Assistant Professor Edward Cokely (CLS) and several graduate students presented research at the 33rd annual conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the 2012 meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
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Associate Professor Michele Miller (ME-EM) and Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs), “Self-efficacy and Engineering Interests Development in Elementary School Aged Students at After-school Maker Workshops,” NSF
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Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs) and the Michigan Tech Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (Uzi Mendez, Michael Briseno, Gilbert Ramirez and Armando Flores) along with Tech student volunteers Jess Hammersley, Margaret Brunette, Tyana Bogicevic and Sukaina Miftah, conducted a Family Engineering Night for 300+ Hispanic students and their parents at the Harrison Park K-8 School in Grand Rapids, Nov. 19.
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Gerardo Ramirez, a PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago, will present “Mathematics Anxiety: Origins, Impact, and Cognitive Mechanisms Driving Poor Performance” from 11:05 to 11:55 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28, in Rekhi G06. For more information, contact Associate Professor Susan Amato-Henderson (CLS) at slamato@mtu.edu .