Focus on Science
Student-Oriented Programming
All sessions will be held in the Washington Convention Center unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, August 3, 2000
1:00 - 8:00 p.m.
This workshop is especially for junior scientists - graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research associates and early career faculty - who may be interested in drug abuse and addiction research.
Of particular interest is an interactive grants-writing tutorial, with instruction on NIH mechanisms of research and training support, programmatic considerations, and review issues.
For a list of speakers, topics, and other session information, please visit the web page for NIDA's Convention programming: http://www.nida.nih.gov/BSWG/APA2000.html.
9:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
This workshop is intended for individuals who are about to enter or who are in the early stages of careers as academic psychologists. It was organized in recognition of the fact that psychologists seeking an academic career generally confront a range of professional issues that are unique to the academic environment. This workshop is jointly sponsored by the Board of Scientific Affairs and the Board of Educational Affairs.
The academic job market is distinct in its practices. Once hired, new faculty members must learn to manage their multiple responsibilities, learn to teach at the undergraduate or graduate levels while they build their research programs, seek funding from internal and external sources, develop working relationships with colleagues and with the graduate students with whom they collaborate, and work toward the key task of achieving tenure.
For a list of speakers, topics, and other session information, please visit the web page for The Academic Career--A Beginner's Manual: http://www.apa.org/science/academic.html.
8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
This program will provide critical information to aid applicants for federal research and training grants. Presenters will provide the audience with an overview of available funding programs and a short description of the criteria used to evaluate submissions. The first part of the program will feature individuals from national funding agencies such as NSF and the National Cancer Institute. After the brief presentations, attendees may speak directly to program staff of federal funding agencies at tables grouped by topic area (i.e. Social and Personality Research).
12:00 - 1:50 p.m.
As in previous years, the APA Science Student Council, in conjunction with APAGS, has invited a number of distinguished psychologists to discuss with graduate students important issues of psychological science (and beyond). This program will be a relatively informal roundtable discussion, where topics such as career development, becoming a faculty member, and balancing demands of one's professional and your personal lives, can be addressed. We will be flexible regarding questions and input from the audience, and graduate students will have the opportunity to interact with the speakers. Feel free to bring some questions to ask our participants!
2:00 - 2:50 p.m.
This program is designed for graduate students, faculty, and other psychologists interested in learning how to more effectively communicate their findings to non-academic sources, and how to use psychological science to influence public policy. The purpose of the symposium will be to bring together multiple perspectives on ways to contact and interact with the media, lobby groups, congressional representatives, and how to provide testimony on current issues. Discussion will focus on the steps involved in distilling academic findings to a form that is user-friendly for the general public with the greatest potential to garner attention from policy-makers.
8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
The purpose of this panel discussion is to provide the audience with information and opportunity to discuss non-academic careers in psychology. Specifically, panelists include William Strickland and Douglas Quartetti from Human Resources Research Organization, Marisa Pynchon from the U.S. Secret Service, and Kathie Olsen from NASA. Panelist will first provide a brief presentation of their work, how they chose their profession, the type of training they recommend and the highlights and most challenging aspects of their work. The panelists will also be open to questions the audience.
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