TO:        Psychology Department Faculty, Staff and Students

FROM:   Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis, Department Chair

RE:        2009 Graduate Student Orientation – August 27, 2009

Welcome to the Psychology Department! We are excited that you have chosen to pursue your graduate studies with us. We hope that your time here will be full of opportunities that will challenge and enrich your lives. You can expect our best efforts in the classroom, advising, and research and our professional and financial support of your efforts. Our goal is to provide you with a combination of rigor and fairness throughout your stay with us. In return, we will ask for your best effort, mutual respect, and openness to feedback. To RSVP, please email Darby Wiggins no later than Monday, August 17, 2009.

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ORIENTATION SCHEDULE

9:00 – 9:45 Group Orientation for all TA’s*
Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis, Dr. Linda Chrosniak and Dr. Pat Wanschurca
Innovation Hall, Room 105

9:45 – 10:30 PSYC 300 and 301 TA Workshop*
PSYC 300 - Dr. Pat Wanschura, Innovation Hall, Room 136
PSYC 301 - Dr. Linda Chrosniak, Innovation Hall, Room 134
All Other TA's - Innovation Hall, Room 105

10:30 – 12:00 Welcome remarks from Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis, Department Chair
Innovation Hall, Room 105

12:00 – 1:30  BBQ Lunch
Johnson Center (JC) East Lounge
Vegetarian options are available by request.

1:30 - 3:00 Program Orientation Locations
Applied Developmental – JC Room G, Third Floor
Biopsychology – JC Room D, Third Floor
Clinical – JC Room C, Third Floor
Human Factors/Applied Cognition – ARCH Lab, DKH 2070
School/CAGS – JC Room F, Third Floor
Industrial Organizational -  JC Room E, Third Floor

4:00 - TBD College of Humanities and Social Sciences Orientation, Center for the Arts

* PSYC 300/301 TA workshops are for those with teaching assignments in these courses.