The August edition of The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist (TIP) will mark the end of the 2-year tenure of our current TIP-TOPics columnists: Grace Ewles, Jessica Sorenson, and Thomas Sasso, from the University of Guelph. As they prepare to depart the TIP team, we begin a new search for columnists to continue the tradition of communicating the graduate student experience within the webpages of TIP.

SIOP plays a special role as an official nongovernmental organization (NGO) with consultative status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The SIOP-UN committee organizes all of SIOP’s UN-related efforts, including projects in support of the UN Sustainability Goals, and the submission of (requested) statements on issues pertinent to work and organizations (e.g., the aging workforce, living wages, humanitarian work psychology, and the economic empowerment of underrepresented women and girls). As part of this work, SIOP has also become an official United Nations Global Compact participant. This means we have formally signed on to 10 humanitarian/sustainability principles surrounding human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption.

If you love psychological science and if you love Boston, you won’t want to miss the upcoming Association for Psychological Science’s (APS) Annual Convention. The 2017 APS Annual Convention will be held May 25-28 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. 

Although the symposium deadline has passed, there is still time to submit your poster by January 31, 2017 (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/annual/call-for-submissions). Poster acceptances are communicated on a rolling basis. The sooner you submit your work, the sooner you’ll know if it is accepted for presentation!

Members are the heart and soul of SIOP and are greatly appreciated for their interest and contributions. Many members—nearly 800—have been with the Society for 25 years or more. To recognize the contributions and loyalty of these dedicated members, SIOP has developed a new initiative called the Sterling Circle. Sterling Circle members will be honored in several ways and can be identified at SIOP events with a special ribbon on their badges. Learn more about the Sterling Circle here!