JOBS: School of Psychology, University of Ottawa (Canada)

The School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa is inviting applications for a tenure-track full-time faculty position in geropsychology.

Although we have a preference for candidates in clinical geropsychology, we would be open to excellent candidates without clinical training. The clinical candidates must be eligible for registration with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. The Faculty of Social Sciences comprises nine departments, schools, and institutes, which offer undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs in both English and French. With its 7,000 students, 250 full-time professors, and wide array of programs and research centers, the Faculty of Social Sciences plays a key role at the heart of the University of Ottawa. Its graduate students are supervised by excellent researchers and undertake cutting-edge research in the Faculty's master's and Ph.D. programs.

Duties: Teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels Supervising Masters and Ph.D. candidates Conducting research and publishing activities Participating in the University's academic and administrative activities Other activities as specified in the collective agreement

Qualifications: Completed Ph.D. in Psychology Demonstrated excellence in teaching Strength of the publication and research track record in the field

Bilingualism: The University of Ottawa is a bilingual institution, and all professors in the Faculty of Social Sciences must be actively bilingual to gain tenure. Fluency in French and English is required at the time of hiring. The University of Ottawa offers second-language training to staff members and their spouses.

Hiring level: The hiring level is open.

Hiring conditions and salary: These are set by the current collective agreement. Positions are subject to budgetary approval.

Starting date: July 1st, 2009.

Consideration of applications will begin on April 1st, 2009, and will continue until the positions are filled.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, according to government policy, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Equity is a University of Ottawa policy; women, Aboriginal peoples, members of visible minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Applicants are requested to submit, as soon as possible, a curriculum vitae, a letter indicating your teaching and research experience and interests, an indication of your French and English language abilities, a copy of your main scientific publications and teaching evaluations, and ask three referees to send confidential letters of recommendation directly to:

Dr. Alain Desrochers Assistant Director School of Psychology Lamoureux Hall, University of Ottawa P.O Box 450, Station A Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KlN 6N5 E-mail: Alain.Desrochers@uottawa.ca

The ads are posted at: http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/assets/pdf/postes/psy-fra-fev09.pdf

http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/assets/pdf/postes/psy-eng-feb09.pdf

FUNDING: New NHSC Loan Repayment Funds Available to Psychologists

FYI.

APA Education Government Relations Office Information Alert

New Funding Available for Psychologists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program

In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) signed by the President on February 17, 2009, $500 million was set aside to address health professions workforce shortages across the nation. $300 million of the $500 million will be going to the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Of the monies allocated to NHSC, almost $200 million will be directed to loan repayment awards for new applications and renewals. $75 million will remain available specifically for loan repayment renewals in 2011. ARRA also allocated $24 million for new NHSC Scholarships and $20 million for state loan repayment programs to be allocated by states. NOTE: Psychologists are eligible for the loan repayment program but not the scholarship program.

This new money could potentially fund 4,000 new loan repayment awards, which would double the number of clinicians participating in the NHSC.

There is a very short time period to fill these spots, only 18 months, and so the NHSC plans to fill the positions as soon as possible. Applications will be available in April and will be evaluated on a rolling basis throughout the year. Because of the additional monies, the NHSC expects that institutions with very low Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) scores will now become eligible for NHSC scholars and loan repayors.

For further information on the NHSC Loan Repayment Program visit: http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/members/loan_repayors/

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INFO: IOM requesting comments on priorities for comparative effectiveness research

During its meetings this past weekend, the Committee on Aging (CONA) learned that APA has been invited to offer input to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) as it determines national priorities for comparative effectiveness research. The IOM has created a survey to collect information from APA members and other key stakeholders on their recommendations for research priorities. The survey tool for you to complete is available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TJWoo0PwELoAqyfwdN4zqQ_3d_3d The data collection will continue until March 27, 2009.

APA President James Bray provided comments at an IOM meeting last weekend on this topic focusing his remarks on behavioral and psychosocial intervention research, all intervention research including behavioral and psychosocial measures across the lifespan, and more. CONA is submitting comments as a committee and as individuals, and would like to encourage you to submit comments of your own especially those specific to aging research. The more the merrier!

Thanks, in advance, for your help! Debbie

Deborah DiGilio| Director, Office on Aging Public Interest Directorate American Psychological Association 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 Tel: (202) 336-6135 | Fax: (202) 336-6040 email: ddigilio@apa.org | www.apa.org/pi/aging
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Re: JOBS: Georgia Tech postdoctoral positions

Dear colleagues,

It now appears we will have 2 postdoctoral positions, one available as early as May 1 (but more likely June 1), and the other available Nov 1. Please make your students and recent PhD colleagues aware of the following opportunity.

Thanks, Chris

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN COGNITIVE AGING

The Cognitive Aging Program in the School of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology will have 1-2 openings for postdoctoral Fellows on its NIH-sponsored training grant starting in summer, 2009 (contingent upon an anticipated renewal of the training grant by NIH). Postdoctoral trainees work with core faculty members in the Cognitive Aging Program including: Fredda Blanchard-Fields - social cognition, emotion regulation, everyday problem solving; Audrey Duarte – neuroscience of memory; Arthur Dan Fisk - attention, human factors, applied cognition; Christopher Hertzog - memory, metacognition, intelligence; Wendy A. Rogers - human factors, applied cognition, attention and learning; Anderson D. Smith - episodic memory, animal models; Daniel H. Spieler - attention, language processing, modeling; Paul Verhaeghen – attention, speed of processing, working memory. There are also other faculty members affiliated with our training program who can collaborate with postdocto! ral fellows. More information about faculty interests and the School of Psychology can be located at http://www.psychology.gatech.edu. Fellowships are restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents. To apply, please send a vitae, publications, a letter of application identifying possible matches to faculty mentors, and three reference letters by April 1, 2009 to Christopher Hertzog; School of Psychology; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA 30332-0170. Georgia Institute of Technology is a unit of the University System of Georgia and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

JOBS: Post-doc at Columbia University, Center for Decision Sciences

Excellent post-doc opportunity at Columbia with Eric Johnson, Elke Weber, and Yaakov Stern. This one more focused on cognitive aging. Please direct inquiries to Amy Krosch (ak2562@columbia.edu).

