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Reminder: Husted Award Deadline September 15
APF and APA’s Science Directorate invite proposals for the 2005 Todd E. Husted Memorial Dissertation Award. The $1,000 award supports dissertation research on mental illness services with great potential to improve services for those with severe and persistent mental illnesses by, for example:
- Developing interventions that prevent the deterioration, homelessness and premature deaths of those with serious mental illness.
- Improving the medication and treatment compliance of those with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder.
- Improving the identification, diversion and treatment of people who enter the criminal justice system as a result of their mental illness.
- Educating professionals in the criminal justice system about the role of serious mental illnesses in the behavior of mentally ill offenders.
- Increasing access to and use of services and support for the most treatment-resistant and severely mentally ill individuals.
The application deadline is September 15. Applications will be accepted beginning July 1. Official application forms are available at www.apa.org/science/dissapp.html. Applications must include a cover letter describing the applicant’s research interests and career plans, a summary of dissertation research and proposed use of funds, a vitae and a letter of recommendation. For more information, visit www.apa.org/science/dissinfo.html..
Apply for a Scrivner Research Grant
APF is accepting applications for the 2006 Roy Scrivner Research Grants, which promote research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual family psychology and therapy. The Scrivner Fund provides one postdoctoral grant of up to $10,000 and two $1,000 graduate student grants, with preference given to dissertation candidates. Researchers from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences are encouraged to apply.
Applicants for the postdoctoral research award, including co-investigators, must have a doctoral degree. Applicants for the student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and have a letter of support from their supervising professor. An institutional review board from the principal investigator’s institution must approve all research involving human subjects.
The application deadline is November 1, 2005. Application guidelines are available from www.apa.org/apf/hooker.html or www.hookerprograms.org. For more information, contact the Foundation or by phone at (202) 336-5843.
Apply for Koppitz Child Psychology Fellowship
Graduate students can now apply for one of three $20,000 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowships to support graduate studies in child psychology in 2006 and 2007.
The Koppitz fellowships aid child psychology scholarship on such topics as developmental psychopathology and child-clinical, school, pediatric, developmental and educational psychology. Consideration will be given to psychological research that breaks new ground or creates significant new understandings that facilitate the development and/or functioning of children and youth.
The award includes travel costs to attend a pre-conference workshop for Koppitz graduate fellows in conjunction with APA’s 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, California, August 16-19, and other conferences as funds allow. APF will also award $4,000 travel stipends to runners-up.
Graduate students who have achieved doctoral candidacy are eligible to apply. Students can apply before having passed their qualifying exams, but proof of having advanced to doctoral candidacy is required before funding will be released.
The selected fellows’ institutions must provide a tuition waiver. Institutions may nominate only one applicant each year (APF will not accept nominees from separate departments or programs within the same university). Financial support will extend from September 1, 2006, to August 31, 2007. Results or progress of the research should be presented the following year at the pre-convention workshop.
Applications are due November 15, 2005. Recipients will be announced on or after February 15. For complete application guidelines, visit the APF website at www.apa.org/apf/koppitz.html. For more information, contact the Foundation via Email or at (202) 336-5843.
Apply for Koppitz Child Psychology Fellowship
Graduate students can now apply for one of three $20,000 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowships to support graduate studies in child psychology in 2006 and 2007.
The Koppitz fellowships aid child psychology scholarship on such topics as developmental psychopathology and child-clinical, school, pediatric, developmental and educational psychology. Consideration will be given to psychological research that breaks new ground or creates significant new understandings that facilitate the development and/or functioning of children and youth.
The award includes travel costs to attend a pre-conference workshop for Koppitz graduate fellows in conjunction with APA’s 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, California, August 16-19, and other conferences as funds allow. APF will also award $4,000 travel stipends to runners-up.
Graduate students who have achieved doctoral candidacy are eligible to apply. Students can apply before having passed their qualifying exams, but proof of having advanced to doctoral candidacy is required before funding will be released.
The selected fellows’ institutions must provide a tuition waiver. Institutions may nominate only one applicant each year (APF will not accept nominees from separate departments or programs within the same university). Financial support will extend from September 1, 2006, to August 31, 2007. Results or progress of the research should be presented the following year at the pre-convention workshop.
