in collaboration with Dr. Melissa Hines at City University, London, suggests that biology may play a key role in sex-typed toy preferences.

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Feb. 20

IO Psychology Colloquium:
Dr. Maura Belliveau, TAMU, Management Dept
"Engendering Inequity?"

Feb. 23

Cognoscenti:
Dr. Morris Moscovitch
Univ. of Toronto
"Holistic, part-based and semantic processes in face-recognition: Disassociations and interactions"

PSYC 336 - 9:30am

Feb. 23

Neurocognoscenti:
Dr. Morris Moscovitch
Univ. of Toronto
"Remote memory in humans and rats: Consolidation and hippocampal-neocortical interaction"

Evans Library, Rm. 1.204E
12noon-1:30pm

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