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Information for Instructors

Please direct students to the Participation for Extra Credit area on the Information for Participants page which will explain to them how to participate in the pool. Please contact the webmaster if you would like hard copies of the handout to distribute.

Students can create an online account for participation by visiting the UMD Research website. .

If you would like to have a representative of the human subjects committee visit your class to explain the procedures to your students, please let us know.

Be sure to tell your students how many credit hours they may earn for your class, and how these credit hours will influence the students’ course grades.

You may wish to tell or remind your students that when they participate in an experiment they gain credit hours. However, if they sign up for an experiment and do not show up at the time they signed up for (unless they cancel properly within 24 hours, following the instructions in the handout), then they lose credit hours from the extra points that they have accumulated for participating in experiments.

Also, please remind students that if they are earning credits for more than one class in the same semester, then they must assign those credits to each of the different classes (instructions for doing so are in the handout).

Experimental participation is limited to students who are 18 years of age or older. Students who are less than 18 years can gain extra credit in an alternative way – by writing short research reports. They should contact the webmaster.

The Sona system keeps track of all of the credit hours for your students. At the end of the semester, the credit hours earned by each of your students will be reported to you.

Any questions about the experimental participation should be directed to the Sona administrator.

Research

In the Department

fMRI grant proposal funded

A grant proposal submitted by NACS faculty for a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility on campus has been funded by the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program. This facility will substantially enhance our ability to conduct cutting edge research in human neuroscience and cognitive science. NACS faculty members come from a variety of departments including Bioengineering, Hearing and Speech, Human Development, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Psychology, and others.

Banneker-Key Scholars

The Banneker-Key Scholarship is the most prestigious and competitive scholarship that the University offers to incoming freshmen. The top tier of awards supplies the full cost of tuition, fees and room and board coupled with a book allowance for four years. The Psychology Department has 9 Banneker-Key Scholars among the incoming freshman class. This raises the total number of Banneker-Key Scholars in the departmenr to 33, more than 1/3 of the 95 Banneker-Key Scholars in all of BSOS.

Upcoming Events

DEC 1

Developmental Job Talk

Dr. Kathleen Corriveau will give a talk entitled "Children's selective trust in informants". Dr. Corriveau is a candidate for the position in the developmental area.

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