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August 21st, 2000 - Index of Canadian Internships

May 5th, 2000 - New Career Resources

March 23rd, 2000 - New Scholarships

February 25th, 2000 - Annual Report and AGM

February 16th, 2000 - Thesis Contest Winners

January 25th, 2000 - Tips On Publishing

January 7th, 2000 - New Scholarship

NEWS '99

August 21st, 2000 - Index of Canadian Internships

The Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Programs (CCPPP) has recently made available a list of Canadian Post-Doc Internship Placements. This is an excellent resource as it includes includes each site's web-address as well as well as noting which professional bodies have accredited the placement (CPA, APA, CCPPP, APPIC). A link to the index can be found at CCPPP's site, http://www.usask.ca/psychology/ccppp/can-int-table.htm.

May 5th, 2000 - New Career Resources

We have some excellent new online career resources courtesy of the April issue of the APA Monitor. Check out the new link on our Employment page.

March 23rd, 2000 - New Scholarships

Here's a quick announcement about two new scholarships that came to our attention this weeks. One from the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association of Toronto (CIBPA) Education Bursary Foundation, and the other from the Bloorview MacMillan Centre. Check them out on our Grants and Scholarships page.

February 25th, 2000 - Annual Report and AGM

The 1999 SOSIP Annual Report and Agenda for the 2000 Annual General Meeting are now available online.

February 16th, 2000 - Thesis Contest Winners

SOSIP is pleased to announce the 2000 Thesis Contest winners. The Master's level award goes to Angela Rosalie Digout from Queens University for her thesis titled Poverty and cognitive functioning in a high-risk sample of Ontario children . The winner at the Doctoral level was Dr. Karen Sumbler from the OISE, University of Toronto for her dissertation titled Phonological awareness combined with explicit alphabetic coding instruction in kindergarten: Classroom observations and evaluation. Our congratulations go out to both of them for their fine academic work. We would also like to thank and congratulate everyone else who made a submission this year. We had another great turn out this year with 21 submissions in the MA category and 9 for the PhD. And again we had psychologists from across Ontario (9 this year) who generously volunteered their time in reviewing the abstracts.

A complete list of participants and the judges who volunteered to review the abstracts can be found on the 2000 Thesis Contest Winners and Participants web page.

January 25th, 2000 - Tips On Publishing

The December '99 issue of the APA Monitor contained an article that will be of interest to many of us, on the topic of publishing. Anyone thinking of going on to an academic career (and increasingly non-academic careers as well) will want to read this article describing how to maximize the hard work that you've put into your dissertation. A link for the online version of the article can be found on the Employment page of the is website.

January 7th, 2000 - New Scholarship

Check out the Grants and Scholarships section for new scholarships. The Rabin Scholarship Fund for the Advancement of Peace and Tolerance is open to any doctoral or post-doctoral student whose research interest could impact significantly on the advancement of peace. Also, we have added information about the Mackenzie King Scholarships for postdoctoral studies.