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Hortensia Amaro, PhD, and Rand Conger, PhD, have joined the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Advisory Council, the group that oversees NIDA's scientific programs and reviews the institute's grant applications.

Amaro is professor of social and behavioral sciences in the School of Public Health at Boston University. She is serving on the council's treatment subcommittee, which is working to translate research on effective clinical approaches to addiction treatment into practice. She also serves on the children and adolescent subcommittee, which is identifying priority areas for prevention research.

Conger is professor of sociology and psychology at Iowa State University. He is working on a subcommittee of the advisory council that is investigating the developmental factors in substance abuse risk.

Furman University psychology professor Charles Brewer, PhD, has been named the university's William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in Psychology. The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust established the Kenan professorship at Furman in 1970.

'Appointment to a Kenan chair at Furman has long been regarded as the premier recognition of superb teaching and scholarship,' says A.V. Huff, Furman's dean and vice president for academic affairs. 'Charles Brewer is richly deserving of this honor.'

Brewer has been a member of Furman's faculty since 1967. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the American Psychological Foundation's Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award and APA's Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training Award.

Lisa Freund, PhD, has accepted a post as program director in the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Freund plans to develop a research and training program to promote a better understanding of the links between the developing brain and behavior. Best known for her neuroimaging studies with children, Freund has worked in the fields of developmental neuroscience, developmental psychology, learning disorders and behavioral and molecular genetics. She has served as associate professor of psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Practitioner and educator Ronald Goldstein, PhD, has died of cancer at age 55. Goldstein was a professor of psychology in the department of social and behavioral sciences at Bucks County Community College in Bucks County, Pa., for more than 26 years. According to colleagues, he was one of the first psychologists who pushed for adding a course in human sexuality to psychology curriculums. Goldstein also managed a private practice in Yardley, Pa., where he specialized in family psychology. He earned his PhD from Temple University in 1966.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has named psychologist Richard M. Suzman, PhD, as its new associate director for Behavioral and Social Research (BSR). Psychologist Ronald Abeles, PhD, the previous associate director for BSR, has accepted a new assignment in the director's office at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR).

Suzman brings a strong background in social and behavioral science to his new post. As chief of NIA's Demography and Population Epidemiology Unit, director of the institute's Office of the Demography of Aging, and creator of its Economics of Aging program, Suzman made the NIA a focal point for aging research within the federal government and internationally. Prior to joining the NIA, Suzman held academic research positions at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University.

At OBSSR, Abeles will foster international collaborations on aging research and coordinate an NIH briefing series on behavioral and social sciences research. He also plans to direct special NIH projects, including one to promote behavioral genetics research.

-Compiled by Jamie Chamberlin

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Army psychologist Settles promoted to full colonel

Carl Settles, PhD, was promoted to colonel of the U.S. Army on Oct. 1 at a packed ceremony hosted by his former boss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas). Settles worked for Hutchinson in 1996 as an APA Congressional Fellow. The promotion to colonel caps off Settles' 17 years of military service as a counseling and clinical psychologist.

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. He taught in Austin, Texas for several years and then went back to school to earn a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

He began his psychology career working as the associate director of counseling services at Prairie View A&M University, where one of his duties was helping recruit minority students for the university.

While assisting in the recruiting effort, Settles's enthusiasm impressed the military recruiters he came in contact with. One of them strongly influenced Settles's decision to join the Army in 1981.

Settles's military career highlights include a three-year post at Camp Zama in Japan, where he directed the installation's community counseling center. He earned several awards for his work supporting military families and personnel at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. And, starting out with only one master's-level provider on his team, he developed a psychology program with a staff of six psychologists at Fort Hood, Texas.

As an APA congressional fellow, Settles investigated military quality-of-life issues, worked on veterans' affairs and served as the Senator's primary liaison with the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on state and national issues.

Settles so enjoyed the pace of the nation's capitol, he made his next stop the Pentagon. As an Army Legislative Liaison officer, he is the main adviser on defense and health-care issues to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and the Army Surgeon General. Settles plans to leave the Pentagon this year and move back to Texas.

He will be deputy chief of behavioral health at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.

-J. Chamberlin



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