Association for Behavior Analysis International

This year marks six years since our Florida State University Grand Reunion in Tallahassee in 2007. We welcome all Ph.D. grads and their spouses and significant others to catch up, share memories, and enjoy the hors d'oeuvres. A cash bar will be available. Also someone is having a 70th birthday, and we will be celebrating that in a low-key way as well.

The Speech Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis (SPABA) Special Interest Group welcomes its members, and any other ABAI attendees, for an occasion of informal social interaction and dialogue. This is an opportunity for speech-language pathologists, behavior analysts, and students in the fields of SLP and/or ABA to meet and talk about areas of common professional interest and to further interprofessional collaboration. This social reception will begin prior to the formal SPABA SIG Business Meeting, and will continue afterwards, in order to provide our members and other interested professionals with ample opportunity to connect and converse. All current, previous, and future SPABA members welcome. Bring your friends!

This event provides an opportunity for all ABAI convention attendees involved with or interested in the B. F. Skinner Foundation, the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) departments of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC campuses) to get together, get updates on activities, and make plans for the future. Dr. Julie Vargas will be present on behalf of the BF Skinner Foundation; Dr. Hank Pennypacker will represent the Cambridge Center; and Drs. Diana Walker, David Pyles, and Mary Anderson-Caruso are the Department Chairs of the ABA departments in Chicago, LA, and DC, respectively. This event is a great time to meet a diverse group of behavior analysts and friends of behavior analysis, from students to seasoned faculty, to well-known researchers in the field. All ABAI attendees are invited to network, discuss common interests, and have an all-around good time!

This year's University of Florida reunion will be extra-special as we gather to celebrate Dr. Marc N. Branch's contributions to behavior analysis! Dr. Branch recently retired from the University of Florida, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. Join your fellow Gators for a special tribute to him and to learn more about his work, and please contribute your stories and appreciation of Dr. Branch. Dr. Branch's mentor, Dr. Lewis Gollub, was Skinner's final PhD student, and Dr. Branch has carried on their legacy brilliantly in his teaching, writing, and research. Marc Branch is an experimental behavior analyst, a behavioral pharmacologist, and a radical behaviorist. He has taught many students in these areas and continues to influence the field through his presentations and conceptual work. His colleagues, advisees and other former students think he's great and welcome everyone to share in our celebration of him!

Students, colleagues, and friends of the University of São Paulo's Psychology Department are invited to join in the celebration of the program's receipt of the 2013 SABA Award for Enduring Programmatic Contributions in Behavior Analysis.

Students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University of North Texas Department of Behavior Analysis are invited to reunite with old friends and meet new ones as we celebrate more than three decades of excellence and achievement in behavior analysis at UNT.

This event is a social gathering for graduates of the programs in Teaching as Applied Behavior Analysis at Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Teachers College, as well as CABAS professionals and friends from around the world.

Alumni and friends join us for conversation, surprises, awards, and food, and renew old friendships, meet the new students and new faculty at SCSU, and hear news about St. Cloud State. What are the door prizes this year? (We had a promise from Iceland--remember?) Come for the latest gossip, to hear what is happening to the old-timers, and who is retired. We are close to home in Minneapolis--hopefully, this will bring out the SCSU troops in mass. Will the Alum Association surprise us with new stuff? Rumors have it that "There is a pigeon in your future." If you prefer a more active pigeon compared to the "old" version, volunteer to bring youth to the pigeon who will join us, and donate a door prize to the collection. If we get some cash donations early, we will have a cash bar. All ABAI reunions have been great fun; send Boltuck, Murphy and other former attendees notes to get their hides to Minneapolis, and spread the word. We want a big spirited group in 2013.

This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the Behavior Analysis Program at University of Nevada, Reno. We look forward to celebrating the following accomplishments with our colleagues and students at ABAI 2013:

We received the Award for Enduring Programmatic Contributions in Behavior Analysis from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis in May 2010.

The program has conferred more than 40 Ph.D. degrees.

The On-Campus Master's Program has conferred more than 80 master's degrees.

The Satellite Master's Program has conferred more than 100 off-campus master's degrees in multiple national and international locations.

This is a social reunion for alumni, students, and friends of Western Michigan University.