Laura Knight and Lisa Newell, Department of Psychology, are currently conducting a study of parents’ knowledge of child development. They are looking for moms and dads with at least one child under age five to participate.

Dr. Krys Kaniasty of the Department of Psychology gave the invited keynote address at the forty-sixth annual conference of the Australian Psychological Society.

Dr. Pearl Berman and Dr. Maureen McHugh will discuss a new paradigm for teaching General Psychology and how this paradigm is being extended into other psychology courses at IUP on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.

The conference, held October 14 and 15, 2011, at Kutztown University, is a yearly gathering designed to foster community and allow for members of the psychology departments at the fourteen state universities to share ideas and research findings.

IUP’s chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, is sponsoring a Career Panel on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in room 114 of Uhler Hall.

The Department of Psychology opens the Fall 2011 Brown Bag Series with a discussion of Desire2Learn on Wednesday, September 28, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. in Uhler Hall, Room 118.

Physical and psychological safety should be a basic right. In support of this, Dr. Pearl Berman and Dr. Maureen McHugh, Department of Psychology, have joined a national network of violence prevention professionals.