Science convention programming highlights

APA?s Annual Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 14?18, will include some exciting science programming. Most of the science-related sessions will occur as part of APA?s condensed Focus on Science programming on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the meeting. Highlights will include:

? A special series called 'Brain and Behavior,' co-sponsored by Divs. 3 (Experimental) and 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) and funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

? A special program series on alcohol research, co-sponsored by Divs. 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse) and 50 (Addictions) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

? A two-day workshop for new academics on how to keep an academic job, entitled 'The academic career: a beginner?s manual.' (Those interested will need to register separately for this program.)

More information on these programs will appear in future issues of the Monitor and will be available on the APA World Wide Web page at http://www.apa.org/science/fos98.html. Or call the APA Science Directorate at (202) 336-6106.

?Beth Azar