The winner of the '06 election for WPA Vice President is... Christine Tetrault! Congratulations to Christine, who won with 67% of the votes!

This year's nominations are in! Congratulations to all of those who have already won their positions! The only position that an election must be held for this year is that of Vice President, with candidates Christine Tetrault and Alison Carere! Click here for their nominations.

*Voting is now closed*


The uncontested nominees for next year's executive are:

Anne Wagner - President
Nadil Zeiadin - Social Coordinator
Kimberly Lindahl - Volunteer Coordinator
Michelle Fung - VP Finance
Chloe Hamza - VP Marketing and Communications (External)
Adam Guzzo - VP Marketing and Communications (Information Technologist)

You can read their nominations HERE.

Design Contest

Members its up to you this year to design our t-shirts, sweaters, pens, keychains, hats, underwear, anything the Purple Door can print we will make. We are challenging all members to come up with a creative new design, slogan or a modification of our current logo to incorporate into a piece of merchandise that will be later sold to all members in a fundraiser. **Bonus** The design that wins the contest gets a free piece of merchandise! So get those creative juices flowing; designs are due in by Monday March 13^th @ 6pm.

Voting on designs will be taking place from Wednesday March 15^th until Monday March 22^th.

Click here for an image of our logo! Also be sure to check out the updates on the events page.

The Career and Grad Forum had a massive turnout this year, with guest speakers Dr. Olsen, Dr. Vernon, and graduate students Erin Ross and Nick Cothros. A synoposis of this event, as well as pictures from past events, can now be found under the 'events' tab above.

The handouts from Val Van Domelen, the Graduate Program Assistant for Psychology, were gone well before the forum began, and so the information from this excellent booklet of web resources has been posted under 'links' . This information is intended to help you get started with navigating Western's Graduate Programs in Psychology website, as well providing information on the GREs and other graduate programs in Canada.

Here is a list of all the events for 2006 so far! Any changes to these times will be updated as soon as they are known. Social and Volunteer Events will be listed here as soon as dates have been chosen.

October 18th, 2005 was the first day of voting for Prof of the Year! Congratulations to Dr. Mike, who was presented with the award at the 2005 Annual Wine and Cheese!

Also, the volunteer link has been enabled recently, and information from Christine will be added to this section as it comes.

Tonight will be the first general meeting of the WPA! We are holding it in room 3026 of the Social Science Centre at 6:30 to 7:30. If you haven't joined yet and would like to, you are welcome to attend! If you can't attend tonight (Sept. 28), please sign up at the Psychology Resource Centre (SSC 3115). Here is a little bit about what we have planned for this year in case you miss tonight's meeting:

October

We will be having at least one social event, in order for you to get to know other members of the WPA. Our social events are a great way to make class aquaintances just in case you need to trade-off going to your least favourite lectures while still getting the notes!

November

On the 15th, we will be holding our Annual Wine & Cheese. Come join us in the Wave at around 6pm and get your drink on with your profs! (Sorry, but it is against the law to serve alcohol to minors...however we will have other refreshments not related to wine or cheese!)

December

The volunteer committee get's into the holiday spirit and sells non-denominational holiday gift cards in the UCC Atrium!

January

Worried about your degree? Not sure what to do with it? Join us at the Graduate and general Psych forums to get your questions answered!

March

Sit back and relax while some of your favourite profs talk about current issues in popular psychology at our Speaker Series. Three nights, three (or more) profs, and plenty of entertainment that will get you thinking.

Of course, we will have a lot of other great things to do as well, and those will be posted here as they are planned. If you would like to help with planning more events, please join our social committee!

The Western Psychology Association is pleased to bring you this new website. We hope that it will assist you in getting involved with the department, and that it will eventually become a good resource for all psychology undergraduate students. Some of the features have not yet been implemented, and suggestions are welcome. The forums have been activated, and will be a great way of getting in touch with other WPA members. As soon as we have the required info, volunteer positions will be posted. All news will be posted to this page, so expect to see updates soon!