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The Internship Forum will be held on Wednesday January 25, 2012 at 5:30-7:00pm in CCIS 1-140.

According to the 2011 QS rankings of universities, the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta ranked in the top 50 Psychology departments in the world.

The 26th Annual Royce conference will be held on Friday, March 2, 2012. Björn Brembs of Freie Universität Berlin will be the keynote speaker. The conference will also feature invited presentations by Marcia Spetch and Anthony Singhal. The submission form is now available.

Our graduate students are successful in winning major awards (over $10,000). In 2010, the Psychology Department was first across campus in per capita Tri-Council Master's awards (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC). (more)

Roger A. Dixon was awarded a 7-year renewal (2010-2017) of the Canada Research Chair. His federally endowed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cognition and Aging comes with a $1.4 million grant. Roger conducts interdisciplinary research on neurocognitive and biomedical aspects of normal aging, cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease.  (more)