Attend Div. 14's annual conference

The Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) Annual Conference, April 15–17 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, will feature more than 800 presentations highlighting ongoing research and studies on a wide range of workplace behavior.

On April 14, the division will offer pre-conference workshops on a variety of topics, including merging and shaping corporate cultures, developing management strategies and building a comfortable work environment.

For more information, visit the Div. 14 Web site at www.siop.org.

Apply for Div. 19 travel award

Div. 19 (Society for Military Psychology) is offering graduate and undergraduate students $500–$750 to travel to APA's 2005 Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., Aug. 18–21, to present a military psychology paper or poster.

To be eligible, students must be Div. 19 affiliates who are enrolled in good standing in a graduate or undergraduate psychology program. The applicant must be the first author on papers or posters with multiple authors.

The application deadline is May 1. For more information, visit www.apa.org/divisions/div19/focusonstudents.htm.

Div. 41 honors Bottoms

Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) presented Bette Bottoms, PhD, a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) psychology professor, the Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in the Field of Psychology and Law at the society's annual conference in March.

The award honors Bottoms for her work mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in a collaborative laboratory setting, supervising graduate teaching assistants, promoting the careers of junior colleagues and participating in new curriculum and course developments for the UIC psychology department and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Apply for Div. 52 awards

Div. 52 (International) is soliciting nominations of undergraduate or graduate students who have made outstanding contributions to international psychology. The division presents separate awards to graduate and undergraduate honorees. The division will present seven different awards:

• International experimental/experiential research.
• International comparative study.
• Descriptive study of large samples of mixed nationalities/cultures.
• Study of a transnational sample.
• Descriptive research or correlation study in a developing country.
• International theoretical/historical analysis.
• Case study of representative international or cross-cultural significance.

Division student affiliates whose work is based on their independent project, thesis or dissertation completed after June 2004 are eligible for the awards.

The deadline to apply is June 1. To apply, send a cover page, a one-page abstract along with the paper and a faculty endorsement attesting that the student is the author and principal investigator of the project. Send submissions as a Word attachment to Robert Ostermann, PhD. For more information, visit
www.tamu-commerce.edu/orgs/div52.

--Z. STAMBOR