April 2009
The Department is pleased to announce that Claude Charpentier has been hired on a tenure-track position starting July 1st, 2009. Claude is well known to students as she has been teaching on sessional positions since 2004. Claude will continue to deliver first class teaching and will stabilize and expand our revamped Clinical program.
The Department is also very happy to announce the coming of two young, dynamic and very promising teachers/researchers for the 2009-10 academic year. Philip Cooper completed his Ph.D. at McMaster and he was until recently teaching at Concordia. He will be teaching Intro, Personality and Social Psychology. Iuliana Baciu is in the process of completing her Ph.D. at Wilfrid Laurier (expected July 2009) and she will be teaching the developmental courses. A warm welcome to both of them!
April 2009
Congratulations to Claude who received her second SRC divisional teaching award over the past few years. Students nominate professors for these awards because they feel that contact with this professor has changed their lives in a meaningful way. It is more than fitting that Claude received this award on the night where she also secured a tenure-track position in the Department. Well done Claude!
April 2009
The 2009 crop of Honours students presented their final results on April 17th. Presenters were Elisabet Liskovoi, Tyler Burleigh, Scott Nugent, Kathleen Joseph, Chris Lamontagne-Blouin, Diana Cardenas, Will Boire, Catherine Gendreau, Dominique Jutras-Cote and Alicia Rubel. Congratulations to all and best of luck in graduate school (or enjoy your sabbatical year)!
On April 2nd, Dr. Charpentier will present her work on “Cultural vulnerability, social distance and reasonable accommodation in the Eastern Townships”. The talk starts at 6 PM and will be held in Hamilton 301. Everyone is invited to attend.
March 2009
Will Boire, Lisa Liskovoi, Kathleen Joseph, Tyler Burleigh, Alicia Rubel and Scott Nugent attended the conference and presented posters. Professor Walter Marcantoni as well as recent Bishop’s graduates Catherine Sansfacon, Myriam Chiasson, Melanie Provost and Annie Benoit also made presentations. There is talk that Bishop’s could host SQRP in the near future. Stay tuned.
March 2009
On March 26th, in the context of Bishop’s Fourth Annual Research Week, Dr. McKelvie will present his work entitled “Oaf(s) of office?: Interpreting speech acts at the swearing in of President Barack Obama”. The talk is part of a session that runs from 11:30 AM to 1 PM. starts at 1 PM that will be held in the Old Library. Everyone is invited to attend.
March 2009
Psychology once more was heavily involved in Research Week, now in it’s 4th edition. Indeed, 10 out of 27 presented posters came from Psychology! Presenters were: Elisabet Liskovoi, Laure Pitfield, Alicia Rubel, Chris-Lamontagne Blouin, Scott Nugent, Tyler Burleigh, Diana Cardenas, Will Boire, Catherine Rioux and Kathleen Joseph. Tyler Burleigh was awarded the best poster award (and 250 dollars!) for his work entitled “Terror management theory and human affect in response to computer generated voices”.
March 2009
Practicum II is arguably the most important course of the Clinical Psychology Program, as it allows students to leave the classroom and gain applied experience in a wide variety of clinical settings. Again this year, the Practicum II students and their professor, Dr. Claude Charpentier, organized an evening to let students, and especially younger Clinical Psychology students, know about the incredible experiences they had had in schools, hospitals, cliniques and rehab centers. Avalon Henry, Melanie Black, Nicolas Larochelle, Kathleen Joseph, Catherine Gendreau, Kaleigh Hood, Scott Nugent and Alicia Rubel were unanimous in saying that this was an emotional and life-changing ride. After the presentations, the evening turned into a roast in Honor of the founder of the Clinical Psychology program, Dr. Anton de Man, who will be retiring at the end of June. Chris Phillips was hilarious in his impersonation of Anton and Dr. McKelvie delivered a superb homage to his friend and colleague of 30 years. Thanks to all the Practicum II students for a wonderful evening.
