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Summer session registration starts soon.  GW has several offerings in the Psych Department:

1. Health Promotion in Underserved Populations—the 14th year of this successful summer institute combining health psychology, multi-cultural psychology, and opportunities to do research or service internships in health-related areas.   See http://summer.gwu.edu/health-promotion   

2. Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness—the 3rd year of this in-depth look at the fascinating topic of consciousness and its neural basis, combining coursework on consciousness, cognitive neuroscience, and research. See  http://summer.gwu.edu/cognitive-neuroscience

Each of these institutes involves up to 13 hours of focused coursework (you can take 9-10 if you’ve already had a course in the package).  Each runs for 10 weeks and involves a 35% tuition discount and special field activities.  Each is an opportunity for intensive study of an area of psychology as part of a small group of faculty and students. Each can help you achieve your goals—for example, prepare for graduate or professional study, speed completion of your degree, clear room in your schedule for study abroad during the academic year, immerse yourself in an area of interest.

Students must apply and be accepted to participate. If you would like an application form or have questions, just email the program director listed at the bottom of the link above.

3. Distance Education Offerings. The Department is offering five distance education courses this summer (You can take them from the beach!):  General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Eating Disorders (Psyc 3199, Special Topics: Eating Disorders), and Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Psyc 2544, taught by Organizational Sciences and Communication).

4. On-Campus Courses. Some of our basic courses such as Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, and Research Methods are offered on campus if you’re here and need any of them.

Congratulations to Sapana Donde (Ph.D. '09) on publishing 4 papers from her dissertation! Her research on sexual assault is more relevant than ever these days. Although she was a student in the clinical program, her dissertation chair was Dr. Alyssa Zucker.

Donde, S. D. (2015). College women’s attributions of blame for experiences of rape. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi:
10.1177/0886260515599659

Donde, S. D. (2016). College women’s assignment of blame versus responsibility for sexual assault experiences. Violence Against Women. doi: 10.1177/1077801216665481

Donde, S., & Ragsdale, S. K. A. (2017). Assuming personal responsibility for sexual assault: Harmful but potentially adaptive for college women? Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi/10.1177/0886260517734223

Donde, S., D., Ragsdale, S. K. A., Koss, M. P., & Zucker, A.N. (2018). If it wasn’t rape, was it sexual assault? Comparing rape and sexual assault acknowledgement in college women who have experienced rape. Violence Against Women.
doi/10.1177/1077801217743339

The Georgetown Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) Student Planning Committee would like to invite students from Georgetown University and from nearby universities to present their health-related scientific research at this year’s URC. URC is a day of student poster sessions and presentations from students and an esteemed keynote speaker, aiming to highlight the health science-related research efforts of undergraduate students. This year will mark the 16th year of the Georgetown URC and will be held on April 18th, 2018 at Georgetown University in the Healey Family Student Center.

We would greatly appreciate if you would forward this email to any faculty and/or students who may be interested in presenting or attending.

 

The tentative conference agenda is as follows:

Wednesday 4/18/18:

  • 10:00a-11:30a: Student Poster Session 1
  • 12:00p: Keynote Address by Maria Jasin, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and lunch for conference participants
  • 1:30p-3:00p: Student Poster Session 2
  • 3:30p:  Student Oral Presentations, Awards Ceremony

 

Applying:

The application and additional information for this year’s conference can be found at:

https://goo.gl/HSjrFu

 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Abstract and Application submission deadline: March 19th @ 11:59pm

Poster submission deadline: April 4th @ 11:59pm

All posters will be printed by the URC Student Planning Committee at the School of Nursing and Health Studies. There is no fee for applying, registering, or printing.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email nhsurc@georgetown.edu. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Niritta Patel

Georgetown Undergraduate Research Conference Planning Committee