Div. 2 book earns praise

"Measuring Up: Educational Assessment Challenges and Practices for Psychology" (APA, 2004), a book published by APA's Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 by Choice magazine, a publication of the American Library Association.

"Measuring Up" was edited by division fellows Dana S. Dunn, PhD, of Moravian College; Chandra Mehrotra, PhD, of the College of St. Scholastica; and Jane S. Halonen, PhD, of the University of West Florida, Pensacola. The book helps psychology teachers demonstrate student learning, track and measure achievement and gauge the quality of their teaching.

Div. 14 conference to be held in Dallas

Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) will hold its 21st annual conference May 5-7 in Dallas.

The meeting will feature more than 600 presentations highlighting ongoing research on a range of human behaviors in the workplace. The conference is expected to attract more than 3,200 workplace scientists.

On May 4, Div. 14 will offer 14 pre-conference workshops on topics including global talent management, executive retention, understanding of corporate and national cultures, maximizing e-learning, employee assessment and selection, employment law updates and understanding the financial context of organizations.

Division President Leaetta Hough, PhD, also president of The Dunnette Group in St. Paul, Minn., will deliver the keynote address at the conference's Friday morning plenary session. The annual division awards and fellows will also be announced during the session.

For more information about the conference, check the division's Web site at www.siop.org.

Call for Div. 19 student award submissions

Div. 19 (Society for Military Psychology) is offering its annual Military Psychology Research and Travel Awards to recognize the contribution of students in the field of military psychology.

The Military Psychology Research and Travel Awards assist graduate and undergraduate psychology students with costs associated with conducting research in any area related to the advancement of military psychology. The travel award also provides funding for student travel to professional conferences to present their completed or in-progress research.

The research award will be presented to at least one student whose research reflects excellence in military psychology. The entry deadline is May 1. Instructions and application materials are available on the Div. 19 Web site at www.apa.org/divisions/div19/militarypsychology1.html.

Submit applications to Lt. Angelique C. DeMoncada, PhD, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799.

Div. 22 forms new section

Div. 22 (Rehabilitation) has formed a second section, Women's Issues in Rehabilitation Psychology. The section emphasizes the role of women in practice, public policy, education and research. It seeks to broaden the division's membership base of women with and without disabilities and support the importance and input of women as service providers, advocates, teachers and researchers.

Goals include expanding women's presence on division committees and sections and forging alliances with other disciplines that have similar goals. The newly elected section co-chairs are Marie DiCowden, PhD, and Marcia Scherer, PhD. For more information, contact the section through the division Web site at www.apa.org/divisions/div22/WomeninRehabPsychSection.

Apply for Div. 25 awards

Div. 25 (Behavior Analysis) is soliciting nominations for its award program. Award recipients will be honored at APA's 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 17–20, and will present on their work as part of the awards ceremony. The division is accepting nominations for the following awards:

• Don Hake Basic/Applied Research Award for research that bridges the basic/applied continuum of behavior analysis.

• Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award for contributions to the advancement of empirically validated educational practices.

• B.F. Skinner New Researcher Award for innovative research in behavior analysis conducted within seven years of receiving a doctorate.

• Outstanding Basic Research Award for a research program that furthers our understanding of basic behavioral processes.

• Outstanding Applied Research Award for a research program on applications of behavioral principles to address socially significant human behavior.

• Dissertation Awards recognizing one dissertation in applied research and one in basic research.

Contact Div. 25 Awards Committee Chair Gregory J. Madden, PhD, via e-mail for more information or to submit a nomination. Completed nominations must be received by Sept. 1.

Div. 42 sponsors student poster contest at convention

Div. 42 (Independent Practice) has planned a student poster session and programming in its hospitality suite as part of its offerings at APA's 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Aug. 10–13. Keep an eye out for programming updates on the division's Web site: www.division42.org.

The poster session, sponsored by the division's Student/Early-Career Psychologist Committee, will be held in conjunction with the division's social hour on Aug. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. Questions about proposal submissions may be directed to Tara Wagner. Div. 42 will bestow travel awards to defray the costs of attending the convention to the top five poster submissions.

