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The Undergraduate Research Initiative announces two new funds for undergraduate student research: The Undergraduate Student Researcher Stipen and The Undergraduate Research Support Fund. More information and application forms are found here.

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.

Chris Sturdy recently appeared in the Edmonton Journal newspaper with the article title "U of A scientists know why the caged bird sings". Check out the article and his research webpage for more information.

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)

Elena Nicoladis has published several articles on gesture and language development in bilingual and monolingual children.  Her SSHRC/NSERC funded research challenges views about the symbolic nature of gestures and how bilinguals represent information in language.  Her finding that children assume gestures mean actions rather than objects challenges the view that children treat gestures and words as equally symbolic and may explain why they have difficulty interpreting number gestures. (more)