2010 Science Leadership Conference

November 11 - 13,2010 │Washington, D.C.

The theme of our sixth annual Science Leadership Conference was "Strengthening Our Science: Enhancing the Status of Psychology as a STEM Discipline." Participants developed proposals for activities that APA and other organizations and individuals can undertake to increase recognition of psychology as a core STEM (science-technology-engineering-mathematics) discipline.

Articles about the 2010 SciLC

• APA Science Leadership Conference takes on psychology's STEM challenge

• Sharing the STEM: What I learned as a graduate student participant at the Science Leadership Conference

• How to advance psychology as a STEM discipline: Proposals from the APA Science Leadership Conference

APA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Psychology as a STEM Discipline

• New APA Task Force on Psychology as a STEM Discipline

• 2009 Task Force Report (PDF, 113KB)

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