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Events and routines

last updated: Feb 10, 2019

Routines

The lab has a few routines that allow us to set goals, review our progress, and celebrate our achievements. All lab members are expected to attend these routines.

Every semester

  • Semester planning meeting: Toward the beginning of the semester, we hold a semester planning meeting, in which we each present (briefly) what we plan to accomplish that semester.

  • Semester post-mortem: Toward the end of the semester, we hold a semester post-mortem, in which we talk about how the semester went, whether we met our goals, and what we learned and intend to change for the next semester.

Every year

  • Yearly self-evaluation and review: Each year in April, everyone in the lab is required to complete a self-evaluation. You’ll send your evaluation to Katie and meet to discuss what is going well and where you can improve.

  • Spring dinner: The lab is treated to a dinner each Spring (usually in April), in which we get together to celebrate that year’s accomplishments.

Recurring Events

There are several relevant events at Penn that our lab is invited to attend. Some of the events are required for some members of the lab. Review the expectations page in the lab handbook to find out which events are required for you.

Events are also available on the Child Lang Lab google calendar.

Weekly

  • Trueswell lab meeting (Mondays at 10am in Spring 2019): Lab meeting of the Language Development and Language Processing Lab. Content usually includes someone presenting a practice talk, an idea for a research study, or an outside speaker.

  • Language evolution lab meeting (Wednesdays at 12pm in Spring 2019): Lab meeting of the Cultural Evolution of Language Lab. Content usually includes someone giving a practice talk or presenting an idea for a research study.

  • ILST seminar (Fridays at 2pm in Spring 2019): Weekly seminar speaker hosted by the Integrated Language Sciences and Technology (ILST) MINDCore initiative.

  • MINDCore seminar (Fridays at 12pm in Spring 2019): Weekly seminar speaker hosted by MINDCore.

Monthly

  • Dev Group Meeting (3rd Thursdays at 4:30pm in Spring 2018): A monthly meeting of the Penn Child Development Labs that we like to attend. Content typically includes practice talks by postdocs or grad students that are part of the lab group, or outside speakers with work relevant to development.

  • Psychology Colloquium (approximately biweekly in Spring 2019): A biweekly speaker series broadly relevant to psychology hosted by the psychology department.

  • Linguistics seminar (None scheduled for Spring 2019): A monthly speaker series hosted by the linguistics department.

Yearly

  • Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) (March 22-24 in Spring 2019): an annual linguistics conference hosted by the Penn graduate students.