The Psychology Department at Eastern Illinois University (EIU)
has an opening for a full-time (9-month) Assistant Professor, tenure-track faculty position beginning August 2013. Duties include teaching
graduate courses in school psychology (primary) and undergraduate courses in psychology, maintaining an active research program, supervising
graduate student theses and practicum experiences, and participating in service to the department and university.
EIU offers
NASP-approved specialist-level school psychology training with a generalist orientation. Research is an important component of our training
program; all students are required to complete a thesis. Faculty research and professional involvement are also required. The EIU program
has been in place for over 40 years and has been an important source of practicing school psychologists in Illinois and across the country.
The program typically enrolls 10-12 students each fall with a total of approximately 30 students across the three-year program.
The
EIU Psychology Department has 18 full-time faculty members, including four who hold doctorates in school psychology. The department serves
approximately 450 undergraduate majors and offers, in addition to the school psychology specialist degree, an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Candidates are expected to have a doctoral degree from an APA-accredited or NASP-approved program, although ABD candidates will be
considered. Other requirements include demonstrated evidence of teaching excellence at the college/university level and a commitment to
research and scholarly work. Three years of professional school psychology practice in school settings and eligibility for Illinois
certification or NASP certification are preferred.
Electronic applications are preferred, but paper applications are welcome.
Applicants should send an application letter, vita, three letters of reference, and available reprints to:
Assege HaileMariam, Chair
( ahailemariam@eiu.edu) School Psychology Search Committee Department of Psychology
Eastern Illinois University 600 Lincoln Ave. Charleston, IL 61920
Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2012
and will continue until the position is filled.
Eastern Illinois University is an equal opportunity, equal access, affirmative action employer committed to achieving a diverse community.
New maps may reduce tourism impacts on Hawaiian dolphinsPublic release date: 27-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tim Lucas tdlucas@duke.edu 919-613-8084 Duke University
DURHAM, NC Over-eager eco-tourists intent on seeing spinner dolphins up close may inadvertently be disturbing the charismatic animals' daytime rest periods and driving them out of safe habitats in bays along Hawaii's coast.
Scientists at Duke and Stony Brook universities have developed a promising new tool that may help to limit repeated human disturbances and help reduce their negative impacts on the dolphins.
"Using the maps produced through this study we can identify the bays where the effects of human activities on spinner dolphins should be monitored most closely, and where immediate conservation actions are required," said David W. Johnston, research scientist at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
The researchers' tool shows that only a small number of bays 21 out of 99 in a study area along the western coastlines of the main Hawaiian islands were suitable habitats for resting dolphins. Knowing this, "conservation efforts can be focused on specific areas of importance," Johnston said,
"We may be able to minimize detrimental effects on dolphins by putting restrictions or preventative measures into place in a relatively small number of bays, rather than limiting access to dolphins along the entire coast," said the study's lead author, Lesley H. Thorne, a lecturer in marine science at Stony Brook University, who received her PhD from Duke in 2010. "That benefits tourists and tourism operators as well as the dolphins."
In the study, the researchers used the geographic coordinates and key environmental factors such as water depth and calmness, the size and proportions of the bays and distances from deep-water foraging grounds for hundreds of spinner dolphin sightings made in the study area between 2000 and 2010. The results appear August 27 in the online, open-access peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE. It's available at http://bit.ly/PMtBGp
Spinners are small dolphins famed for their graceful aerial movements and balletic spins. They are found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world and some divide their time between daytime rest periods in shallow, protected bays and nighttime foraging in more exposed waters.
Distinguishing between sightings of resting and active dolphins was key to defining critical habitats, Thorne said. While socially active spinner dolphins are more tolerant of humans' presence, resting dolphins will leave the safety of a bay and retreat to less suitable open waters if humans repeatedly disturb them.
"Sleep is essential for most animals," added Johnston. "When deprived of their necessary 'zzzz's,' they gradually show a decreased ability to process information and remain attentive to environmental stimuli. In technical lingo, we call this a 'vigilance decrement'."
Spinner dolphins are no exception to the rule. The researchers say dolphins that experience human harassment every day during their rest periods never fully recover their vigilance decrement. Their ability to forage successfully and detect the presence of nearby predators is also degraded, and their ability to produce sounds to communicate and navigate may also be impaired, he said.
Scientists and conservationists have long worried that spinners' popularity with tourists and overlap of their resting habitats with popular ocean recreation destinations may be placing them at risk. Reports of interactions have increased sharply in recent years, but few published studies have examined the detrimental impacts these interruptions may have on the animals, especially at the population level.
