SILC News Archive
2008
06/24/2008 There are now 189 members in our Spatial Network!06/24/2008 A list of speakers is now available for viewing for the Fall Lecture Series (a graduate seminar offered jointly by University of Chicago and Northwestern University).
06/23/2008 There are now 187 members in our Spatial Network!
06/13/2008 Hannah Degner has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
06/11/2008 There are now 186 members in our Spatial Network!
06/06/2008 There are now 185 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
06/05/2008 There are now 184 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/23/2008 There are now 178 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/14/2008 There are now 177 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/13/2008 There are now 175 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/09/2008 There are now 173 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/08/2008 There are now 170 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
05/07/2008 The url for Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence, taking place in Evanston, IL (June 13-15), has been up-dated under Upcoming Conferences / Meetings.
05/06/2008 The link to the 2006 National Academies of Science report: "Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum" has been added to our Publications News page. If you peruse our Resources page (found in our menu on the left side of this page) you will find a description of the Publications News page (we welcome suggestions for more additions to that page), as well as a host of other helpful resources and tools relevant to this site.
04/16/2008 There are now 168 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
3/31/2008 The bibliography page has been updated.
3/31/2008 There are now 167 members in our Spatial Network!
03/06/2008 There are now 166 members in our Spatial Network! The bibliography page is updated as well.
2/29/2008 Call for Papers (Deadline March 12th!) for the 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. SILC's conference/meeting page is here.
2/28/2008 One of our co-PIs, Dedre Gentner, has been named the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor. [.pdf]
2/26/2008 We have just added a google search engine to make searching our website more convenient. It is located on our homepage.
2/20/2008 The Lab section on our People page is getting revamped.
2/19/2008 There are now 164 members in our Spatial Network!
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on a conference: The INS and OUTS of Spatial Learning: From Theory to Practice. This will be at University of Chicago's Gleacher Center in June.
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on an Advanced Training Institute on Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research. This will be at the University of California, Santa Barbara in July.
1/24/2008 A list of some of Susanna Millar's (one of our Network Members) publications has been added to the Bibliography page.
1/24/2008 On-line article in ArcWatch by one of our Spatial Network members. Developing spatial thinking skills in education and society
1/22/2008 There are now 158 members in our Spatial Network!
1/22/2008 There are now 157 members in our Spatial Network!
1/17/2008 New call for participation for Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence. Info in .pdf format here.
1/15/2008 A link for SROP at Temple can be found here as well as in the left side menu.
1/15/2008 REMINDER:Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here. There are now links for this in the menu on the left side of this webpage.
2007
12/19/2007 Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here.11/30/2007 The Links page has been up-dated with many more links compiled from our website. There is also a brief site map for our website.
11/28/2007 There are now 156 members in our Spatial Network!
11/27/2007 SILC project members: Please note that there is a new section on our wiki devoted to spatial job opportunities: SLC Job Postings. You must be logged on to the wiki in order to view this.
11/27/2007 Info on the International Spatial Cognition Conference (SC'08) has been added to the Calls page.
11/24/2007 There is a Links page of useful website addresses on our Resources page.
11/19/2007 At long last our Publications link is now active. Please, visit that link to see what SILC has generated in terms of Publications, Presentations,and other generated resources.
11/16/2007 The Resources page has been up-dated with information about the Library of Shepard and Metzler type mental rotation stimuli and the Vandenberg & Kuse paper and pencil test (Redrawn version).
11/16/2007 There are now 155 members in our Spatial Network! Our bibliography page has been updated as well.
11/13/2007 SILC Celebrates Opening at Temple University. See our Press Release.
11/13/2007 To SILC project members: I will be adding your access to the SLCnetwork wiki (i.e. the wiki for all the NSF Science of Learning Centers). When you are added you should receive an automatically generated email. Please email me on Thursday 11/15/07 if you have not received an email.
11/13/2007 The website menu on the left-hand side of the webpage has been up-dated and the order of menu choices has changed slightly.
11/8/2007 A link to the SLCnetwork wiki has been added to the left menu of this site (you must be a SILC project member to access pages other than the Main page)!
11/7/2007 There are now 152 members in our Spatial Network!
11/7/2007 Our bibliography page has been updated.
11/7/2007 Two new SILC project members from Northwestern University have been added to our People page.
