APAGS Highlights from the 2012 APA Annual Convention

The APAGS session “Women Supporting Women: Mentoring Between APAGS and Eminent Psychologists” was held in the APAGS Suite. At this recurring mentoring session, students benefit from hearing the personal stories of eminent psychologists and are often able to establish long-term mentoring relationships. APAGS thanks the mentors who participated in this session:

• Jane Halonen, PhD, University of West Florida

• Rose Huber, PhD, licensed psychologist

• Bonnie Strickland, PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Janet Thomas, PsyD, licensed psychologist

• Wendy Williams, PhD, Berea College

• Melanie Domenech Rodriguez, PhD, Utah State University

• Guillermo Bernal, PhD, University of Puerto Rico

• Yolanda Flores Niemann, University of North Texas

More than 350 graduate students and their friends attended the APAGS Howl at the Moon Social.

APAGS provided food and drink tickets, and the staff at Howl at the Moon provided the fun and entertainment, with dueling pianos and singers playing songs requested by the audience. There was plenty of dancing and mingling, and the staff at Howl at the Moon even wrote a song about surviving grad school.

This was definitely one of APAGS most successful social events and we look forward to topping it next year in Hawaii.

Each morning of the convention, APAGS hosted Food for Thought Breakfasts in the APAGS Suite. These sessions consisted of a 30-minute breakfast followed by a 50-minute informal discussion with an eminent psychologist. APAGS thanks the following presenters for speaking this year:

• Cheryl Boyce, PhD, National Institute on Drug Abuse

• Philip Zimbardo, PhD, Stanford University

• Jeffrey Barnett, PhD, Loyola University-Maryland
  

The Internship Series is a set of sessions hosted by APAGS to help graduate students prepare for securing a psychology internship. With four sessions in this series, each focused on a different aspect of the application process, including:

• A two-part practical workshop for applying to internship.

• A discussion hour with the chair of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) in which students could ask questions about applying for internship or the Match II.

APAGS also hosted an Internship Meet and Greet where students met with internship training directors from sites around the country.

APAGS thanks the following presenters for participating in this year’s Internship Series:

• Greg Keilin, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

• Mitch Prinstein, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Eugene D’Angelo, PhD, Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital