Hello again, Please note that Dr. Amye Warren's talk will be on Wednesday, March 7th not February 7th as previously announced. ------------------------------------------ Good Day, The UTC Psychology Department is pleased to announce its Spring 2007 Colloquium Series. The colloquia are free and all are invited to attend. These talks provide a great opportunity for students to earn extra credit. All lectures will be held on Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:00 in the UC Auditorium (Rm.206). Please direct any questions you have to Dr. Lisa Cothran at [log in to unmask] Dr. Nicky Ozbek, will give the first presentation of the semester Her lecture entitled "You Smelled Good to Me: Loss of the Sense of Smell After Brain Injury" will be held on Wednesday, January 31, 2007. An abstract is provided below: Abstract If someone asked you which sense you would chose to give up, would you chose the sense of smell? Most people do. Yet, we miss it greatly once it is gone. This is a discussion about loss, brain injury, and our sense of smell. Parts of a film, made with the assistance of UTC students and those individuals with a brain injury who were willing to share their story on film, will be shown. Discussion will center around the film and related research. Professional Background Dr. Ozbek received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from The University of Georgia and did her Post Doctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical school. Her research interests include physical and emotional recovery following Brain Injury. _________________________________________________________ Below is a list of all lectures scheduled for this semester. Again, all lectures will be on Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:00 in the UC Auditorium (Room 206). I will send out individual announcements for each upcoming talk. January 31st - Nicky Ozbek "You smelled good to me: Loss of sense of smell after brain injury" February 28th- Stephanie Stokes-Eley "The art of public speaking" March 7th - Amye Warren, "Doing clean research in the messy world of early childhood education: Evaluating UTC's intervention efforts to improve the language, literacy, social-emotional, and cognitive development of young children before kindergarten entry" April 4th - Melissa Anyiwo "Pop culture as a primary source material: Race and gender" April 18th - Lynn Ourth "Practicum experience is essential to an undergraduate education" Angelique Cook MBA Student Senior Secretary Psychology Dept. 2803 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Phone: (423) 425-4262 Fax: (423) 425-4284 * UTCSTAFF home page: http://raven.utc.edu/archives/utcstaff.html * * unsubscribe: mailto:[log in to unmask] * * subscribe: mailto:[log in to unmask] *