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The Centre for Writers will be hosting various workshops on a variety of topics and writing challenges, including APA style.  Please see this PDF for more information.

Andrea Dalton's study shows that new university students might be thinking about exploring another rite of passage when they get to campus: the joy of sex. However, depending on their level of maturity, some students may find less joy than others. (more)

The 24th Annual Royce conference will be held on Friday, March 19. Adele Diamond from UBC will be the keynote speaker with invited presentations from Norman Brown and Connie Varnhagen.

Cognition Seminar. Feb 12, 3:00pm, BS-P319N. "TBA".

Cognition Seminar. Mar 5, 3:00pm, BS-P319N. "Is a fork a boy or girl?".

Our students are successful in winning major awards ($10,000 to $35,000/year) nationally (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC), provincially (Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta Ingenuity, Queen Elizabeth II), and locally (F.S. Chia). (more)

Pete Hurd and Adam Reddon have published several papers on lateralization of cerebral function in fish. They discovered that strength of hemispheric preference is related to personality traits like aggressiveness and this relationship is opposite in males and females. Their current work suggests a similar relationship holds in humans and the habenula provides a possible neural substrate. (more)