Science convention programs listed on the web

APA?s Annual Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 14?18, will include some exciting science programming, including two special programs on the brain and behavior, and alcohol research.

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.

Among the highlights will be:

? 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.

? An experimental series of

four-hour?as opposed to the standard one-hour?theme-based poster sessions on Friday and Saturday. More than 550 posters will be grouped by science-related themes that include learning, memory and cognition; psychology and the workplace; and influences on social behavior.

? 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.)

? A science student program on careers, which will include talks by three distinguished psychologists.

? A lecture for women psychology students on how to balance a research career with other obligations, co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students.

? A program on nonacademic science careers, sponsored by the APA Board of Scientific Advisers.

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

336-6100.

?Beth Azar