"It would be next to impossible to survey spinner populations and human activities in every bay that might be a resting habitat," Thorne said. "We're talking about hundreds of bays in the Hawaiian islands alone."
"Using predictive models, such as the maximum entropy spatial modeling approaches we've produced, is a much more cost-effective method," she said. "This type of modeling has only recently been applied to the study of marine mammals, but our study suggests it may be especially useful."
Thorne and Johnston plan to test their models by conducting similar studies of spinner dolphin distributions and habitat use in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and other sites in the Pacific islands region. Results from those studies, they said, could confirm the new models' usefulness.
Johnston and Thorne's co-authors on the PLoS ONE study include Dean L. Urban, professor of landscape ecology at Duke's Nicholas School, and Lars Bejdar, associate professor at Murdoch University, Australia, and adjunct assistant professor at Duke.
The data on spinner dolphin sightings used to develop the models in the study were provided by a team of eight additional co-authors from Murdoch University, the Pacific Islands Photo-Identification Network, the Cascadia Research Collective, the Hawai'i Marine Mammal Consortium, the Hawai'i Association for Marine Education and Research, the Dolphin Institute, the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Hilo, UH at M?noa, and Marine Mammal Research Consultants.
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"Predictive modeling of spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) resting habitat in the main Hawaiian Islands," L.H. Thorne, D.W. Johnston, D.L. Urban, J. Tyne, L. Bejder, R.W. Baird, S. Yin, S.H. Rickards, M.H. Beakos, J.R. Mobely Jr., A.A. Pack, M.C. Hill. PLoS ONE, August 24, 2012. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043167
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New maps may reduce tourism impacts on Hawaiian dolphinsPublic release date: 27-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tim Lucas tdlucas@duke.edu 919-613-8084 Duke University
DURHAM, NC Over-eager eco-tourists intent on seeing spinner dolphins up close may inadvertently be disturbing the charismatic animals' daytime rest periods and driving them out of safe habitats in bays along Hawaii's coast.
Scientists at Duke and Stony Brook universities have developed a promising new tool that may help to limit repeated human disturbances and help reduce their negative impacts on the dolphins.
"Using the maps produced through this study we can identify the bays where the effects of human activities on spinner dolphins should be monitored most closely, and where immediate conservation actions are required," said David W. Johnston, research scientist at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
The researchers' tool shows that only a small number of bays 21 out of 99 in a study area along the western coastlines of the main Hawaiian islands were suitable habitats for resting dolphins. Knowing this, "conservation efforts can be focused on specific areas of importance," Johnston said,
"We may be able to minimize detrimental effects on dolphins by putting restrictions or preventative measures into place in a relatively small number of bays, rather than limiting access to dolphins along the entire coast," said the study's lead author, Lesley H. Thorne, a lecturer in marine science at Stony Brook University, who received her PhD from Duke in 2010. "That benefits tourists and tourism operators as well as the dolphins."
In the study, the researchers used the geographic coordinates and key environmental factors such as water depth and calmness, the size and proportions of the bays and distances from deep-water foraging grounds for hundreds of spinner dolphin sightings made in the study area between 2000 and 2010. The results appear August 27 in the online, open-access peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE. It's available at http://bit.ly/PMtBGp
Spinners are small dolphins famed for their graceful aerial movements and balletic spins. They are found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world and some divide their time between daytime rest periods in shallow, protected bays and nighttime foraging in more exposed waters.
Distinguishing between sightings of resting and active dolphins was key to defining critical habitats, Thorne said. While socially active spinner dolphins are more tolerant of humans' presence, resting dolphins will leave the safety of a bay and retreat to less suitable open waters if humans repeatedly disturb them.
"Sleep is essential for most animals," added Johnston. "When deprived of their necessary 'zzzz's,' they gradually show a decreased ability to process information and remain attentive to environmental stimuli. In technical lingo, we call this a 'vigilance decrement'."
Spinner dolphins are no exception to the rule. The researchers say dolphins that experience human harassment every day during their rest periods never fully recover their vigilance decrement. Their ability to forage successfully and detect the presence of nearby predators is also degraded, and their ability to produce sounds to communicate and navigate may also be impaired, he said.
Scientists and conservationists have long worried that spinners' popularity with tourists and overlap of their resting habitats with popular ocean recreation destinations may be placing them at risk. Reports of interactions have increased sharply in recent years, but few published studies have examined the detrimental impacts these interruptions may have on the animals, especially at the population level.
