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Psych Snippets
Information for Davidson Psychologists & Friends of Psychology
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 Dr. Ault, Professor Emerita of Psychology, was honored in a column about mentors. Congratulations, Dr. Ault!
Sue Frantz, PhD: psychology professor, Highline College in Washington
How did you find a mentor?
I wasn't actively looking for a mentor when I met someone who turned out to be a mentor for me. I was working at Highline College when I was serving as the director of Project Syllabus for APA's Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology). I had heard of Ruth Ault because she was the director of the Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology. I met her for the first time in Florida in 2005 because we were both readers for the AP psychology test. Throughout the week, we had time to socialize and she encouraged me to go to APA's Annual Convention. I thought the convention seemed overwhelming, but she suggested that I focus on division activities.
How did your mentor help you succeed?
When I attended my first convention, Ruth invited me to sit next to her at the division's annual meeting and introduced me to people. She helped me understand what Div. 2 was about, how APA works and who the people were in the organization. This background helped me move into leadership positions, such as a member and later a chair for the Committee for Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges. I also served on APA's Membership Board. Currently I'm vice president for resources for the division and a college representative for APA's Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools. When I was thinking about creating ToPIX (Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange), a wiki of teaching resources, she provided valuable advice on how to move that idea forward.
How are you paying it forward by mentoring others?
I used to go to conferences with the goal of learning something new for myself. That's still a goal, but not the primary one. Now I want to meet people who are new to the profession to find out what they want to do. I have conversations about the starter opportunities in APA, like being a reviewer for different resources. In January, APA's Early Career Psychology Committee had a social, and I had wonderful conversations with several people. Five years ago, I also started a blog (SueFrantz.com) about technology you can use that is specifically geared for instructors. I started it because I think there are a lot of instructors doing things the hard way, and I wanted to share ideas with them.
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Dr. Multhaup spent June 9-26 on a study trip to Japan entitled Global Cities, Local Memories. The trip was funded through a Mellon Foundation grant to the ASIANetwork Faculty Enhancement Program (ANFEP). Just a few images courtesy of participant Manuel Lopez-Zafra:
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Waiting for Tokyo-to-Kyoto bullet train
Yes, that is one small carry-on and one tote bag for 17 days of travel, including business casual events.
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Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto
In addition to city government offices, museums, and memorials we visited many temples and shrines.
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Hiroshima A-bomb Survivor Story
Kiyomi Kohno shared her story of what she experienced when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She is in the dark dress third from left in front row.
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Under A-bomb Survivor Tree
We met with Green Legacy Hiroshima NGO staff who brought us to visit trees that survived the A-bomb. The trees' roots only grow away from the bomb-side, a pattern called the trees' memory.
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Public Interest Directorate
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Office of International Affairs
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- Seeking more balance
- Datapoint: More psychologists, healthier counties
- Climate change is threatening mental health
- By the numbers:Happiness around the world
- The science of naps
- Are you too cocky?
- Destigmatizing mental illness needs a national push
- How did you get that job? Travel app entrepreneur
- & more!
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Planning Ahead: Events & Opportunities
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 Second Annual Diversity Weekend at the University of Minnesota scheduled for October 12-14, 2016, on the Minneapolis campus. The costs of transportation and lodging will be covered for applicants selected to participate in this program. See this page for the application. The deadline for receipt of these materials is August 22nd, 2016 at 5 pm (CST). Applications will be reviewed over the next two weeks and selection notifications will be sent in early September. |
 The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture (ISPRC) at Boston College is hosting it's 16th Annual Diversity Challenge Conference October 28-29, 2016. Diversity Challenge 2016: Race, Culture, and Educating our Youths: Developing Whole People Not Widgets October 28-29, 2016
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Preparing & Applying for Grad School in Psychology
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This series of 12 videos takes prospective graduate students step-by-step through the preparation, application, interview and admission processes. The presenters combine decades of advising experience and research findings with evidence-based and anxiety-reducing strategies for mastering each step. Each video is 20-25 min and there is a link for supplemental handouts. |
On This Day: 07 July 
1843 - Camillo Golgi was born. Golgi was a neurologist who first identified axons and dendrites and their functions. He also identified the sense receptors of muscular sensations. Nobel prize, 1906.
1851 - Lillien Jane Martin was born. Martin worked with G. E. Müller in psychophysics and founded the world's first mental health clinic for normally functioning children and for elderly individuals. She managed the psychology laboratory at Stanford University and was a founder of the Indiana Academy of Science.
1909 - The first surgical transplant of a human nerve was accomplished by Walter Jacoby of Munich. A 4.5-cm segment was transplanted into the hand of a 35-year-old manual laborer, Helmut Mitschke.
1915 - Sibylle Korsch Escalona was born. Escalona was a clinical child psychologist best known for her longitudinal studies of the correlation between measures of infant behavior and performance at later ages.
1922 - Irvin Rock was born. Rock is noted for experiments in learning, sensation, and perception. Rock has concentrated on perceptual constancies and on interactions between sense modalities. His pivotal experiment demonstrating one-trial learning of paired-associateslists is often cited.
1980 - In its ruling on Parents in Action on Special Education v. Hannon, the U.S. District Court decided that intelligence tests used in the schools for special education placement were not culturally biased against African-American children. The court examined each item on the tests used in the Chicago schools and concluded that nine items on the three tests were "sufficiently suspect" but this number did not invalidate the use of the tests.
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The mission of the Davidson College Psychology Department is to provide students with an outstanding education in all aspects of the science and practice of psychology. As committed teachers, researchers, practitioners, and advisers, we offer our students a rigorous curriculum of courses, research opportunities, and field experiences, combined with individualized mentoring. Thus are our students fully prepared to use their knowledge of psychology to flourish and to reach their highest level of professional attainment in their lives after Davidson. Critical to this mission, the department continuously works to maintain its standing as a nationally recognized center of psychological research and scholarship by supporting, encouraging, and facilitating the professional development of its faculty and staff. As psychologists who are dedicated to contributing to our discipline, we maintain a positive climate of collegiality, collaboration, high standards, and overall daily excellence within the department, from which our faculty as well as our students benefit both personally and professionally.
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