The famous Canadian psychologist, Donald Olding Hebb, who holds an honorary doctorate from Bishop’s, conducted many important studies and contributed theoretically to the development of neuroscience. One of Hebb’s famous lines of work involved sensory deprivation, in which he investigated the mental effects of having sensory input cut off for long periods of time. However, there are rumours that Hebb was connected to and perhaps even funded by the C.I.A., which was interested in the implications of the results for brainwashing.
Are these rumours true?
Come to this talk on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 10 a.m. in N2 and find out!
McGill’s Great Psychologist
D. O. Hebb and the Study of Sensory Deprivation: The X-38 Project
Subtitle: Did Hebb work for the C.I.A.?
November 2008
The five Bishop's students combined ther talents and knowledge to write and perform a play promoting healthy eating. Boring you might say? Well, not according to third and fourth graders at Sherbrooke Elementary School who thought it was "really cool!". Lisa Liskovoi, Avril Beaubien, Laure Pitfield, Catherine Proulx-Bourque and Kai Barker formed their own production company "Bishop's FoodFun Productions" and spent the late summer and fall writing "Willow vs. Candilicious: a journey to healthy eating", an interactive play aimed at promoting the benefits of a healthy balanced diet. Their target audience was elementary school children, but everyone who saw the play enjoyed it -including parents, teachers, and a number of dignitaries from Bishop's University and the Eastern Townships School Board. By the end of the play the children were shouting out correct answers to tough questions about nutrition in order to defeat the evil Candilicious' plan to replace all the nutritious food with candy! Dr. Claude Charpentier who supervised the project said, "We all like to eat, so it is never too soon to learn to make good food choices. We forget that eating is a social activity and that lessons about eating well can be warmed up and served with laughter. I'm very proud of what our community-minded students accomplished by blending difficult nutritional content with a menagerie of characters who delighted everybody with their antics".
November 2008
A professor at the University of Montreal and member of the CERNEC, Dr. Saint-Amour is an expert in the sensory and perceptual systems. He will present his latest results on the stunning “McGurk” audio-visual illusion on Monday 24 November at 8:00 in N-5. Everyone is welcome to attend.
November 2008
Canadian hero Romeo Dallaire spoke at Bishop’s on November 11th. While his primary aim was to promote both National and personal activism against the atrocities being committed today in Africa and elsewhere, he highlighted that he was also motivated to help people better understand post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His account of a military corporal in his own house suddenly reliving, in excruciating detail, the atrocities he had witnessed years before was harrowing. PTSD remains poorly understood and consequently treatment remains difficult.
November 2008
The Psychology Club rented the Uplands Museum and organized a great event. Wine (bottles, not boxes!) and a selection of fine cheeses were served as over 70 students and professors listened to great music and got to know each other better. Organizer Kaleigh Hood was pleased and she promised “more wine” for the next event.
November 2008
On Thursday, November 6th, Bishop’s welcomed Ron MacKay, Canada’s first psychological profiler, to campus for a free, open-to-all presentation organized by the Psychology Club. The turn-out was spectacular as students, professors, and anybody who was curious about what really goes on in psychological profiling (forget CSI, this is the real thing!) were there with great enthusiasm - there wasn’t an empty seat in the house! Questions from the audience were flowing from beginning to end as Mr. MacKay shared his experiences from his more than 35 years investigating major crime. Thank you to all who made this presentation possible and for those of you who made it out that night! Keep your eyes open for more fabulous speakers coming our way next semester!
September 2008
An article by Dr. Bacon and colleagues at the University of Montreal [Functional reorganization of the human auditory pathways following hemispherectomy: An fMRI demonstration, Neuropsychologia, 2008] has been selected and reviewed by “Faculty of 1000 Medicine”, a revolutionary literature awareness service that identifies and evaluates the most important articles published in Medicine. The article's identification and inclusion provides recognition from peers of its scientific merit and of the positive contribution it makes to the medical literature.
July 2008
Bishop's University's Kerri Gibson, '04 researched the similarities between adult Anglophones and Francophones in Québec for her Honors dissertation. With the help and support of Dr. Stuart McKelvie and Dr. Anton de Man, the study was published in the U.S. Journal of Social Psychology in April 2008. This study is getting a lot of media attention as it confirms that personalities are very similar between Anglophones and Francophones in the Eastern Townships of Québec. One reason behind this may be that we share the same territory and lifestyle. The study also showed some differences in that Anglophones are more conservative, and Francophones tend to be more tough-minded.