In its hospitality suite, the division will offer presentations, discussion groups and book sales for students, early-career psychologists and seasoned clinicians. The programs will offer opportunities for dialogue, meeting book authors, learning about how to enhance a practice and honoring colleagues living in New Orleans. The hospitality suite programming will be posted on the Div. 42 Web site later this spring at www.division42.org.

Take part in 5K run and walk at convention

The Running Psychologists—a section of APA Div. 47 (Sport and Exercise)—will host the 28th annual Ray's Race Run and Walk during APA's 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans.

The event is slated for Aug. 12 at 7 a.m. in Audubon Park. The park has an out-and-back loop that is 95-percent traffic-free. The race site is 4 miles from the convention hotels, and buses will transport participants to and from the race site. Raffle prizes donated by exhibitors as well as awards for overall men's and women's winners, top age group finishers, the first finishers who are Psi Chi/Psi Chi National Council members and first male and female Exhibit Hall vendors will be awarded at the conclusion of the race.

The entry fee before July 29 is $15 for students and Div. 47 members and $20 for nonmembers. Registration for each entrant after July 29 is $25.

Registration includes a commemorative T-shirt, raffle entries, music and postrace refreshments. The theme for this year's race will be "Run for Resilience," and $1 of each participant's fee will be donated to a New Orleans charity. T-shirts and awards will have New Orleans themes and will be designed and produced by local artists. The division encourages all APA convention attendees and their families to participate. For more information, visit www.psyc.unt.edu/apadiv47/running.html.

Abu-Nimer receives Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award

Psychologist Mohammed Abu-Nimer, PhD, has won the fourth annual Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award from APA's Div. 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence). Abu-Nimer, a professor at the Peacebuilding and Development Institute of the School of International Service, was honored for his outstanding contributions to the integration of theory and practice in conflict resolution.

Born into a Muslim community of northern Israel, Abu-Nimer facilitated dialogue among Arab and Jewish communities in his 20s before moving to Jerusalem to develop Arabic peace education curricula. In 1987, he immigrated to the U.S. and earned his PhD at George Mason University, studying in the school's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Abu-Nimer's areas of study include the application of conflict-resolution models in Muslim communities, interreligious conflict resolution training and the evaluation of conflict-resolution programs.

The annual award is open to scholars and practitioners from all areas of study. For more information on the award, visit www.webster.edu/peacepsychology.

Div. 52 launches new activities, seeks book proposals

Div. 52 (International) has initiated several new activities and programs, including:

• The division is co-sponsoring a new book series on "Global and Cross-Cultural Psychology" to be published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Uwe P. Gielen, PhD, and Harold Takooshian, PhD, will edit the series. The series will include volumes that address a variety of psychological topics from international, cross-cultural, cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Send book proposals to Gielen.

• Division President Joy K. Rice, PhD, has initiated a new Committee on Immigration and Refugees. This committee is chaired by Fred Bemak, EdD, and Oksana Yakusko, PhD.

• The division established a new task force on mentoring early-career professionals, with Irene Frieze, PhD, as chair and Florence L. Denmark, PhD, as co-chair.

• Past-president Norman Abeles, PhD, and Div. 46 were awarded an interdivisional grant from the Committee on Division/APA Relations for their proposal on ethics, national security and the media. The division will use the funds to send one or two nonpsychologist experts on military interrogation to APA's 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Aug. 10–13.

Register for Div. 55 pre-convention workshop

On Aug. 9, the day before APA begins its Annual Convention in New Orleans, Div. 55 (American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy) is sponsoring a daylong pre-convention workshop on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) conducted by Russell Barkley, PhD.

The workshop will provide detailed, current information on the nature of ADHD in children, teens and adults and the search for the ADHD genome type. A new theory of ADHD will be presented that provides an enriching, comprehensive and dignifying view of the disorder.

Registration fees are $175 for Div. 55 members; $200 for nonmembers; $110 for Div. 55 student members; $125 for students who aren't Div. 55 members.

To register, contact Div. 55 Administrator Ruth Helein via e-mail.

—E. Packard

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