11/1/2007 The Cognition and Communication Research Centre of Northumbria Unversity officially opens on the 3rd of December. The invitation to the lecture/opening is on the meetings site under upcoming meetings.
10/25/2007 Our bibliography page has been updated.
10/22/2007 There are now 148 members in our Spatial Network!
10/22/2007 New addition to the SILC Resources page: Publications News. The direct uri for Publications News is: http://www.silccenter.org/resource-info/publications-news_index.html
10/11/2007 There are now 147 members in our Spatial Network! The Bibliography page has been up-dated as well.
10/05/2007 The Calls for Participation page has been up-dated.
10/04/2007 There are now 145 members in our Spatial Network!
10/03/2007 There are now 143 members in our Spatial Network!
09/26/2007 There are now 142 members in our Spatial Network!
09/20/2007 Our SILC People page has been up-dated with new grad students and post-docs.
09/18/2007 There are now 137 members in our Spatial Network!
09/17/2007 There are now 136 members in our Spatial Network!
09/13/2007 There are now 135 members in our Spatial Network!
09/12/2007 Remember to check out the Bibliography page.
09/12/2007 There are now 134 members in our Spatial Network!
09/06/2007 There are now 133 members in our Spatial Network!
09/05/2007 We have an addition to the Resources page: Object-Location Memory Task.
09/05/2007 There are now 131 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 There are now 129 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 Our servers were down during the Labor Day weekend. SILC Members: The SILC wiki is now accessible as of 12:15pm CST.
08/30/2007 Check out the up-dates to the Children's Mental Transformation Task section of the Resources page. The task instrument has been up-dated and an excel document has been added.
08/30/2007 Check out the up-dates to this page: Calls for Participation/Upcoming Meetings/Lecture Series. Our Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Lecture Series schedule is found there as well.
08/30/2007 There are now 124 members in our Spatial Network!
08/28/2007 SPRING Lecture SeriesSchedule (be sure to look at our Fall Lecture Series line-up on this page):
February 2008
- 2/14 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Ben Kuipers
- 2/21 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Timothy McNamara
- 2/28 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Tversky
- 3/6 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
- 3/20 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Nadel
- 3/27 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Frances Wang
- 4/3 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
- 4/10 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Bill Warren
- 4/17 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
- 4/24 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Dan Montello
- 5/1 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
08/28/2007 There are now 117 members in our Spatial Network.
08/22/2007 UPDATE FALL Lecture Series Schedule:
October 2007
- 10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
- 10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
- 10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
- 10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
- 11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
- 11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
- 11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
08/15/2007 There are two more SILC staff members and one more SILC graduate student.
08/10/2007 There are now 115 members in our Spatial Network. There are also two more SILC staff members and four more SILC undergraduate students.
08/10/2007 UPDATE Fall Lecture Series Schedule:
October
- 10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
- 10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
- 10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
- 10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
- 11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
- 11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
- 11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
07/19/2007 There are now 113 members in our Spatial Network.
07/17/2007 There are now 109 members in our Spatial Network. Visit the Spatial Network Members page. The Bibliography page has also been up-dated. Note that a distribution email list has been made for the Network members. Information regarding this list will be sent to the network members soon.
07/17/2007 Information about the Visualization Assessment and Training (VIZ) website has been added to the Resources page.
07/13/2007 Fall Lecture Series Schedule (more info coming):
October
- 10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
- 10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
- 10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
- 10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
- 11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
- 11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
- 11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
07/11/2007 This website is continually evolving. Check-out the following recent changes on this site:
- There is a new Resources page, which has been recently updated. There will be additions made to the Resources page in the coming weeks.
- There are currently 106 Spatial Network Members.
- Check out the Bibliography page. It contains relevant reference materials cited and/or published by our SILC members, as well as relevant works published by our Network members.
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04/16/2007 SILC hosts successful Board Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 12, 2007
2006
11/8/2006 Recent press on-line about our newly awarded project:
NSF Awards Temple $3.5 Million for Spatial Learning Center
NSF awards Temple $3.5 million to establish Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center
NSF Awards Temple $3.5 Million To Establish Spatial Intelligence And Learning Center
University of Chicago joins new center to study spatial intelligence
11/3/2006 An article about SILC is in Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science news:
Northwestern Joins National Group to Study Spatial Learning