"It would be next to impossible to survey spinner populations and human activities in every bay that might be a resting habitat," Thorne said. "We're talking about hundreds of bays in the Hawaiian islands alone."
"Using predictive models, such as the maximum entropy spatial modeling approaches we've produced, is a much more cost-effective method," she said. "This type of modeling has only recently been applied to the study of marine mammals, but our study suggests it may be especially useful."
Thorne and Johnston plan to test their models by conducting similar studies of spinner dolphin distributions and habitat use in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and other sites in the Pacific islands region. Results from those studies, they said, could confirm the new models' usefulness.
Johnston and Thorne's co-authors on the PLoS ONE study include Dean L. Urban, professor of landscape ecology at Duke's Nicholas School, and Lars Bejdar, associate professor at Murdoch University, Australia, and adjunct assistant professor at Duke.
The data on spinner dolphin sightings used to develop the models in the study were provided by a team of eight additional co-authors from Murdoch University, the Pacific Islands Photo-Identification Network, the Cascadia Research Collective, the Hawai'i Marine Mammal Consortium, the Hawai'i Association for Marine Education and Research, the Dolphin Institute, the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Hilo, UH at M?noa, and Marine Mammal Research Consultants.
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"Predictive modeling of spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) resting habitat in the main Hawaiian Islands," L.H. Thorne, D.W. Johnston, D.L. Urban, J. Tyne, L. Bejder, R.W. Baird, S. Yin, S.H. Rickards, M.H. Beakos, J.R. Mobely Jr., A.A. Pack, M.C. Hill. PLoS ONE, August 24, 2012. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043167
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A pair of Elvis Presley's?underwear, complete with stains, will be sold at an auction in Manchester, England, next month, the BBC reports. Presley wore the undies at a 1977 show before the auction house acquired them from Presley's father Vernon. The dirty drawers could fetch up to ?10,000, or around $15,800. (Check out a photo of the skivvies at RollingStone.com.)
Also up for auction are Presley's personal Bible, which was given to him in 1957 and contains handwritten notes, and 16mm home movie footage taken by Priscilla Presley. The Bible is expected to go for ?25,000, or around $39,500.
Omega Auctions will stream the auction live on Sept. 8.
FX's "American Horror Story: Asylum," the second installment in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's scary anthology series, has been ramping up its promotion in the past few weeks with various creepy teasers making the rounds. Now, EW can bring you four EXCLUSIVE new pieces of key art from the wild new season, set within an insane asylum. Click through to see all four images and get ready to shudder.
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Job Title???????? :?????????? Sr. Business Process Analyst--(ORACLE, PROCURE TO PAY)
Location???????? :?????????? Sunnyvale CA.?
Duration???????? :?????????? 1 YEAR
Need Locals only Phone then In person
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The position we are hiring for is a Senior Business Process Analyst responsible for developing and supporting business process solutions for Procure to Pay processes with specific focus on supporting Accounts Payable, Expense Reporting, and Procurement processes and systems.
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Scope of this role includes supporting corporate strategic and organizational initiatives such as new business models, company acquisitions and system upgrades.? The ideal candidate must have the ability to manage projects and changes in business process and systems through extensive collaboration with both internal and external customers and must work well in a highly complex global organization.
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This position will report to the Director, Business Process and Program Management within Finance and through matrix reporting support the Procure to Pay Global Process Owner.
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Duties/Responsibilities
?? Assist GPO in overall management and ownership in enabling the
?? implementation of systems with comprehensive considerations of user
?? requirements, system integration, project scope and timelines.
?? Sets and manages project timelines and priorities and drives team and
?? self to meet established deliverables.
?? Understand internal business operations in order to develop solutions to
?? drive decision making.
?? Elicit requirements by using interviews, document analysis, requirement
?? workshops, business process descriptions, business analysis, task and
?? workflow analysis.? Offer guidance and recommendations to business
?? partners as needed to ensure clarity of understanding and alignment of
?? goals.
?? Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, identify
?? gaps, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into
?? details, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true need.
?? Assist in the development of business cases, project charter, business
?? requirement documents, test scenarios, user acceptance testing,
?? roadmaps, quarterly and annual prioritization of initiatives, weekly
?? team status meetings, and global updates to key business partners.
?? Identify areas for improvement.? Develop, analyze and review new and
?? existing business processes, specifying requirements and identifying
?? solutions which scale while insuring compliance in not compromised.