May 2008
Mona Pirmoradi and Melanie Provost have been awarded NSERC summer scholarships to conduct research this summer under the supervision of Dr. Bacon. Mona will be using near-infrared spectroscopy to assess language development in babies in collaboration with Canada Research Chair Maryse Lassonde at the University of Montreal. Melanie will conduct a large scale study of the prevalence of congenital amusia in collaboration with Canada Research Chair Isabelle Peretz, also at the University of Montreal. Congratulations to both Mona and Melanie!
May 2008
Sincere congratulations to the amazing Psychology students who will now be representing Bishop’s in a variety of graduate programs: Gina Snelgrove (Otago. New Zealand), Matt Sigal (York), Mona Pirmoradi (Montreal), Arlie Belliveau (York), Melanie Provost (Montreal), Emilie Belleville (Sherbrooke), Mathilde Beaulieu-Lefebvre (Montreal), Brett Capstick (Carleton), Myriam Chiasson (Trois-Rivieres), Maxime Pelland (Montreal) and Evelyn Lacerte (Sherbrooke). Everybody who applied got in! Well done!
April 2008
Two outstanding Honours students in Neuroscience, Gina Snelgrove and Mathilde Beaulieu-Lefebvre, have received NSERC Master’s scholarships in the 2007-08 competition. Mathilde will pursue her studies in Neuropsychology at the University of Montreal while Gina will take her scholarship to the University of Otago in New Zealand! Congratulations Mathilde and Gina!
April 2008
Thirteen Honours students each gave a 15 minutes conference-like talk to present the results of their theses to students and faculty alike. The Dean of Social Sciences attended and was appreciative. The quality of the presentations was high and the event was followed by a tasty lunch at Shalimar.
March 2008
Honours students Gina Snelgrove and Myriam Chiasson presented posters at the SQRP and had the opportunity to discuss their results with over 400 delegates from all the Quebec Universities. They enjoyed their experience and encourage future Honours students to start gathering data early in the year so as to be able to submit abstracts to such conferences. Congratulations to Gina and Myriam!
Psychology Students to present their work at the International Congress of Psychology in Berlin.
January 2008
Honours students Mathew Bellhouse-King and Stephanie Kyle will have the chance to present their Honours theses, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Bacon, at the 29th International Congress of Psychology, in Berlin, in July of 2008. This international event only takes place every four years and is the biggest Psychology conference in the world.
Psychology Club Wine and Cheese a big hit.
January 2008
About 60 Psychology students and faculty gathered at the beautiful Speid Mansion in Lennoxville on February 7th. Fine wine and quality cheeses were served as people and a good time was had by all. Rumor has it that the fun continued at the Lion Pub until the wee hours of the morning.
Dr. Bacon to organize the 17th Scientific retreat of the Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (CERNEC).
January 2008
The annual meeting will take place in St-Sauveur on April 4-5, 2008. The theme will be Brain Plasticity and Reorganization and the keynote speaker will be Krish Sathian (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA). Approximately 150 participants are expected to attend.
Dr. Isabelle Peretz delivered a fascinating F.R. Scott lecture on "The Musical Brain"
November 8th, 2007
Students were sitting on the floor and on the windowsills as Dr. Isabelle Peretz (Department of Psychology; University of Montreal) delivered a fascinating F.R. Scott lecture on "The Musical Brain" in front of a record crowd. Dr. Peretz, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Musical Neurocognition, made a strong case for music as an instinct (rather than as a by-product of culture) and showed some of the most incredible musical cases that she has studied in her 20-plus years in the field. The crowd gasped as a man with perfect pitch sang "Happy Birthday" atrociously from memory, but perfecty when he was allowed to read the musical score. Dr. Peretz generously entertained questions for more than half an hour and it could have gone on forever if the moderator had not finally intervened. She said she found the faculty and students of the Psychology Department "irresistible" and that she had a great time at Bishop's!
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