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Are you interested in giving back to the community, getting leadership opportunities, and building bonds with other women? Alpha Gamma Delta may be the fit for you! We are hosting our winter recruitment events on Zoom starting January 18th. If you are interested, please fill out the form that is in our Instagram bio - @nmualphagams 

If you have any questions, feel free to email Taylor - tzorko@nmu.edu

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The Upper Peninsula Association of Behavior Analysis (UPABA) will be presenting it's July Webinar on Friday, July 16, 2021 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm via Zoom. This month's webinar will include a presentation from Dr. SungWoo Kahng, BCBA-D entitled "Functional Analyses of Problem Behavior: Procedural Variations and Ethical Consideration." 

ABSTRACT: Functional analyses are the gold standard in the assessment of problem behaviors. FAs are the most precise method of determining behavioral function, which informs the development of treatment. Despite the research supporting the efficacy of functional analyses, there continues to be reluctance on the part of practitioners to conduct the analyses on a consistent basis. This presentation will focus on procedural variations of functional analyses, which may make it more practical in specific situations. Additionally, it will present the argument that conducting functional analyses is the ethical choice.

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The Upper Peninsula Association of Behavior Analysis is hosting its June Webinar: "Applying Behavior Analysis in the Classroom: Train the Trainers & Train the School Personnel" presented by Frances Paris, Ph.D., BCBA, LBA, LP, Sarah Pierson, M.S.Ed., BCBA, LBA, and Nicole Sirotti, M.A., BCBA, LBA 

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Do you ever wonder where the sources you see cited in the news and on social media come from? Or how accurate they actually are?

The Source It! Skillbuilder with the Lydia M. Olson Library will be taking place on April 14th, at 7:00 PM through Zoom. 

This Skillbuilder in collaboration with the Student Leader Fellowship Program is a great opportunity to learn how to fact check, and fight against fake news. It is time to get more informed and learn to track down some elusive government publications and studies!

Make sure to register in advance, as space is limited.

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The UP Association of Behavior Analysis will be presenting live, free monthly webinars oriented towards parents and caregivers. These webinars will be hosted on the last Thursday of each month, from April 2021 to August 2021 at 12:00pm (noon). For registration and more information, please visit upaba.org. 

• The July 29 webinar is titled The Power of Reinforcement, presented by Chiara Johnson, MS, BCBA, LBA
• The August 26 webinar is titled You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup, presented by Ashley Shayter, PHD, BCBA-D, LBA, CBIS

Sponsored by:

• NMU Behavior Education Assessment Research (BEAR) Center
• Superior Health Foundation
• Functional Behavior Services

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Dr. Emily Sandoz will be presenting Returning to Roots to Reach New Heights: How ACT as Clinical Behavior Analysis Enhances Language-Based Interventions for Meaningful Behavior Change at UPABA's April Webinar from 3:00pm - 5:00pm via Zoom on Friday, April 16, 2021.

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On December 19, 2014, the last episode of Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra showed Korra, the young Avatar able to bend all four elements, and the nonbender Asami holding hands and smiling into the other’s eyes, similar to the final moments between the main romantic couple of the prequel series. One of the creators, Bryan Konietzko, writes in a blog post about roadblocks he and his co-creator faced pursuing the ending they wanted: “We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a limit to how far we could go with it.” Despite its faults, Korra and Asami’s relationship was revolutionary not only in its depiction of a same-sex bisexual relationship, but also for the show’s portrayals of disability.

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College, specifically undergraduate, men are often described as “drunken, promiscuous… lovers of pornography, sports, and video games who rape women, physically assault each other, [and] vandalize buildings on campus” (Harris & Harper, 2014, p. 10). These behaviors are perceived to be common, even normal, for undergraduate men; however, there are many men who forego engaging in these behaviors and actively work to undermine toxic gender norms on their campuses. This presentation highlights college men who actively work to disrupt toxic gender norms that perpetuate men’s violence. Those who attend will begin to understand what motivates these men to act and how to implement effective initiatives to address toxic masculinity on college campuses.

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As their routines disappeared and their domestic responsibilities doubled, Puerto Rican mothers Noelia and Mariel, found themselves absorbing the impact of the disaster for their families. While Puerto Rican mothers have historically carried the burden of decades of structural and economic decline, overnight the stakes had changed, and their mothering practices needed to yet again, adjust "on the march." When taken together, the paradigm of intensive mothering and the gendered stratification of disaster relief and recovery efforts produced conditions that not only push them back into the private but also double their mothering obligations, and endowed them with guilt and burdens of the selfless. At the same time, mothers must creatively approach mothering in these conditions, building new neighborhood relationships and rethinking the old familiar routines. Put differently, these mothers were not immune to cultural and societal norms that are not only engendered by care work but place the responsibility and expectation for resilience on women. As I will show in this presentation through two different mothering narratives, mothers reconciled the material, psychological, and discursive tensions by shifting not just the way they mothered, finding empowering moments in the disempowering conditions, but also how they came to feel about mothering and themselves in light of the narratives around them.

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UPABA is proud to be hosting Dr. Ryan Speelman, BCBA presenting Philosophical and Conceptual Foundations in Gambling Research on Friday, March 19, 2021 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. 

Abstract: This talk will outline foundational components of the 5th edition task list and correspondence to gambling research, including specific exemplars. While gambling treatment/research is an uncommon career avenue for certified practitioners, an understanding of how this research shares philosophical underpinnings and procedures with more common job duties will provide attendees with a broader understanding of these applications.  Outlining these commonalities will help practitioners generalize/apply experimentally verified learning principles across clientele, contexts, and presenting problems.    

Learning Objectives: At the completion of this event, participants will be able to use radical behaviorism as a philosophical orientation of science to describe/analyze behavior across a multitude of settings and use gambling literature to provide examples for each of the “concepts and principles” listed under section 1B of the BACB’s 5th edition task list.