Symposium Features Undergraduate Research Psychology honors students presented research projects at the Works in Progress Symposium on November 4.
	13th Annual Mid-South Psychology Conference Annual conference to be held at the University of Memphis on Saturday, February 27, 2010. The Mid-South Psychology Conference (MSPC) is sponsored and hosted each year with the help of The University of Memphis, Lambuth University, and Christian Brothers University.
	New NSF Funded Projects Dr. Art Graesser, professor of Psychology, has received three new NSF-funded grants. "Collaborative Research: Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes" is the title of a project funded for $582,000.
	Suicide Prevention Grant Renewed Funding for the Memphis STEPS program has been renewed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
	Murphy Awarded NIH Grant Dr. Jim Murphy, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-principal investigator on an NIH grant in the amount of $365,438 titled "Protective Behavioral Strategies and Brief Alcohol Interventions."
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The University of Memphis Psychology Department consists of approximately 32 full-time faculty members, 20 adjunct faculty (psychologists in the community who teach and/or supervise our students), 5 postdoctoral fellows, 90 doctoral students, 40 masters students, and over 700 undergraduate majors and minors.

The Department is also the home of the Center for Applied Psychological Research, one of the most successful of the centers created under the State of Tennessee's Centers of Excellence program.