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 on or before March 15. Self-nominations are welcome.

Attention Div. 9 members

Div. 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, SPSSI) has several announcements:

• SPSSI's Seventh Biennial Conference, "Disparities Across the Globe: Place, Race, Class, Ethnicity and Gender," will be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, June 27–29.

• SPSSI seeks nominations for editor of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI), SPSSI's flagship publication. The editor will assume responsibilities in June 2008 for the JSI volumes published in 2010–13.

• SPSSI invites applications for the newly created position of policy coordinator, who will help build an innovative policy program focusing on new ways to share our members' research and scientific expertise with advocates and policy-makers in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

• Members of SPSSI and APA are invited to apply for the James Marshall Public Policy Fellowship. Working in Washington, out of SPSSI's Central Office and APA's Public Policy Office, the fellow applies psychological research to analyze social policies and to advance organizational policy advocacy goals. Applicants must hold a PhD or PsyD and be available to start no later than September.

Visit the division's new Web site at www.spssi.org for more information about these and other SPSSI initiatives.

Div. 15 welcomes applications for dissertation research award

Div. 15 (Educational) invites its graduate student members to apply for a dissertation research award. The purpose of the award is to provide financial support for educational psychology doctoral students who are preparing to collect their dissertation data. Each award offers a $1,000 stipend.

Applicants must be graduate students who have submitted or defended dissertation proposals. Graduate students who are not already division members or affiliates can join at www.apa.org/about/division/memapp.html.

A completed application should contain: a brief summary of your dissertation work that includes a separate title page with full contact information; an abstract and contact information for your dissertation chair; a three- to four-page summary that includes the title of your study, statement of the problem, research question, hypotheses and proposed methodology (double-spaced, maximum 1,000 words, prepared for blind review); and a curriculum vitae.

Submit these components (in one e-mail with three separate e-mail attachments, saved as .doc files) to Michelle Gill. Include in the body of the e-mail your Div. 15 status (e.g., "member since April 2006"). Submissions must be received no later than 5 p.m. on May 1. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Div. 17 holds international conference

The 2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference, held in Chicago, will open on March 6 with miniconferences planned by the 12 sections of Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology). Below is a description of the themes, times and sponsoring groups for each mini-conference:

• "Health Disparities," sponsored by the Section on Ethnic/Racial Diversity and the Section on Health Psychology.

• "Strength-Based Approaches to Counseling Practice, Supervision and Training and Outreach in College and University Counseling Centers," sponsored by the Section on College and University Counseling Centers and the Section on Positive Psychology.

• "Contextual and Functional Diversity: Global Voices of Counseling Psychology," sponsored by the International Section.

• "Innovative Strategies to Facilitate Process and Outcome Research: Working with Small Samples," sponsored by the Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science.

• "Counseling LGBT Clients and Communities: Best Practices," sponsored by the Section on Independent Practice and the Section on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness.

• "Mentoring Conference,"sponsored by the Section on the Advancement of Women.

• "Returning to Our Roots: Toward a Vocational Science of Empowerment," sponsored by the Society of Vocational Psychology. To learn more about these mini-conferences and the 2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference, visit www.icpc2008.org.

Div. 19 and Div. 21 host midyear conference

Divs. 19 (Society for Military Psychology) and 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology), along with the Potomac Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, are hosting their annual midyear conference on March 6–7 at George Mason University.

The theme of this year's conference is "Distributed Cognition: Teams, Technology, Family and the Individual." For more information on the conference, visit www.apa.org/divisions/div19 or www.apa.org/divisions/div21.

Div. 22 and Div. 38 to hold annual conference in Arizona

Div. 22 (Rehabilitation) in conjunction with Div. 38 (Health) and the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology (ABRP) present the 10th annual conference in Rehabilitation Psychology, April 4–6 in Tucson, Ariz. This conference includes clinical and scientific presentations in rehabilitation psychology and health psychology, information and assistance with ABRP board certification and opportunities for networking.

Topics will include brain injury, spinal cord injury, blast-related trauma, chronic pain and substance abuse, sexuality, ethics, outcomes measurement, employment, psychopharmacology and public policy in disability, and chronic health conditions. It includes formal presentations and informal roundtable discussions on student issues and women's issues in rehabilitation psychology, and pediatric rehabilitation psychology. For more information, visit www.div22.org.

Div. 24 to hold first midwinter meeting

Div. 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) will hold its first midwinter meeting Feb. 22–24 in Miami. For more information, visit the division's Web site: http://soe.indstate.edu/div24.

Div. 36 will hold midyear conference

Div. 36 (Psychology of Religion) will be holding its annual midyear conference on research on religion and spirituality Feb. 28 to March 1 at the Columbia Graduate Center of Loyola College in Baltimore. Registration materials are available at the division's Web site at www.apa.org/divisions/div36 or by contacting Brenda Helsing or (410) 617-7614.

Div. 41 holds annual conference in March

The 2008 Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) conference, "Bridging the Discipline," will be held in Jacksonville, Fla., March 5–8.

In addition to more than 300 research presentations, workshops will be available on legal, statistical and clinical topics. Charles Whitebread, JD, of the University of Southern California Law School; Don Andrews, PhD, of Carleton University, Canada; and Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD, of Stanford University, will deliver invited addresses. Also, a plenary is planned based on the HBO Academy Award- winning documentary "Murder on a Sunday Morning," about a 15-year-old African-American who was falsely accused of murder. His story involves mistaken eyewitness identification, police interrogation, a false confession, racial bias and other forensic psychology topics. Researchers and practitioners will examine this provocative case in an informative and multidisciplinary panel.

In conjunction with the division's Minority Affairs Committee, the conference will be hosting local college students and advisers from McNair programs and Historically Black Colleges and Universities at the Building Bridges to New Scholars Luncheon in which the students will hear a presentation about the division and be provided with informal networking opportunities.

For more information, visit www.ap-ls.org/conferences/apls2008/index.html.

Nominate for Div. 46's News Media Recognition Award

The News Media Recognition Award for excellence in the reporting of psychological information and research is an annual award given to a journalist, reporter or producer from either print or broadcast media.

The recipient of the News Media Recognition Award will be announced at APA's 2008 Annual Convention in Boston, Aug. 14–17.

If you would like to nominate a journalist, reporter or producer who has a track record of excellence in reporting about psychology and/or mental health issues or policy, contact Elizabeth Carll, PhD, chair, Div. 46, News Media, Public Education, Public Policy Committee at e-mail or (631) 754-2424. Deadline for nominations is May 1.

Div. 48 announces new chair of student and Early-Career Working Group

George Mason University student Silvia Susnjic is the new chair of the Student and Early Career Working Group of Div. 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence). Susnjic seeks to organize and energize graduate students and early-career psychologists to integrate peace psychology issues into their professional activities. Her top priorities are networking and mentoring with senior peace researchers and practitioners. To become involved with this group, contact her at e-mail to get involved with this working group.

Div. 56 establishes two task forces

Div. 56 (Trauma) initiated a task force to examine psychologists' roles in national security interrogations from the perspective of trauma. There has been much controversy over the last several years about APA's policies permitting psychologists to have a limited role in national security interrogation procedures. Numerous questions have been raised and numerous perspectives have been offered on this issue. This task force will address this issue from the perspective of psychologists who specialize in traumatic stress with the goal of offering novel ideas to the discussion and decision-making about this complicated subject. The chair of the task force is Nnamdi Pole, PhD, of the University of Michigan.

In other division news, the division established a task force to study the needs of military and of the extended families of the military with a specific emphasis on the needs of veterans and their families after return from deployments to war zones. The task force will study the diagnosis and treatment of soldiers with transient stress, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury as well as the secondary trauma suffered by the extended families of these soldiers. The task force will also work on prevention of intergenerational transmission of trauma.

—D. Schwartz