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UKIAH – Mendocino College Psychology Professor Roger Hock will be this year’s keynote speaker at the 37th Annual Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference (WPUPC) at Robert Morris University in Pittsburg, PA on Saturday April 25.
The topic of Hock’s talk is “Pavlov's Metronome: How We Got Here from There: Tales of Elegant, Ingenious, and Sometimes Bizarre Psychological Research.”
“The foundation of psychology is scientific research,” Hock said. “Throughout more than a century of innovative, ground-breaking studies, our knowledge and understanding of human behavior have been expanded and refined to the level of sophistication that exists today. Many of these studies played a major role in shaping modern psychology and helped set the stage for countless subsequent research projects and new fields of psychological exploration.”
According to Hock, even when the original results of some of these pivotal studies have been met later with questions, challenges, and controversies, their influence in historical terms never diminishes. They continue to be cited in new research articles, to be referenced in hundreds of textbook chapters, and to hold a special place in the minds of psychologists.
Since its inception in 1973, WPUPC has been attended by undergraduate students from over 100 colleges and universities and has grown to host well over 200 psychology students each year. Past keynote speakers at this conference include well-known psychologist such as, Michael Gazzaniga, Leon Festinger, Richard Solomon, Martin Seligman, Cynthia Deutsch, David Goldstein, Robert Cialdini, David Meyers, James Nairne, & Kathie Olsen.
For additional information on the Mendocino College Psychology Department, contact Roger Hock at (707) 468-3135 or visit the Psychology Program web page at www.mendocino.edu.
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Choir dates have now been moved in Carlé. Instead of after school on Wednesdays, choir will now be at lunch on Wednesdays. This will open up a better opportunity for students in Carlé to join the choir class. It's never to late to sign up. It's also never to late to sign up for community service.
On Wednesday, April 8, Lake County Community Action Agency will hold another dinner. If you are interested in participating and helping out with cooking, serving, and cleaning, you can get more information from Alan Siegel at Carlé High School.
Carlé High School is the plaque school. We make them, and we love it. Geneva Hudson has started on the project of making economic plaques from the winner(s) of the economic survival game that is currently happening at Carlé High.
And some more good news for Carlé, we will be making 100 plaques for the academy at Lower Lake High School. Designers at Carlé high in the media room make all the plaques. Thank you to all the designers in Carlé High School. Thanks very much to the academy director, Leah Nunes.
Open house is coming to Carlé High School! The date is set:Thursday, April 23. This will be a chance for parents to come and see what exactly their kids have been working hard on. So don't be shy and bring your parents, Carlé.
Carlé would like to thank Captain Dave Deakins, Mike Deakins, Pat Trotter and Willie Sapeta for coming out of their way and helping with HAZMAT. We would also like to thank Team DUI for coming out and teaching the students here at Carlé the importance of not driving under the influence. We would like to especially thank California Highway Patrol Officer Steve Tanguay, Capt. Russ Perdock of the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Michael Rupe from Lake Family Resource Center, Wendy Jensen, Scott from Alcoholics Anonymous, and Judy Thein for coming and telling their stories and experiences.
Verna Rogers attended a meeting on March 28 representing Carlé. This meeting was about boundary changes for the buses, which could affect the elementary schools and alternative schooling placements. So far the plan is for Oak Hill to have a alternative schooling for fourth through eighth grades and a high school for the alternative schooling.
Verna also had a representative from DeVry come on April 2 to tell kids about the college and how it could possibly help them. There the kids found out their personalities and what jobs could best go with them. If you have more question about DeVry or are interested in possibly going you can get more information from Verna. Thank you so much for coming DeVry.
Spring Bling was on Friday, April 3, and what a wonderful way to start out the spring break. There were many events happening that day like the egg toss, bobbing for apples, Fear Factor, the Easter egg hunt, chubby bunny, a relay race and tug-o-war! We would like to thank student government for
putting on this amazing event.
Have a wonderful spring break Carlé High School, and we will see you on April 13.
Amanda Tchamourian is a student at Carlé High School.
