Some exciting and important changes have been taking place with Psi Beta. Now is your time to take action! Now that the spring semester is in full swing and your chapters are busy holding meetings and events on your campuses and in your regions, it is time for your efforts to be recognized.
Read what other chapters have been doing. There are many great ideas for chapter service projects, guest speakers, raising funds, conducting research, educational field trips, and more.
DP2kB is a leadership and mentoring program designed for ethnic minority honor students attending community colleges. DP2kB occurs two days prior to and two days during the American Psychological Association (APA) convention and offers full grants for out-of-state students and partial grants for local students admitted into the program. This year the program is in Toronto, Canada, August 4 – 7, 2009.
Listing of all new members joined since July 2008, available for online reading.
Following the advent of Facebook and MySpace in 2004, social networking sites have taken a central role in the lives of people from across all walks of life. In fall 2008, Psi Beta launched pages on these popular sites as a way of offering members across the country an opportunity to interact.
During the annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Toronto this August, Psi Beta is sponsoring distinguished speaker Phil Zimbardo, hosting an outstanding symposium on “Facilitating Student Transitions,” and serving on PT@CC’s “Innovations in Teaching” panel. Psi Beta also has an outstanding program prepared for the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) meeting in San Francisco this coming May. See the details here…
The APS 21st Annual Convention will be held May 22 – 25, 2009, in San Francisco, CA. The meeting is a great opportunity to network, present your latest findings, and learn about other cutting-edge work being done in your area and in related areas of psychology.
This year, the Eastern Psychological Association conference will be March 6th and 7th in downtown Pittsburgh. The programming choices give lots of options for conference participants. Of particular note are several sessions which are being sponsored by Psi Beta.
Portland, Oregon, will be our host for the upcoming 89th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association (WPA), April 23-26, 2009. Psi Beta will be sponsoring several sessions which are sure to highlight the great successes of our students and the work of our colleagues.
