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HAIRI Brown Bag Meeting Notes January 23, 2015
1. Intros
• Introductions by attendees (see table of participants below) 2. Next Meeting
• Previous suggested date was March 13 but that is just before Spring Break • New meeting set for April 3rd (Friday at noon) • Possible topics: “Biophilia” discussion (psychology and love of nature) or Panel of equine therapy
folks; VOTE: Equine Panel is the winner.
3. Website • Working hard to get the HAIRI website up • be on the look out for email for your bio and permission to list you
4. Research
• Update on dog study -‐ about to roll it out. Still waiting on IRB approval. • Update on the equine/dog and autism study-‐ Looking at therapies that have been done already
and the design of various studies. Would be good for this team to talk to the pediatrics folks. They're looking at it if their (children with ASD) social interaction change when a dog is present. Comparing this with a human vs. dog. Collaborate to include 3rd comparison with horse. Great opportunity for partnership!
• “Animality” -‐ Are there animal dimensions in human personality that have to do with animal relationships? Data analysis on undergrads...results -‐ predicted that interactions with animals are independent of one another. You might be good with animals, but not necessarily with people.
5. Funding-‐ Looking for funding for all things HAIRI 6. Presentation/Discussion by Emily Cory on Raven research (photos below) Participants Name Department/Organization Email Jennifer Andrews Pediatrics; working with Gina Hansen
(HSSA) on dogs and autism [email protected]
Maureen Kelly Pediatrics; also works with kids and autism, Rich Wahl asked them to come
Kim Kelly Anthropology grad; Psychiatry researcher; HAIRI Coordinator and lead researcher on dog study
Julie Davidson Psychiatry; helping with the dog study
Jim King retired member of Pyschology [email protected] Cindy Chavarria Psychology undergrad; HAIRI
research assistant [email protected]
Sky Sobol Neuroscience undergrad; HAIRI research assistant
Emily Walsh PreVet undergrad; HAIRI research assistant
Lizzie Eadie Anthropology; Post-‐doc in Stacey Tecot’s lab
Stacey Tecot Anthropology [email protected] Emily Cory Psychology grad; raven researcher [email protected] Peter Fries retired from linguistics/comm
(snowbirds) [email protected]
Nan Fries retired from linguistics/comm (snowbirds)
Dieter Steklis Co-‐Chair HAIRI, primatologist, Prof UA South
Netzin Steklis Co-‐Chair HAIRI, primatologist, instructor Family Studies and Anthropology, Psychology grad
Wendy Davis Animal Sciences [email protected] Richard Whal Pediatrics and adolescent medicine Additional contact: Sydney Rice Dev Beh Ped/Autism (not present but
part of the group) [email protected]
Photos of Emily Cory, Shade (raven), and participants