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Posted on: 2/12/2010
Postdoctoral Research Position, Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, University of Chicago. Flexible start date (before June 1, 2010).
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Posted on: 12/21/2009
Six PhD scholarships available for April 2010-March 2013: Int'l Research Training Group, University of Münster.
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Posted on: 12/21/2009
Open Professorship position in Geoinformatics, University of Münster (Germany).
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Posted on: 10/28/2009
Three Graduate Research Assistantships, Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab, University of Maine
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Posted on: 06/18/2009
Post-doctoral Research Associate position, Air Force Research Laboratory's Cognitive Models and Agents Branch (Mesa, AZ)
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Posted on: 06/11/2009
2 post-doctoral research positions, School of Computing, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
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Posted on: 05/26/2009
2 doctoral positions & 2 post-doctoral positions, Human Technology Center, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
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Posted on: 05/13/2009
Lab Coordinator, Hank Virtual Environments Lab at the University of Iowa
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Posted on: 05/11/2009
PhD studentship (United Kingdom)
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Posted on: 05/11/2009
Doctoral Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher position available (Universität Bremen)
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Posted on: 04/22/2009
Two post-doctoral positions: (1) Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh and (2) Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Posted on: 04/17/2009
Post-doctoral position, The University of Pennsylvania.
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Posted on: 04/13/2009
Research Technical Assistant position, Spatial Cognition Laboratory, Tufts University, Medford, MA USA.
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Posted on: 03/07/2009
Up to two post-doctoral scholar positions at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Posted on: 02/25/2009
Two Post-doctoral Research Associate positions at Brown University, Virtual Environment Navigation Lab (VENLab).
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Posted on: 02/19/2009
Post-doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Cognitive Science
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Posted on: 01/16/2009
Post-doctoral Researcher position, Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
More information: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/hr/staffvacancies/pss0803
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Posted on: 11/14/2008
Doctoral and Post-doctoral positions/scholarships available.
More information: http://irtg-sigi.ifgi.info/
[NB: The link within the .pdf document might not open correctly]
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Posted on: 8/20/2008
Two postdoc positions on belief revision in spatial reasoning
Deadline Date: September 15, 2008
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Posted on: 8/1/2008
Post-doctoral research position in spatial memory
Deadline Date: September 15, 2008
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Posted on: 8/1/2008
PhD student position on spatial memory project
Deadline Date: September 15, 2008
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SILC NEWS/UPDATES

Today is March 10, 2010

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Read our latest updates and incoming news below or for SILC in the press go to our Press Room (click on PRESS ROOM icon above).

3/4/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Hilary Barth, Sue Becker, Nathan Greenauer, Toru Ishikawa, Shaun P. Vecera, Tom verguts and Christoph Weidemann.

3/1/2010
Our March Showcase is on-line: The Role of Parent Gesture In Children's Spatial Language Development [Erica Cartmill, Shannon M. Pruden Dick, Susan C. Levine, Susan Goldin-Meadow].

2/18/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Kevin Mulqueeny.

2/12/2010
Job opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, University of Chicago.

2/12/2010
New publication by our SILC Members: Jee, B. D., Uttal, D. H., Gentner, D., Manduca, C., Shipley, T., Sageman, B., Ormand, C. J., & Tikoff, B. (2010). Analogical thinking in geoscience education.

2/10/2010
Note: Full paper submission deadline [in Calls section on Meetings page] for Spatial Cognition 2010 has been changed to: February 21, 2010.

2/9/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Ed Golob and Kelly McCormick.

2/5/2010
Please, note that we will soon be implementing a database for the Bibliography page. Due to this we are only up-dating the database.

2/5/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Michael Brown.

2/1/2010
Our February Showcase is on-line: Playful Learning: Exploring the Role of Dialogic Inquiry and Exploration in Children's Developing Shape Concepts [Kelly R. Fisher, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora Newcombe].

1/27/2010
Read the current Press on SILC-generated research: Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement by Sian L. Beilock, Elizabeth A. Gunderson, Gerardo Ramirez and Susan C. Levine.

1/7/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Roy Ruddle.

1/6/2010
The January SILC Showcase is now on-line: Facilitation of spatial skills necessary in performing geologic transformations [Ilyse Resnick, Temple University; Thomas Shipley, Temple University; Cathryn Manduca, Carleton College; and Nora Newcombe, Temple University].

12/21/2009
Updates were made to our CfP/Conferences page and Jobs page.

12/21/2009
Links were fixed under the sketch inquiry, Help Us Gather Sketches, on our homepage. Please, note that if you ever encounter a link that does not work, please send it to the attention of Jenn Stedillie, webmaster for this site:  

12/21/2009
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Elena Andonova, Kirsten Butcher, Liz Chrastil, Lisa Douglas & Ian Fogarty.

12/02/2009
The December SILC Showcase is now on-line: Spatial categories across languages [Naveen Khetarpal, University of Chicago; Asifa Majid, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley].


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