Div. 1 seeks nominations for 2008 awards competition

Div. 1 (Society for General Psychology) seeks nominations for four awards:

• The William James Book Award.

• The Ernest R. Hilgard Award for a Career Contribution to General Psychology.

• The George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology.

• The Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology.

Each award winner will receive a certificate and a $1,000 cash prize. For criteria on each award, visit www.apa.org/about/division/div1.html.

Nominations and supporting materials must be received by Feb. 15. Self-nominations are welcome.

Div. 6 welcomes nominations for annual awards

Div. 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) seeks nominations for its annual awards:

• The D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, which honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in behavioral neuroscience or comparative psychology.

• The Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Service to Division 6 Award, which honors division members who have made sustained and exceptional contributions to the division.

• The Brenda A. Milner Award, which recognizes the author of an outstanding paper, published or in press, in the field of behavioral neuroscience or comparative psychology.

Nominations are due by March 1. Submit the name and institutional affiliation of the nominee, plus a short statement explaining why the nominee should win. A curriculum vita or list of publications is welcomed but not required.

Send nominations to Peter Balsam, PhD, at e-mail. For more information, visit www.apa.org/divisions/div6/.

Div. 13 meeting to cover innovative consulting

Div. 13 (Society of Consulting Psychology) will hold its 16th annual conference, "Consulting at the Leading Edge: New Ideas, New Approaches, New Markets," Feb 8–10 in Austin, Texas. Topics include executive coaching, assessment, leadership, family businesses, change management, succession planning and breaking into consulting psychology.

Keynote speakers are Bob Kegan, PhD, Harvard Business School, on "The Real Reason People Won't Change," Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on "The Challenges of Driving Change in a Large Bureaucratic Organization," and E. Wayne Baughman, PhD, National Security Agency, leading a panel on "Consulting in Intelligence Agencies."

Attendees can earn up to 20 hours of continuing-education credit.

For a conference registration form, go to www.div13.org or contact Lorraine Rieff and Associates at e-mail. Early-registration discounts are in effect until Jan. 1. For conference details, contact conference co-chairs Steve Kincaid at e-mail or Lyne Desormeaux at e-mail.

Div. 17 to hold 2008 international conference

Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) will hold the 2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference March 6–9 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. "Creating the Future: Counseling Psychologists in a Changing World" is the joint effort of three primary sponsors: Div. 17, the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs and the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies. The society's 13 sections are planning half-day or full-day conferences on March 6 before the larger conference opens.

Information about the registration, the program, section conferences, keynote speakers and the hotel are at www.icpc2008.org//. Students and early-career professionals are encouraged to attend as there will be specific programming focused on student and early-career professional development.

Attend military stress symposium

Military and other interested psychologists are invited to attend the symposium "Sustaining Performance under Stress" in Austin, Texas, Dec. 4–6. The program focuses on state-of-the-art cognitive and physiological research on soldier performance in challenging and dangerous situations.

Contact Div. 19 President Mike Matthews, PhD, at e-mail for more information.

Div. 36 announces new journal

Div. 36 (Psychology of Religion) has launched a journal, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, which will publish both quantitative and qualitative studies examining the psychological significance of religious and spiritual constructs, as well as theoretical papers that provide new syntheses of relevant literature. The journal will begin publication quarterly in spring 2009. Editor Ralph Piedmont, PhD, of Loyola College in Baltimore, will begin accepting manuscripts in January. (See a profile of Piedmont.)

In other division news, the Sixth Annual Research Conference on Religion and Spirituality will be held Feb. 28–March 1 at Loyola College in Maryland's Graduate Center in Columbia, Md. For registration forms and the call for papers, go to www.loyola.edu/pastoralcounseling/myc/index.html.

For more information, contact Brenda Helsing at e-mail.

Div. 50 announces new fellows

Richard J. Cohen, PhD, of the Philadelphia of Health Management Corporation, and Steven Y. Sussman, PhD, of the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, are two new fellows to Div. 50 (Addictions). The division also welcomes four current APA fellows who are now Div. 50 fellows: Doug Johnson-Greene, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kimberly C. Kirby, PhD, Treatment Research Institute, Eduardo Morales, PhD, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and Christopher S. Martin, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Div. 50 also honored several division members with awards this year: Kenneth J. Sher, PhD, of the University of Missouri, for Distinguished Scientific Contributions; Clayton Neighbors, PhD, of the University of Washington, for Distinguished Early Career Contributions; and Barbara S. McCrady, PhD, of the University of New Mexico, for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training.

Psychologist prescriptive-authority bill to be announced at midwinter meeting

The Missouri Psychological Association, the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, Div. 55 (American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy) and Div. 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) are co-sponsoring their 2008 midwinter conference in Missouri.

On Jan. 9 in Jefferson City, conference attendees will participate in a morning press conference announcing the introduction of the psychologist prescriptive-authority bill in the Missouri State Legislature at the start of the 2008 legislative session. Throughout the rest of the day, conference attendees will explain the advantages of prescriptive authority for the profession to lawmakers and listen to their concerns. From Jan. 10–12 in Kansas City, participants will discuss their state and regional advocacy priorities. APA Treasurer-elect Paul Craig, PhD, other APA leaders, and legislators will speak at the meeting.

To register, contact Carolyn Talboys at (417) 823-3409 or e-mail.

—D. Schwartz