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Columbia University's Center for the Decision Sciences is looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow for a period of a minimum of one year, renewable for one or two more years, with a start date of between June and September of 2009

The main responsibility will be to carry out research related to cognition and memory with an emphasis on decision making and the construction of preferences across the lifespan, the focus of a National Institute of Aging grant, under the supervision of Professors Eric Johnson, Elke Weber, and Yaakov Stern, This position is open to candidates with behavioral research experience, data analysis and modeling skills, and training in cognitive psychology or a related discipline, who have recently earned their PhD or who are expecting their doctorate in 2009. Prior work on a topic relevant to the psychology of decision making broadly defined would be useful. Training in any of the following areas would be a plus: cognitive assessment, structural equation modeling, neuropsychology, as well as neuroscience and fMRI research. Additionally, experience with the assessment of cognitive function in older adults and experience with on-line research, while not required, would also be valuable.

To apply, please send a CV, two letters of recommendation, reprints of published papers, and a cover letter describing your research interests. In your cover letter, please describe your research expertise, data analysis and modeling skills, cognitive assessment and neuroscience skills, and computer skills (including any experience with online research).

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Electronic applications (all parts as attachments to a single email) should be submitted to:

Amy Krosch ak2562@columbia.edu

Columbia University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer

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INFO: Workshop on Multilevel Modeling

Please share the following announcement with interested colleagues and students.

Patrick Curran and Daniel Bauer are conducting a workshop, Multilevel Linear Models, on June 1-5, 2009, at the Rizzo Conference Center of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Of particular interest to aging researchers, a large portion of the workshop is dedicated to the analysis of longitudinal data using multilevel models, also known as hierarchical linear models. A brief summary of the workshop follows. Greater detail, including registration information, can be found here: http://www.cbanalytics.org/multilevel.htm _____________________________________________________________________________________

THE WORKSHOP

Multilevel Linear Models is a five-day workshop focused on the application and interpretation of statistical models that are designed for the analysis of nested data structures. Nesting can arise from hierarchical data structures (e.g., siblings nested within family; patients nested within therapist), longitudinal data structures (repeated measures nested within individual), or both (repeated measures nested within patient and patient nested within therapist). It is well known that the analysis of nested data structures using traditional general linear models (e.g., ANOVA or regression) is flawed, oftentimes substantially so. In this workshop we provide a comprehensive exploration of multilevel linear models with topics ranging from introductory (e.g., random effects ANOVA, random effects regression, slopes as outcomes models, disentangling within- and between-group effects) to advanced (e.g., assessing mediation, modeling multivariate growth, and intensive longitudinal data! analysis). The general structure of each day is lecture-based instruction from 9:00 to 3:00 (with morning, lunch, and afternoon breaks), and separate break-out sessions from 3:00 to 5:00 focused on model estimation using SAS and SPSS. Although there is not a computer lab component to this workshop, we provide extensive live demonstrations are provided in SAS and SPSS. Further, participants are welcome to bring personal laptop computers to follow along with the software demonstrations. Finally, all data sets and computer code are provided to workshop participants to take at the completion of the course.

PRESENTERS

Patrick Curran received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in clinical psychology and is currently a Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Daniel Bauer received his Ph.D. from the UNC-Chapel Hill in developmental psychology and is currently an Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Drs. Curran and Bauer have both published extensively on multilevel modeling and longitudinal data analysis, and their previous workshops on this topic have been well received.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information, including a detailed syllabus and registration information, is available at http://www.cbanalytics.org/multilevel.htm.

NIH Challenge Grants -- New Information for OBSSR Challenge Topics

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health New Information http://obssr.od.nih.gov/recovery/index.aspx

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) has posted on its HomePage Specific Challenge Topics that OBSSR developed and the NIH Institutes/Centers participating in each topic. Be sure to review this information for the complete list of participating Institutes/Centers. Applications must be relevant to at least one of the participating Institutes/Centers listed on the OBSSR HomePage. See the above provided URL. For questions about Specific Challenge Topics, see the contact persons posted on the OBSSR HomePage. We will do our best to refer you to the appropriate individuals at the participating NIH Institutes/Centers (ICs). For general information on OBSSR’s implementation of NIH Challenge Grants, contact:

Deborah H. Olster, Ph.D. Deputy Director Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) National Institutes of Health 301-402-1147 olsterd@od.nih.gov

CONTACT PERSONS: In yesterday’s email, we provided the contact information for Sally A. Amero at the Center for Scientific Review in regard to Scoring, Review, and Appeals. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT HER REGARDING RESEARCH TOPICS. For Research Topics, contact the individuals listed under the topics at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/Omnibus.pdf or at http://obssr.od.nih.gov/recovery/index.aspx The application due date is April 27, 2009.