January 13, 2025 4:00 PMMemory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - “Memory Retrieval and Prediction during Language Processing”Hossein Karimi, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Mississippi State UniversitySomers Family Hall Room 216
January 14, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - (Master’s Defense) Title: Do All Facets of Psychological Wellbeing Predict Cognitive FunctionKarysa Britton, MA, MSSomers Family Hall RM 216
January 17, 2025 9:00 AMMemory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - “Investigating human infant knowledge with fMRI”Heather Kosakowski, Ph.D. Department of Psychology & Center for Brain Sciences Harvard University Somers Family Hall RM 216
January 21, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Practicum information sessionStudent discussion + RaquelSomers Family Hall RM 216
January 22, 2025 12:00 PMAging & Development - Enhancing Older Adults' Well-Being and Engagement Through Paid Work and VolunteeringCal Halvorsen, Brown SchoolSomers Family Hall RM 215
January 23, 2025 4:00 PMFMS COLLOQUIUM LECTURE SERIES - "DYNAMICS OF COMPREHENSION, MEMORY AND STORYTELLING"JEFFREY ZACKS WASHU, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCESSiegle Hall RM 306
January 24, 2025 1:00 PMSocial & Personality - Workshop on ESM and Momentary Assessment MethodsEmily WillrothSomers Family Hall RM 215
January 27, 2025 4:00 PMLifespan Development Job Talk - “Infants’ social expectations and social learning”Zoe Liberman, Ph.D. Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa BarbaraSomers Family Hall RM 216
January 28, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - PSC ResearchStudent and Faculty DiscussionSomers Family Hall RM 216
January 29, 2025 11:00 AMMemory & Cognition Special Talk-bDirect recordings of human place cells and traveling waves for memory mapping and cognitive enhancementJoshua Jacobs, Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurological Sciences Columbia University Somers Family Hall RM 216
January 29, 2025 12:00 PMAging & Development - The Oxytocin System’s Role in Socioemotional AgingBecca PolkSomers Family Hall RM 215
January 30, 2025 11:00 AMMemory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - Biopsychosocial pathways in dementia inequalitieLaura Zahodne, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of MichiganSomers Family Hall RM 216
January 31, 2025 1:00 PMSocial & Personality - The psychology of racial hierarchy: consequences for democracyXanni Brown, University of VirginiaZoom
January 31, 2025 5:30 PMSpecial screening of “The Cinema Within”A documentary about the psychology of film editing, with director Chad Freidrichs, director of "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" and "The Experimental City.” Freidrichs will take a few questions after the showing.Brown Hall, Room 100
February 03, 2025 4:00 PMMemory & Cognition Job Talk - Pathways to episodic memory: Cognitive & brain processes that shape what we rememberMaureen Ritchey, Ph.D. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Boston CollegeSomers Family Hall RM 216
February 04, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - No CSS; Installation of Jeffrey M. Zacks as the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & SciencesSomers Family Hall RM 216
February 05, 2025 11:00 AMMemory & Cognition Special Talk - Memory², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus farChristopher Madan, Ph.D. School of Psychology University of Nottingham - United KingdomSomers Family Hall RM 216
February 05, 2025 12:00 PMAging & Development - Closing the Science-to-Practice Gap for Treating Older Adults: User Centered DesignAnn Steffen, UMSLSomers Family Hall RM 215
February 05, 2025 4:00 PMBehavior, Brain, & CognitionMaverick Smith (Jeff’s lab) and Abhishek Dey (Wouter’s lab)Somers Family Hall RM 216
February 06, 2025 11:00 AMLifespan Development Job Talk - From the Cradle to the Grave: Tracking the Antecedents and Consequences of Relational Development across the LifespanWilliam Chopik, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Michigan State UniversitySomers Family Hall RM 216
February 11, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Emotion regulation in aging: Implications for clinical science.Derek Isaacowitz, PhDSomers Family Hall RM 216
February 12, 2025 4:00 PMBehavior, Brain, & Cognition - Leaders differ from their followers in dysfunctional personality traitsHillary Anger Elfenbein (Olin)Somers Family Hall RM 216
February 17, 2025 4:00 PMRobert L. Williams Lecture Series - The Psychology of Struggle and Hope: John Henryism and the Health of Black AmericansSherman A. James, Ph.D. Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy In the Sanford School of Public Policy Duke UniversityWilson 214
February 18, 2025 11:00 AMMemory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - Dynamics of attention and memory formation across time and developmentAlexandra Decker, Ph.D. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySomers Family Hall RM 216
February 18, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Measuring neuroplasticity in human development: Potential applications for improving mental health.Max Herzberg, PhD, Post-doctoral research associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, WUSMSomers Family Hall RM 216
February 19, 2025 12:00 PMAging & Development - Training grant trainee update brief talksSomers Family Hall RM 215
February 19, 2025 4:00 PMBehavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of attentional suppression in preventing distraction by salient stimuliNicholas Gaspelin (U. Missouri) Somers Family Hall RM 216
February 25, 2025 9:00 AMMaster's Defense - Learning-based strategic monitoring in prospective memoryMaddie ValdezSomers Family Hall RM 215
February 25, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Black Children's Joy and Educational JusticeSeanna Leath, PhD and SynClaire Arthur, MS, MASomers Family Hall RM 216
February 26, 2025 4:00 PMBehavior, Brain, & CognitionRachel Smith Peirce (Andy Butler’s lab) and Maddie Valdez (Julie’s lab)Somers Family Hall RM 216
February 28, 2025 1:00 PMSocial & PersonalityGraduate Interview Event (S&P Division Only)Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 04, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Supervisor information sessionStudent discussionSomers Family Hall RM 216
March 17, 2025 4:00 PMColloquium - Inattentional blindness in and out of the labDaniel Simons, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignWilson 214
March 18, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Better Suicide Risk Detection with the Columbia Protocol: Reducing Workload, Redirecting Scarce Resources and Saving LivesAdam M. Lesser, LCSW, Asst Prof of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University *Via Zoom - Mandatory for all clinical students***Zoom
March 24, 2025 4:00 PMMark Gold Lecture Series - The rise and rise of drug-induced psychosisSir Robin Murray, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatric Research King’s College, LondonWilson 214
March 25, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Translational and Cross-Species Approaches to Anhedonia: Implications for Treatment Development and StratificationDiego Pizzagalli, PhD, Prof of Psychiatry, Harvard; Director, McLean Imaging Center; Director, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLeanSomers Family Hall RM 216
April 01, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Faculty Flash TalksChad Sylvester, PhD, Deanna Barch, PhD, Ryan Bogdan, PhDSomers Family Hall RM 216
April 07, 2025 4:00 PMColloquium - Genetic Associations with Externalizing Behaviors in Nearly 4 Million PeopleKathryn Paige Harden, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin Wilson 214
April 08, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Debriefing the internship application processInternship-bound studentsSomers Family Hall RM 216
April 09, 2025 12:00 PMAging & Development - Beyond disability: Older adults’ perceptions of successful agingPayton RuleSomers Family Hall RM 215
April 15, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - Disability, Resilience, and Success in Internship Accredited Graduate ProgramsMolly Steinhoff, MA, Aaron Gorelik, MA, Payton Rule, BASomers Family Hall RM 216
April 22, 2025 4:00 PMClinical - (Master’s Defense) Title: Investigating inflammatory and environmental mechanisms in the relationship between maternal depression and toddler psychopathology symptoms.Margaret Redic, BS, BA.Somers Family Hall RM 216