Events


Seminars and Event Series

Department Research Programs

Behavioral Neuroscience Seminars

Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.
Bousfield Psychology Building, Room 160

If you have speaker suggestions, questions, or would like to receive email announcements, please contact john.salamone@uconn.edu.


PSYC 5200 and Student Presentations

The seminars are open to any interested faculty, staff, and students. However, behavioral neuroscience (BNS) graduate students are required to take four semesters of seminar (PSYC 5200) for credit. The major goal of the course is to give students a chance to practice presenting and get feedback on their research. Senior graduate students and advanced/honors undergraduates working in BNS/PNB labs may also register.

Resources:

Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Communicating Science: Giving Talks

Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations – PLoS Computational Biology

Giving an Academic Talk – Jonathan Shewchuk

10 Tips for Academic Talks – Matt Might

Clinical Brown Bag

Wednesdays from 12:30-1:25 p.m.

Bousfield Psychology Building, Room 160

For more detailed information, please contact inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu or join the announcement listserv: CLINICALPSYCBROWNBAG-L.

Perception Action Workshop (PAW)

Fridays at 3:00 p.m.
Bousfield Psychology Building, Room 378A

View the schedule of events.

Virtual meeting link.

Developmental Psychology Brown Bag

Time: Fridays at 12:20-1:10 p.m.
Location: Bousfield Psychology Building, Room A106; virtual events or events taking place in another location are noted below. For virtual events, please email the coordinators for a meeting link.

Coordinators: Kelsey Davinson (kelsey.davinson@conn.edu) and Martina Villa (martina.villa@uconn.edu)

Sign language interpreting will be provided for these talks. To request this service, please contact a coordinator at least 72 hours before the event.

Announcements will be made at the beginning of each event. To share an announcement with the group, please fill out this form.


Spring 2024

Jan. 19
Spring Semester Welcome

Jan. 26
Dr. Nick Turk-Browne
Professor at Yale
Location: Konover Auditorium

Feb. 2
Dr. Amy Margolis
Associate Professor at Columbia
Location: Konover Auditorium

Feb. 9
No Meeting

Feb. 16
Martina Villa
Graduate Student (Dev)

Feb. 23
Dr. Nicole Depowski
Assistant Professor at Wells College
Graduate Student Professional Development Event Working at a teaching-focused college
Virtual event

Feb. 28 (replacing March 1)
Psyc Colloquium
3:30 pm
Bousfield Psychology Building, Room A106
Faculty & Grad Student Professional Development Event - Please attend the working group session on teaching neurodiverse students

March 8 & March 15
No Meetings

March 22
Katherine Jennings
Graduate Student (Dev)

March 29
Dr. Zoe Ngo
Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute
Virtual event

April 5
Luiza de Melo Carvalho
Graduate Student (Dev)

April 12
Dr. Silvia Clement-Lam
Assistant Research Professor & Associate Director of Research (UConn Waterbury)

April 19
Dr. Eileen Condon
Assistant Professor at the UConn School of Nursing

April 26
Menghan Yang
Graduate Student (Dev)
&
Spring Send-off

Social Psychology Speaker Series

All events take place:

Wednesdays
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Bousfield Psychology Building, Room 162

Webex link for online talks

Organizers: Minh Duc Pham and Jasmine Perry.

Fall 2024

Aug. 28
Welcome Back Brown Bag (food included)

Sep. 4
Felicia Pratto, University of Connecticut, Student Orientation

Sep. 11
Faculty Meeting

Sep. 18
Fade Eadeh, Seattle University, When the Alarm is Coming from Inside the House: The Threat of Neo-Nazi Terroism on Political Preferences and White Identity

Sep. 25
Virtual Event: Omi Salas-SantaCruz, Penn State University, My Pronouns are Fuck ICE: on the Colonial Gender Continuum Colonial Dysphoria, and Loving Illegality

Oct. 2
Faculty Meeting

Oct. 9
Felicia Pratto, University of Connecticut, How to Deliver Good Talks and Rec Letter Panel

Oct. 16
Johanna Vollhardt, Clark University, The Social Psychology of Collective Victimization: From Vulnerability and Threat to Solidarity and Resistance 

Oct. 23
Diane Quinn, University of Connecticut, Components of Academic Job Application Panel

Oct. 30
Virtual Event: Harrison Schmitt, Skidmore College, Slow Violence in the Southwest: Toward a Socioecological Understanding of Toxic Trauma in Environmental Justice Communities 

Nov. 6
Faculty Meeting

Nov. 13
Minh Duc Pham, University of Connecticut, Job Talk Practice

Nov. 20
Dr. Benjamin Meagher, Hope College, Be Our Guest: Psychological Studies in Hospitality

Nov. 27
Thanksgiving - no events

Dec. 4
Faculty Meeting


Spring 2025

Jan. 22
No events - First Week of the Semester

Jan. 29
Max Hui Bai, Political Belief Lab, Asian = Machine, Black = Animal? The Racial Asymmetry of Dehumanization

Feb. 5
Faculty Meeting

Feb. 12
Admissions Preparation Week

Feb. 19
SPSP 2025

Feb. 26
Virtual Event: Mora Reinka, Andrew Stewart, Stephanie Finneran, Josephine Korchmaros, Elif Ikizer, Alumni Panel

Mar. 5
Faculty Meeting

Mar. 12
Kimberly Rios, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harnessing the Many Facets of White Identity to Reduce Perceptions of Threat and Improve Intergroup Relations

Mar. 19
No events - spring break

Mar. 26
Esther Burton, Smith College, Critical Consciousness: An "Antidote to Oppression?"

Apr. 2
Faculty Meeting

Apr. 9
Virtual Event: Syed Mohammad Omar, University of Kansas, Racism-evasion Among White Americans and Social Psychology Textbooks 

Apr. 16
Ruiyi (Meredith) Zhang, University of Connecticut

Apr. 23
Sharde Davis, University of Connecticut, The Blaxit Movement: Examining Black Women's Global Relocation on Mental Health, Physical Health Vitals, and Psychological Well-Being

Apr. 30
First Year Presentations, University of Connecticut