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NEEPS Fundraising Efforts Benefit NCSE

Monies raised from sales of the great NEEPS fish bumper stickers
have been donated to a great cause -
the National Center for Science Education -
a center of evolutionary study.
Nice job NEEPSters!

NEEPS 2011 - at Binghamton University
5th Annual Meeting
March 31 - April 3

March 31 will be the second annual meeting of the Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society (FEPS). 

Be there!

NEEPS 2010 Student-Presentation Awards:

Best POSTER
Iris Holzleitner, University of Vienna, Austria

Best TALK
Katherine Reding, Emory University, Georgia

The Awards Committee, headed by NEEPS 2010 program chair Maryanne Fisher, wanted me to make it very clear that there were lots of outstanding candidates for these awards. Congatulations Iris and Katherine!

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YOU can add 2010 conference photos to the NEEPS 2010 Shutterfly site here:

http://neeps.shutterfly.com/

The NEEPS 2010 Program is now available for download!

Check out conference details and get a sneak peak at the top notch presentations and posters!

NEEPS Annual Kickball Tournament.
New Paltz, NY.
Thursday, March 25 at 7PM

In the words of President-Elect Rosemarie Sokol Chang:
“… Or will you be washing your hair that evening?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. And tell your friends and/or mom and 1 year old
son to be there.”

NEEPS ELECTION RESULTS*:

President- Rosemarie Sokol Chang
Vice President- Dan Kruger
Secretary- Sarah Strout
Treasurer- Robert O. Deaner
Membership Officer- Scott Barry
Kaufman
Communications Officer- Edward
Sturman
Members at Large: Alice Andrews, Rebecca Burch, Maryanne Fisher, Kilian Garvey, Gordon Gallup, and Steve Platek
Student Member- Ben Crosier

Congrats to all. New officers start their positions June 1, 2010 (as per the NEEPS by-laws)

*note that this list includes some executive appointments.

NEEPS 2009

The annual conference for NEEPS was held from the 9th to the 12th of July at SUNY, Oswego. Please see the Conference Web-Site for additional details.

Neepsters in the News
In a recent New York Times article, NEEPS Officer Robert Deaner reports on gender differences in high performance athletes.
NEEPS 2008 — Another Success!
Our second annual conference at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester was another success. For details on the event, please visit the NEEPS 2008 Conference Website.
The Natural Cook: What Diet Does to Make us Human
The 2008 William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture at the University of New England will be delivered by Dr. Richard Wrangham. The lecture, entitled “The Natural Cook: What Diet Does to Make us Human” will be held on April, 25 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Interactive Classroom, Parker Pavilion, Westbrook College Campus, University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine. The annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology.
Evolution for Everyone
David Sloan Wilson has created an on-line version of Evolution for Everyone which is now available for college credit. Please see the Evolution for Everyone (Biol 105) Website for more information.
Sex in the City: The Ambiguity of Female Mating Strategies
The New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (aka: The NEI) hosted a talk by Southern New Hampshire University professor of psychology and NEEPS member Sarah L. Strout, Ph.D. entitled Sex in the City: The Ambiguity of Female Mating Strategies October 24th, 2007. This was the first lecture in the 2007-2008 NEI series. NEEPS members Kilian J. Garvey and David L. Smith are scheduled to present lectures later in the year.The New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology is an initiative by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of New England (Biddeford, ME) to foster research and education into the interdisciplinary nexus of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology.

Call For Papers
The call for papers for NEEPS Second Annual Conference is now out! All are encouraged to submit!
2nd Annual Conference Announcement
NEEPS 2008 will take place MAY 2-4 (Friday-Sunday) at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. Sarah Strout will be the Conference Organizer and Rob Deaner will be the Program ChairVisit the 2008 Annual Conference page for information on attending.

Keynote Speaker of 2nd Annual Conference
Steven Pinker will give the NEEPS keynote address the evening of Friday, May 2nd, 2008.
Plenary Speaker of 2nd Annual Conference
Peter Gray will be the plenary speaker at this year’s conference.
Special Sessions at Annual Conferences
Next year’s conference will begin our tradition of having a special topic session. The tentative 2008 Special Session is Clinical Applications of Evolutionary Psychology.
Official NEEPS journal accepting submissions
The Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology is the official journal of NEEPS!
1st Annual Conference
Our first conference at SUNY New Paltz was a huge success drawing 85 registered members from nearly 30 institutions … NEEPS is alive!For those who are interested, there is an online photo album from the first conference.