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COBB – Students from Henderson Schoolhouse in Clearlake recently visited geothermal energy provider Bottle Rock Power Plant to learn more about clean energy.
Students Dylan, Justin, Caylee, Brandon, Seth and JoJo, along with their teacher, Mary Henderson, took a tour of the facility.
Bob Henderson of Bottle Rock Power provided the plant tour, which followed a classroom presentation on how geothermal power works.
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UKIAH – Mendocino College Sophomore Xiao Hui Lau has been selected as a 2009 Coca-Cola National Finalist.
As a finalist, Lau will receive a check for $1,000 in August. Selection as a Coca-Cola finalist was based on scores earned in the All-USA Academic Team competition.
The program is sponsored by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation and is administered by Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society.
“I'm honored to be one of the finalists for the Coca-Cola National Scholarship, mainly because I have been able to represent Mendocino College at a National level, which I think is most meaningful. The education I've received at Mendocino College definitely deserves to be recognized, and I'm proud to be, in a roundabout way, an indicator of that recognition,” Lau said.
Lau, who is from Malaysia, moved to Ukiah with her parents in 1994 to be close to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. She graduated from Developing Virtue Secondary School.
Presently a sophomore, Lau earned her associate of arts degree in music one year after attending Mendocino College and her associate of science degree in biological science last May. Currently, she is working on her lower division undergraduate requirements for transfer to a four-year institution.
Lau is heavily involved in activities at Mendocino College. She has been involved in student government and the Associated Students of Mendocino College (ASMC) since 2007.
She Lau also held two one-year terms as a student trustee on the board of Mendocino College.
Last August, Lau even founded her own club called the Arts Club Of Mendocino College.
According to Lau, she felt that the Mendocino College campus lacked a student art advocacy organization. Through her experience with arts and craft fairs, she decided to try organizing sales at the College on her own.
“It was originally the fundraiser for ASMC, but eventually evolved into started my own club. Our club’s main goal is to promote Mendocino College student artist works to the local community and to foster inter-club relations with other art-related clubs on campus,” she said.
The group plans to hold art sales events on at least a yearly basis, if not each semester, Lau said.
“We aspire to promote the talent of Mendocino-Lake counties and to inform our communities of the opportunities for art at Mendocino College. We also would like to develop an artist network, allowing fellow artists to get to know one another and their unique and individual art,” Lau said.
Lau is also a member of PTK, an honor society for two-year colleges. She was selected to the First California Academic Team for PTK.
To be a member in Phi Theta Kappa, individuals must be enrolled in a regionally accredited institution offering an associate degree program, have completed at least 12 hours of coursework that may be applied to an associate degree, have a 3.5 grade point average, receive an invitation to membership from the chapter at the college enrolled at and must adhere to the moral standards of the society.
She also participates in weekly math contests and is a tutor for biology in the Mendocino College Learning Center.
“Xiao Hui is an exceptional student. She is curious, motivated, independent and very bright. I have often found her explaining topics to other students in my class,” Mendocino College instructor Rachel Donham said.
Lau plans to transfer at the end of the semester. Although it remains to be seen where she will transfer, she has already been accepted to the University of California-Davis.
“My short term goal in school is to finish my bachelor’s of science degree and then apply for an internship with a major public health organization. After that, I hope to enter a PhD program somewhere for virology or a related subject,” Lau said.
According to Lau, she hopes to establish a career as a virology or disease researcher.
“My high school biology teacher had encouraged us to read more science related books in order to broaden our interest in science. The story of the researchers from the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) who battled Ebola kindled a desire within me to work with people like them and do the sort of work these researchers did,” Lau said.
The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has announced the establishment of the Coca-Cola All-State Community College Academic Team program, providing up to $450,000 in stipends. The top scoring student from each of the 50 states will be named a New Century Scholar and will receive a $2,000 stipend.
All scholars will also receive special medallions and will be listed in an April 6 issue of USA Today.
Further information on the awards can be found at http://www.ptk.org/schol/allstate/ or www.ptk.org/schol/aaat/announce.htm.
For additional information about Mendocino College, visit www.mendocino.edu.