University of Pittsburgh

Brown Bag Lunches

Each of the department's core graduate programs hosts a series of informal lunchtime talks known as Brown Bags. This is a forum for both graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their ongoing work.

Brown Bags often feature faculty from other departments around the university, as well as faculty from Carnegie Mellon or visiting scholars.

All are welcome to attend.

Clinical | Cognitive | Developmental | Biological and Health

Each of the department's core graduate programs hosts a series of informal lunchtime talks known as Brown Bags. This is a forum for both graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their ongoing work. Brown Bags often feature faculty from other departments around the university as well as from Carnegie-Mellon University, as well as visiting scholars. All are welcome to attend.

Clinical Program Brown Bags

Fridays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square

9/4/09 Katherine Belendiuk , graduate student Concordance of Adolescent Reports of Friend Alcohol Use, Smoking, and Deviant Behavior as Predicted by Quality of Relationship and Demographic Variables
9/18/09 Jana Iverson, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
High-Risk Infants and the Early Identification of Autism
10/9/09 Beatriz Luna, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Immaturities in Brain Processes Underlying Motivation, Error, and Attention in Adolescent Cognitive Control
10/23/09 Kristin Long
graduate student
Siblings of Pediatric Cancer Patients: Stress, Coping, and Distress
11/6/09 Frank Pollick, PhD
University of Glasgow
TBA
11/13/09 Diana Whalen
graduate student
Pupillary Reactivity to Emotional Faces in Adolescents at High-Risk for Depression
12/4/09 Cecile Ladouceur, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Neurodevelopmental Vulnerability Markers of Bipolar Disorder

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Cognitive Program Brown Bags

Wednesdays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 9th Floor LRDC

9/9/09
2nd Floor Auditorium, LRDC
Walter Schneider, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping Brain Circuits with High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) for Cognitive Neuroscience and Medical Imaging
9/23/09

Natasha Tokowicz, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Professional Development Series: Elements of a Job Application

10/7/09 N/A Professional Development Series: Panel on the Job Search Process
10/14/09 Nicole Hill
graduate student
Looking for Failure and Success: Factors that Determine Dual-tasking Performance
10/21/09

Jessica Nelson
graduate student

Individual Differences in Patterns of Reading

10/28/09 Polina Vanyukov
graduate student
Examining Attention Allocation in Gaze-Contingent Visual Search Tasks Using Diffusion Models
11/4/09 Erika E. Forbes, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Adolescence without the Fun: Examining Reward Function in Youth with Depression
11/11/09 Michal Balass
graduate student
Uh-oh! I Made a mistake: ERP correlates of Error Detection in a Semantic Categorization Task
11/18/09 TBA TBA
12/2/09 Daniel Belenky
graduate student
TBA
12/9/09 Kristine Wilckens
graduate student
TBA

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Developmental Program Brown Bags

Thursdays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square

Joint Clinical-Developmental talks are held on Fridays, 12-1, and are listed in italics.

9/4/09 Katherine Belendiuk
graduate student
Concordance of Adolescent Reports of Friend Alcohol Use, Smoking, and Deviant Behavior as Predicted by Quality of Relationship and Demographic Variables
9/17/09 Maira Roazzi
graduate student
Exploring Adults' Intuitions on Supernatural Agents: A Study of Mind, Soul, and Spirit
10/2/09

Sarah Ordaz
graduate student

10/9/09 Beatriz Luna, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Immaturities in Brain Processes Underlying Motivation, Error, and Attention in Adolescent Cognitive Control
10/15/09 Dan Hufnagle, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Individual Differences in Speech Categorization and Autistic Traits
10/23/09 Kristin Long
graduate student
Siblings of Pediatric Cancer Patients: Stress, Coping, and Distress
11/5/09 Tanner Wallace (Re)Defining Validity in Effectiveness Evaluation
11/13/09 Diana Whalen
graduate student
Pupillary Reactivity to Emotional Faces in Adolescents at High-Risk for Depression
11/19/09 Elisa Krackow, PhD
West Virginia University
Improving and Distinguishing the Reliability of Eyewitness Reports
12/4/09 Cecile Ladouceur, PhD TBA
12/10/09 JeeWon Cheong TBA
1/7/09 Stephanie Davis
graduate student
TBA

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Biological and Health Program Brown Bags

Fridays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square

9/11/09 N/A Program Welcome
9/25/09 Stephen Manuck, PhD The Utility of Animal Models in Translational Research
10/16/09 Michael Sayette, PhD Magic Bullet…Or Just Pretty Faces? Use of Facial Coding to Study Addiction
10/30/09 Thomas Kamarck, PhD Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Tool for Social Epidemiology
11/20/09 Peter Gianaros, PhD Application of Brain Imaging Methods in Health Neuroscience Research
12/11/09 Karen Matthews, PhD TBA

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Social Brown Bag Archives

 

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