From left to right: David Moscovitch, Winny Shen, Myra Fernandes, Joanne Wood, Igor Grossmann, Hilary Bergsieker, Colin MacLeod, Alex Huynh, and Ramona Bobocel. Photo taken by Feridun Hamdullahpur.
The Kitchener Record recently featured PhD candidate Robin Mazumder discussing the importance of bike lanes.
Dr. Colin MacLeod's research shows that people are more likely to remember things when they read them aloud. You can read about this and other tips to improve your memory in the recent article in Chatelaine magazine.
Almost forty years ago, UW Professor Pat Rowe founded one of Canada’s original graduate programs in I/O Psychology. She mentored over 75 graduate students – more than any other I/O Psychology professor in the country. Many of her former students went on to successful careers, becoming the who’s who of I/O Psychology in Canada.
Dr. Geoffrey Fong induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in Winnipeg on November 24, 2017. Congratulations Geoff!
FELLOWS
Who are they? They are over 2000 Canadian scholars, artists, and scientists, peer-elected as the best in their field. The fellowship of the RSC comprises distinguished men and women from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) just announced a $2.5 million Partnership Grant for a 7-year research initiative in support of gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
The Engendering Success in STEM research consortium is a unique partnership bringing together academic experts – including from UWaterloo’s Department of Psychology – on gender bias and diversity with elementary schools, camps, museums, universities, and industry leaders who share a commitment to increasing opportunities for girls and women in STEM.
From romantic dramas to tensions at work, we’re often better at working through other people’s problems than our own—while we may approach our friends’ problems with wise, clear-eyed objectivity, we often view our own problems through a personal, flawed, emotional lens.
But new research suggests that not everyone may struggle to reason wisely about their own personal problems. People who are motivated to develop the best in themselves and others don’t show this bias—they tend to reason just as wisely about their own problems as they do for others.
Congratulations Madison!