Event Category Archives: Featured News and Events

Online Colloquium with Dr. Tom Griffiths, Princeton University Copy

• Categories: Featured News and Events

Join us for a talk on ‘Modeling cognitive processes as the rational use of limited resources’.

Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right: Talk with Brian Nosek

28 February 2019 5:30 pm

• Venue: CHBE 101- Chemical and Biological Engineering Building
• Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News and Events, Featured Research
• Tags: Open Science, Psychology

Join us for an evening of stimulating discussion on the rewards of open science with Brian Nosek, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Open Science.

CANCELLED! Everything you wanted to know about teaching at a small college (but were afraid to ask) with Dr. Wendy Morris

14 March 2019 12:00 pm

• Venue: Douglas Kenny Building, Suedfeld Lounge, Room 2510
• Categories: Featured News and Events
• Tags: Guest Talk

Hear the experiences and advice of Dr. Wendy Morris who earned her Ph.D. from UVA and is now an Associate Professor of Psychology, the Acting Dean of the Faculty, and has served on many search committees at McDaniel College in Maryland.

Colloquium with Dr. Athena Aktipis 

15 March 2019 3:00 pm

• Venue: 122, West Mall Swing Space Building
• Categories: Featured News and Events

Dr. Athena Aktipis: How generosity, cheating, and exploitation shape our world, from human social groups to cellular societies.

Psychology Careers Expo

21 March 2019 12:00 pm

• Venue: AMS Student Nest | Great Hall
• Categories: Featured News and Events
• Tags: Career, PSA, Psi Chi

UBC’s Psi Chi chapter is collaborating with the Psychology Students’ Association and UBC Psychology to bring a Careers Expo to psychology students.  

Medical Assistance in Dying: Perspectives for the Profession of Psychology

29 March 2019 9:00 am

• Venue: Douglas Kenny Building, Suedfeld Lounge, Room 2510
• Categories: Featured News and Events

Join UBC Psychology Clinic for a presentation by Sam Mikail, Ph.D., R.Psych. Includes a special presentation followed by a Q&A period. This workshop is free but advance registration is required. 

2019 Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC)

29 March 2019 4:00 pm

• Venue: UBC's Earth Sciences Building (ESB): atrium + rooms 1012/1013
• Categories: Featured News and Events, Featured Research

As a long-standing tradition of UBC Psychology’s undergraduate community, the Psychology Students’ Association of UBC and the Department of Psychology are hosting the 21st annual UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference.

Cognitive Area Workshop with Dr. Kalina Michalska

05 April 2019 12:30 pm

• Venue: Douglas Kenny Building, Suedfeld Lounge, Room 2510
• Categories: Featured News and Events

The Cognitive Area is hosting a talk by developmental cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Kalina Michalska (UC Riverside).

2019 Quinn Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Richard Aslin

16 April 2019 5:00 pm

• Venue: Jack Poole Hall-Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
• Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News and Events, Featured Research

Join us for an inspired evening with Dr. Richard Aslin, Distinguished Research Scientist at the Haskins Laboratories. Dr. Aslin will share his research in a talk entitled ‘Learning and attention in infants: The importance of prediction in development’.

PhD Dissertation Proposal Meeting: Spencer Murch

01 May 2019 1:00 pm

• Venue: Ponderosa 4038C
• Categories: Featured Graduate, Featured News and Events

Changing the Games: Profiling Immersive Slot Machine Features and Optimizing On-Screen Messages to Address Gambling Harm