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Head’s Up! Department of Psychology May 1, 2015 Graduate STAR Award Congratulations to Sarah Germain, winner of the Graduate Student STAR Award in Psychology for 2015. The award recognizes outstanding academic performance together with demonstrated excellence in service, teaching, and research. Thank you, Faculty of Arts! Oh, the places you’ll go …! Congratulations to the recipients of Graduate Student Conference Travel and Dean’s Office Awards Canadian Psychology Association/ Ottawa Brooke Beatie, Matthew Bernstein, Sarah Germain, Jennifer Klauninger, Karen O’Brien, Matthew Quesnel, Ben Schellenberg Digestive Disease Week/ Washington, DC Clove Haviva International Meeting for Autism Research/ Salt Lake City Roxanne Boily, Lindsay McCombe Association for Psychological Science/ New York Erin Buckels, Kristene Cheung International Conference on Comparative Cognition/ Melbourne, Florida Dawson Clary International Convention of Psychological Science/ Amsterdam Ivanna Lukie, Dr. Richard Kruk Canadian Psychological Association Certificates of Excellence For outstanding achievements made by students at all levels of study, in each Canadian department of psychology. Certificates are awarded each year to recognize the best undergraduate, masters and doctoral theses. Congratulations to honours students Sarah Froese, Janique Fortier, and Jeremiah Buhler; masters students Katelin Neufeld, Tiffany Lazar, and Patricia Parker; and doctoral students Amy De Jaeger, Brenda Stoesz, and Natalie Mota on these awards. W. N. Ten Have Award Congratulations to Sarah Froese (advisor: Dr. Jacquie Vorauer), winner of the W. N. Ten Have Award for the most outstanding honours thesis in Psychology in 2015

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Head’s Up! Department of Psychology May 1, 2015

Graduate STAR Award

Congratulations to Sarah Germain, winner of the Graduate Student STAR Award in Psychology for 2015. The award recognizes outstanding academic performance together with demonstrated excellence in service, teaching, and research.

Thank you, Faculty of Arts! Oh, the places you’ll go …! Congratulations to the recipients of Graduate Student Conference Travel and Dean’s Office Awards Canadian Psychology Association/ Ottawa Brooke Beatie, Matthew Bernstein, Sarah Germain, Jennifer Klauninger, Karen O’Brien, Matthew Quesnel, Ben Schellenberg Digestive Disease Week/ Washington, DC Clove Haviva International Meeting for Autism Research/ Salt Lake City Roxanne Boily, Lindsay McCombe Association for Psychological Science/ New York Erin Buckels, Kristene Cheung International Conference on Comparative Cognition/ Melbourne, Florida Dawson Clary International Convention of Psychological Science/ Amsterdam Ivanna Lukie, Dr. Richard Kruk

Canadian Psychological Association Certificates of Excellence

For outstanding achievements made by students at all levels of study, in each Canadian department of psychology. Certificates are awarded each year to recognize the best undergraduate, masters and doctoral theses. Congratulations to honours students Sarah Froese, Janique Fortier, and Jeremiah Buhler; masters students Katelin Neufeld, Tiffany Lazar, and Patricia Parker; and doctoral students Amy De Jaeger, Brenda Stoesz, and Natalie Mota on these awards.

W. N. Ten Have Award

Congratulations to Sarah Froese (advisor: Dr. Jacquie Vorauer), winner of the W. N. Ten Have Award for the most outstanding honours thesis in Psychology in 2015

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Next Up ... Chrissy Chubala, “Scale Invariance of Distributed Learning,” Ph.D. thesis proposal, Thursday, May 21, at 9:30 am, in P412 Duff Roblin

Prairie Undergraduate Conference Presenters

The University of Winnipeg Psychology Department held its 34th Annual Prairie Undergraduate Research Conference on April 24. Our department co-sponsored the event, which featured presentations by the following U of M students: Elena Bilevicius, Julie Comte, Jeremiah Buhler, Allison Dyck, Sarah Froese, Jona Frohlich, Charlotte Leferink, Katrina McKenty, Lindsey Nadon, Marcello Nesca, Trinda Penniston, Corey Petsnik, Kevin Solar, Alexis Unrau, and Bernardo Vilhena

The Latest Findings Congratulations to Doug Alards-Tomalin, Alexander C. Walker, Alexa Kravetz, & Launa C. Leboe-McGowan on their recently accepted paper: Numerical Context and Time Perception: Contrast Effects and the Perceived Duration of Numbers.

The next issue of Head’s Up! will appear on Monday, May 18, 2015. News to relate? Don’t hesitate! Send it to Sue at [email protected]

The Latest Theses Congratulations to the following students who successfully defended a thesis or proposal in April, 2015! Jaime Leung, Shaping Phonetic Performance in Second Language Learners, Final M.A. defense, April 8 Christine Sousa, “Development of a Computerized Task to Examine Differential Acquisition of Operant Responding in Autism Using Social and Non-social Discriminative Stimuli,” Final M.A. defense, April 20 Sarah Germain, “Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Meta-Analysis,” Ph.D. proposal defense, April 27 Ben Schellenberg, “Passionately Motivated Reasoning,” Final Ph.D. defense, April 28

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Scenes from the Psychology Honours Celebration Dinner, April 24, 2015