IAP 2021 Activities by Category - Life Sciences: Hands-on

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Principal Research Scientist, Alejna Brugos, Research Affiliate, Nanette Veilleux, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none; sugg linguistics, cognitive science, speech acoustics

Tuesday/Thursday, January 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 22, 26, 28, noon to 2:00 pm, virtual
Sign up in advance by January 4th, and preregister on WebSIS
Listeners permitted.
Prereq: linguistics, acoustic or psycholinguistics or speech science background suggested
Level: U (6 units)   Graded P/D/F

This course presents a tutorial on the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system, for labelling certain aspects of prosody in Mainstream American English (MAE-ToBI). The course is appropriate for undergrad or grad students with background in linguistics (phonology or phonetics), cognitive psychology (psycholinguistics), speech acoustics or music, who wish to learn about the prosody of speech, i.e. the intonation, rhythm, grouping and prominence patterns of spoken utterances---prosodic differences that signal meaning, and their phonetic implementation.

Sponsor(s): Research Laboratory of Electronics
Contact: Stefanie Hufnagel, 36-759, 617 253-3201, SSHUF@MIT.EDU

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6.S086 Transcribing Prosodic Structure

	Jan/05	Tue	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/07	Thu	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/12	Tue	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/14	Thu	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/19	Tue	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/21	Thu	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/26	Tue	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop
	Jan/28	Thu	12:00PM-02:00PM	virtual, Bring your laptop

Level: U (6 units) Graded P/D/F

A tutorial on the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system, for labelling prosody in Mainstream American English. Appropriate for undergrad or grad students in linguistics, cognitive psychology, speech acoustics or music, to learn about the prosody of speech, i.e. the intonation, rhythm, grouping and prominence patterns of spoken utterances.

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel - Principal Research Scientist, Alejna Brugos - Research Affiliate, Nanette Veilleux - Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Leslie Langston, LICSW

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Your academic path can be one of the most exciting and transformative adventures of your life. It can also be overwhelmingly stressful. Managing heavy academic demands can lead to burn out. This is especially true while isolating during the current pandemic.  

This course will consist of three, half-hour sessions that will give you the tools you need in which to manage your stress levels without taking very much time out of your busy schedule. 

Each session will consist of a stress management tool in addition to the practice of a stress reduction exercise. Students will learn brief, daily stress reduction techniques which can be integrated into a busy schedule. No special equipment is required.

Lead: Leslie Langston, LICSW
Session Dates: 1/5, 1/12, 1/19
Session Time:  12:00pm-12:30pm
Location: Virtual 
Sign up by:  1/4/21
Registration: Please contact Leslie Langston, LICSW at langs@med.mit.edu

Sponsor(s): MIT Medical
Contact: Leslie Langston, LICSW, langs@med.mit.edu

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	Jan/05	Tue	12:00PM-12:30PM	Virtual, Zoom
	Jan/12	Tue	12:00PM-12:30PM	Virtual, Zoom
	Jan/19	Tue	12:00PM-12:30PM	Virtual, Zoom

Your academic path can be one of the most exciting and transformative adventures of your life. It can also be overwhelmingly stressful. Managing heavy academic demands can lead to burn out. This is especially true while isolating during the current pandemic.

Leslie Langston, LICSW

Maryam Khodadoust, PsyD, Psychologist

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

Are you rarely (if ever) satisfied with the quality of your work?

Do you spend more time day- dreaming about your accomplishments than working towards them?

Do you put off doing work that is important and meaningful to you?

Do you work in fits and spurts with vast periods of procrastination in between?

Do you find yourself in a constant loop of making promises to do things differently, only to find yourself repeating the same mistakes?

If you answered yes to three or more of these questions, your procrastination maybe due to performance anxiety. Don’t let procrastination hijack your academic/learning experience. Come learn about strategies to reduce your anxiety so you can get back to work.

Procrastination workshop is a 4 (2 hr/week) part workshop series using Cognitive Behavioral Strategies to assist students in reducing their anxiety and increasing their motivation to get back to work. This workshop is led by Maryam Khodadoust, PsyD and David Todtfeld, LICSW

Session Dates: Wednesdays 1/6, 1/13,1/20,1/27

Session Times: 1-3pm

Location: Virtual

Registration: please contact khod@med.mit.edu

Sponsor(s): MIT Medical
Contact: Maryam Khodadoust, E23-368, 617 253-2916, KHOD@MED.MIT.EDU

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	Jan/06	Wed	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual
	Jan/13	Wed	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual
	Jan/20	Wed	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual
	Jan/27	Wed	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual

Maryam Khodadoust, PsyD - Psychologist, David Todtfeld - Social Worker

Christina Brothers LICSW, Eating Disorders Specialist

	Jan/14	Thu	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual
	Jan/21	Thu	01:00PM-03:00PM	Virtual

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Did you know that perfection is a state that is rarely achieved and more often a source of distress and burnout rather than inspiration and passion? Join us as we learn how to allow our values to direct our decisions instead of unrelenting standards that often lead to more negative feelings and thoughts regarding ourselves.

If we are focused on maintaining perfectionism standards then what else might we be missing in our lives? In this 2-part workshop we will identify individual values that may be utilized to move us towards a more meaningful life.

Sponsor(s): MIT Medical
Contact: Christina Brothers LICSW, E23-332, 617-253-2916, cbrothers@med.mit.edu