?? Develop training material, process documentation, change management
?? communication and material.
?? Partners with and coordinates cross-functional team, communication, and
?? execution.? Must anticipate and respond to staff, customers and
?? cross-functional team.
?? Work with various teams within IT, including development to ensure
?? comprehension and feasibility of requirements.
?? Proven liaison between functional users and IT.
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Skills
?? This position works cross-functionally with other process teams to
?? insure end to end process alignment. They will interact closely with the
?? Business Process Owners (BPO), Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and also
?? the Global Process Owner (GPO), Shared Services and IT.
?? Key responsibilities are to translate business requirements into the
?? best solutions to optimize the overall business process.? Solutions must
?? ensure internal requirements align with business process and systems.
?? High level of interaction and coordination with the business to ensure
?? smooth and efficient operation of the business using a diplomatic,
?? professional and service-oriented approach.
?? Must be able to partner and work closely with all stakeholders in the
?? organization to support changes.
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Skills/Qualifications
?? Operational experience from a functional perspective within Procure to
?? Pay.
?? Ability to apply best practice solutions.
?? Contributes to the development of innovative ideas.
?? Works under consultative direction and pursues course of action to
?? achieve desired results.? Must be able to work independently with
?? minimal direction.
?? Solid appreciation for the importance of internal controls, as well as
?? reporting requirements.
?? Must have strong analytical skills to identify and interpret potential
?? business process issues and problems.? Strong problem solving skills.
?? Strong project management skills in order to organize and implement
?? business process solutions; ability to track and document project
?? deliverables.
?? Exhibit ownership of tasks and see them to closure.? Self starter, able
?? to learn quickly and to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
?? Ability to make quick, well-informed decisions to avoid project delays.
?? Excellent attention to detail yet ability to understand the big picture.
?? Results-driven individual who does whatever it takes to succeed and
?? loves a challenge.
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Experience
?? Bachelor's degree or equivalent (Business, Accounting, Computer Science
?? or related field preferred).
?? MBA a plus.
?? A minimum of 10 years experience in business analysis and/or project
?? management.
?? Strong analytical and judgment skills.
?? Experience with ERP systems (Oracle required). SAP experience a plus.
?? Must have excellent written and verbal communication.
?? Experience in business process consulting environment, implementing
?? enterprise systems desirable.
?? Ideally would have experience with a large-scale system implementation
?? and/or process re-engineering initiative.
?? Proficient using MS Office software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access).
Senior, retired Maryland Park Police horse selected based on reliability and personality
In an effort to draw attention to our equine volunteers, as well as recognize a local business that PETS and the Prince Georges? County Equestrian Center, Showplace Arena rely on, PETS has begun the ?PETS/R&D Cross Horse of the Year Award.?
R&D Cross, of Southern States, is a landmark Upper Marlboro store that has helped supply the program?s feed and horse care needs for many years. Recently R&D Cross assisted PETS with acquiring and installing heavy duty metal fencing panels for the horse?s turnout area. This fencing helped cut down on the amount of labor it took each year to repair the turnout and make it ready for the horses? return each riding season.
The 2012 winning horse is ?Herbie?.? A 30-year old, bay Quarter horse, Herbie came to the PETS program many years ago after being retired from the Maryland Park Police. During his time with the program he has become the most reliable mount for the riders we serve. His disposition allows instructors to use him with young, limited, timid first time riders and more experienced independent riders. His personality shows an eagerness to work as well as get along with the other horses in the program. His nature and popularity have led him to be used in every lesson.
2012 Horse of the Year winner ?Herbie? with (left to right) Liz Yewell (P.G. Equestrian Center), Instructor Chris Blegen, PATH Certified Head Instructor Debbi Bly, Herbie, Volunteer/Rider Greg Griffin, Instructor Mary Jane Coolen, Instructor Clara Carey, PATH Certified Instructor Kim Molhoek, Program Director. (PETS photo)
Voting for the PETS/R&D Cross Horse of the Year was done by ballot at the Equestrian Center barn as well as online at PETS? Facebook page. Eligibility was that each nominee had to be used in the year?s riding season. The top two horses were then forwarded to the instructors for the final selection based on the horse?s performance and reliability this season.
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In an effort to draw attention to our equine volunteers, as well as recognize a local business that PETS and the Prince Georges? County Equestrian Center, Showplace Arena rely on, PETS has begun the ?PETS/R&D Cross Horse of the Year Award.?
