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Upcoming SSPD MeetingMonday evening, 7:30-10 p.m. October 25th at the Society for Neuroscience
34rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (October 23 - 27, 2004) http://www.sfn.org
SSPD News and NotesSummer is almost here and it is time to update our membership on the current events of our organization. Feel free to forward this newsletter to any colleagues that might be interested in the stimulus properties of drugs. We are continuing to revise our email list for the newsletter and our mailing list for the website. Please forward any new addresses to Joe Porter. In addition, any items of interest that you have for future newsletters may be submitted to the Secretary/Treasurer Joe Porter (jporter@vcu.edu). The first piece of news to report is that our annual meeting on November 10, 2003 in New Orleans on a Monday night was a wonderful success (see our meeting photos at the end of the newsletter). There were so many members and nonmembers in attendance that we needed more chairs! We enjoyed catching up with fellow SSPD members that we havenšt seen in many years. In addition, we met some new students interested in joining SSPD. Joe Porter also collected dues from a number of renewing and new members. At the business meeting, the membership was clearly in favor of keeping Monday night for our annual SSPD meeting and keeping the electronic newsletter as our mode of communication. As new business, we discussed access to the drug discrimination database, Ian Stolermanšs call for more drug discrimination articles to be published, and updating our email and mailing lists. We also decided to share email lists with the Behavioral Pharmacology Society since many of our members have common interests with this other society. Our other news is that financially SSPD is back on track due to a number of recent initiatives, donations, and payment of membership dues. First of all, bringing our own laptop and projector to the conference drastically reduced the costs for the annual meeting. We would like to thank John Rosecrans for lending us the projector as well as the VCU crew for lugging the projector through the airports! Most importantly this year, AstraZeneca, Memory Pharmaceuticals, Pierre-Fabre, and Porsolt Associates made generous corporate contributions to SSPD. I would like to thank Charles France and Wouter Koek for assisting me by updating the mailing addresses for our corporate membership. We hope to see as many members and new members in San Diego this year as we did in New Orleans last year. Thanks to all members for their past and recent support. Ellen Walker, President,
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