Applications are due November 15, 2005. Recipients will be announced on or after February 15. For complete application guidelines, visit the APF website at www.apa.org/apf/koppitz.html. For more information, contact the Foundation via Email or at (202) 336-5843.
Nominate a Colleague for an APF Gold Medal Award
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Board of Trustees invite nominations for its 2006 Gold Medal Awards, which recognize life achievement in and enduring contributions to psychology. Awards are presented in four categories:
- Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology
- Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology
- Life Achievement by a Psychologist in the Public Interest
- Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology
All awardees receive a gold medal, $2,000 donated by APF to the charitable/non-profit organization of the recipient’s choice, and an all-expense paid trip to APA’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the award will be presented (coach round-trip airfare and reasonable expenses for accommodations and meals will be reimbursed).
Eligibility is limited to psychologists 65 years or older who reside in North America. Nominations should indicate the specific award for which the individual is nominated, a nomination statement that traces the nominee’s career, a curriculum vitae and bibliography. Letters in support of the nomination are welcome. All nomination materials should be coordinated by a chief nominator and sent in one package. There is no nomination form.
The nomination deadline is December 1, 2005. Send nominations to Gold Medal Awards Coordinator, American Psychological Foundation, at the APA address or to via Email.
Nominations Sought for Distinguished Teaching Award
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) invites nominations for its 2006 Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award. The award honors a career contribution to the teaching of psychology and is named after Charles L. Brewer, Ph.D. whose career-long devotion and contributions to the teaching of psychology embody the purpose of the award.
APF’s teaching subcommittee seeks psychologists who have:
Exhibited exemplary performance as a classroom teacher
Developed effective teaching methods and materials or innovative curricula and courses
Conducted research on teaching
Trained psychology teachers and demonstrated administrative facilitation of teaching
Inspired students to become psychologists
The award winner receives a plaque, $2,000, and an all-expense paid round trip to APA’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the award will be presented (coach round-trip airfare and reasonable expenses for accommodations and meals will be reimbursed).
The nomination deadline is December 1, 2005. Nomination materials should include the application form (available online at www.apa.org/apf/brewer.html), a description of how the nominee fulfills the award qualifications and the nominee’s curriculum vitae and bibliography. Letters in support of the nomination are welcome. Mail complete nomination materials to the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching Award Coordinator, American Psychological Foundation, at the APA address or via Email .
Apply for the Millon Award in Personality Psychology
APA’s Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and the American Psychological Foundation (APF) seek nominees for the 2006 Theodore Millon Award. The APF-Sponsored, Division 12-administered award will be given annually until 2008 to honor a mid-career psychologist advancing the science of personality psychology. A division-appointed scientific review panel will select the recipient upon approval by the APF Trustees. Division 12 will present the next winner with $1,000 and a plaque at APA’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The awardee will also give a one-hour talk at the convention.
Nominations are due December 1, 2005. Nominees should have received their doctoral degree 8 to 15 years ago. Nominations should include an abbreviated curriculum vitae, up to two letters of support and a cover letter outlining the nominee’s contributions to the science of personality psychology in one or more of the following areas: personology, personality theory, personality disorders and personality measurement. Self-nominations are welcome.
Send nomination materials to Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., c/o Lynn Peterson, PO Box 1082, Niwot, CO 80544-1082. Please direct all questions to Lyn Peterson.
APF Accepting Nominations for Cummings PSYCHE Prize
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is now accepting nominations for the 2006 Cummings PSYCHE Prize, which recognizes a licensed practicing psychologist whose career demonstrates a plan to effect significant and enduring contributions to expanding the role of the psychologist as primary care provider, especially as this pertains to the co-location of psychologists as behavioral care providers (BCPs) working side by side with primary care physicians (PCPs) in the primary care setting of organized systems of healthcare delivery. The recipient will be presented with the $50,000 prize at the 2006 APA Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 10-13.
Licensed psychologists with a minimum of 10 to 15 years experience are eligible for the prize. Nomination packages must include: letter of nomination, including mentoring experience, training and development of other psychologists in the field; 1-2 page statement of accomplishments to date and plans for the next five years written by the nominee; and curriculum vitae. Self-nominations will be accepted.
The deadline for nominations is December 15, 2005. All materials should be e-mailed to the Foundation. For more information, visit www.apa.org/apf or at (202) 336-5843.
This prize is made possible by a generous contribution from the Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation.
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