University of Victoria | Psychology Organization of Students

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Mar

2012

Volunteer Research Assistant Opportunity:

Sumin Na: 2nd year master's student, Clinical psychology, Dr. Chris Lalonde

Research category: Cultural psychology with a focus on identity development

Job Description: I'm looking for students to help out transcribing interviews that I've completed for my project. Students who wish to volunteer will be transcribing interviews that are about 20-30 minutes each. Hours are flexible and students can take the work home.

Job Type: Volunteer

Applicable skills: If you are a fast typer, it's definitely an asset!

Job Requirements:
- Students who will commit at least 3hrs/week until mid/late April.

Job Benefits:
- Great way to get some research experience - I will also be more than happy to talk about questions students might have about doing research or graduate school

Contact info: suminna@uvic.ca Application deadline: ASAP, March 30th at the latest
The deadline for Early Bird Signup for the Autism Walk will be extended for March 20th. If you register for the Autism Walk before the 20th, registration cost is $20.

Mar

2012

Thanks for all your support by coming out to the Spring Formal and Psychology-Philosophy debate.

PsychOS will be participating and supporting the Autism Awareness Walk on April 15th. If you would like to join us, download the following:
Registration Form: Download

Waiver: Download

Pledge Form: Download

We are holding a bake sale to support "Team Niehaus" in the Autism Awareness walk. Come out and buy something to support Autism Awareness, or to the walk on April 15th.

Also, PsychOS would like to thank the anonymous donor who donated to assist students with lesser means with the registration fee for the Autism Walk.

PsychOS is also holding a "Capture the Freud" game against the Sociology undergraduate course union (BOSS), so help us crush the sociologists on March 23 at 4:30 on the Quad.

Feb

2012

On February 6th, UVic Psi Chi will be presenting Taught, a series of talks by professors about their areas of expertise. More information can be found on the Psi Chi Website

There is an honour information session on February 7th, if you are at all interested in doing honours, come out and check out what you can do.

We will also be selling psychology clothing again, you can place your clothing orders with us in the psychology office from February 20th-24th from 10am-4pm.

Come support The Ride for the Cure by coming out to our Spring Formal. It is on February 24th at Upstairs, tickets are $10 and come with a free drink. They will also be on sale from February 20th-24th from 10am-4pm in the psychology office.

UVic Psi Chi and PsychOS are planning a volunteer fair on February 21st. It will be from 1-4pm in the Michele Pujol room in the SUB. If you are looking for new opportunities in psychology, feel free to check out some of the positions that are open.

Jan

2012

There are a couple of new positions available for research assistants. The information is available to download here. To download it, right click on the link and select 'save link as'.

Nov

2011

We now have psychology clothing, we are selling t-shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants. The due date for order forms is going to be November 19^th. You can order it at the psychology office at Cornett A171.

We are also planning a bar night on November 19^th it will be a 80's Rock theme. We would also like to support our Vikes Girls Rugby team, of which two executives, Jessica Moretto and Jesse Olynyk are a part of. Their upcoming games should be updated on our events page regularly.

Oct

2011

Thanks for a great turnout for the Tight and Bright Pub Crawl. Hope you guys all had a great time, thank you to all the people who helped out with the jobs. The photos from the pub crawl should be up on facebook now, thanks to Samantha Thom for being a great photographer.

Sep

2011

We are holding a pub crawl on September 23, the theme will be "Tight and Bright", and we will be going first to Sopranos, then Metropolis night club, and ending at Touch lounge. It will start at 7pm, tickets are $15 dollars, and come with 2 free drinks and a treat bag.

Sep

2011

Welcome back from your summer vacations, I hope you all had a great break! We hope to have lots of new additions to the club this year and are planning lots of new activities. We also have some new executives this year, so lets congratulate Marie and Megan as our new co-presidents, Kahlil as the new vice-president, Terry as the Psi Chi liason, John and Derek as directors at large, Claire as the treasurer, Jesse as director of communications, Zoe as director of advertising, Dr. Jeffery Niehaus as our faculty mentor, and I'm Ryan, your glorious webmaster.

If you are not yet a member of PsychOS, we meet in at 2:30pm on Wednesday, in Cornett B145. Our first meeting will be held on September 14th, 2011. You do not have to be a psychology major in order to come to the meetings, so come out and meet our members and see what we're all about. You can also see us in the PsychOS/Psi Chi office in Cornett 171.

We are also busy trying to set up events for the school year. In addition to the pub crawls, this year we want to have some other events that the first year students can go to. If you have any ideas about what we could do this year, just ask us or e-mail us at psychos@uvic.ca