VOLUME 30 , NUMBER 5 May 1999

The latest at APA's Web Site

Convention information
(www.apa.org/convention)

This spot features up-to-date information on APA's Annual Convention in Boston, Aug. 20-24, and offers online convention registration.

Other helpful web sites

PsycSite: Professional Centre General Resources
(stange.simplenet.com/psycsite/html/prof._resources.htm)

Visitors to this site, run by the psychology department at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, will find listings of psychology-related employment opportunities worldwide, news articles and links to grant information, conference dates and professional organizations and societies.

Community of Science
(www.cos.com)

Visit this site, a network of 200,000 scientists and 215 universities, research and development corporations and government agencies, providing information on what research institutes and organizations are funding in various scientific areas. The site claims it has the largest database of grants--more than 15,000--on the web. You can also use the site to find and collaborate with colleagues through its searchable directory of scientist profiles.

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
(ethics.cwru.edu)

This site, supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, is a comprehensive source of ethical codes and discussion of ethical problems and cases in scientific research. Among other materials, the site provides reference materials for protection of human subjects and ethics-related activities, role-plays and sample studies for classroom use.

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
(www. cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/)

Visitors to this site of a joint NSF-University of Pennsylvania project, co-directed by psychologist Lila Gleitman, PhD, can read about the center's interdisciplinary research on topics such as language acquisition, logic and computation, and perception and action. The site also provides abstracts of studies and dissertations, and links to other cognition-related labs.

Social psychology network
(www.wesleyan.edu/spn/)

Claiming to be largest social psychology database on the Internet, this site from Wesleyan University's psychology department includes more than 4,000 links to resources such as social psychology academic programs, online social psychology studies, social psychology journals and a social psychologist directory.

Psychwatch
(www.psychwatch.com/inde_main.htm)

This wide-ranging resource for psychologists and psychiatrists, maintained by Fordham University graduate students, provides job and conference listings, directories of researchers and practitioners, a newsletter, a bulletin board and a new web page on multicultural psychology that includes scholarship information.

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