Div. 2 presents teaching excellence awards

Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Awards, who will be honored at the division's social hour during APA's 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco:

• The Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award (for a four-year college or university): Bette Bottoms, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago.

• The Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award (for two-year college): Kim O'Donnell, PhD, Naugatuck Valley Community College.

• The Mary Margaret Moffett Memorial Teaching Excellence Award (for high school): Debra Park, West Deptford High School, West Deptford, N.J.

• The Early Career Teaching Excellence Award (first five years of full-time teaching): Tracy Zinn, PhD, James Madison University.

• The Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award (graduate student): Jessica Irons, Auburn University.

The division is now welcoming nominations for its 2008 Excellence in Teaching Awards. The nomination deadline is Jan. 18. For more information, visit www.teachpsych.org.

SIOP honors excellence in I/O psychology

Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) presented its top honors April 27 at its annual conference in New York City, attended by more than 4,500 people.

The division awarded W. Warner Burke, PhD, of Teachers College, Columbia University, the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award. Founder of the Teachers' College social-organizational psychology program, he is widely known for his research in organizational change, which has had enormous impact on the way companies adapt to new trends. He is also the co-director of the Eisenhower Leader Development Program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Ruth Kanfer, PhD, is this year's winner of the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Kanfer was honored for the "scientific value and impact" she has contributed to the field of motivation and work. She has produced notable research in how individual differences relate to motivation and the processes involved in acquiring work skills.

Charles Hulin, PhD, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, is this year's Distinguished Teaching Contributions award-winner. An emeritus professor of psychology, Hulin taught at the University of Illinois for 37 years. Highly respected and admired, his teaching and mentoring legacy produced a list of former undergraduate and graduate students that reads like a "Who's Who" in I/O psychology. He combined toughness, compassion, encouragement and constructive criticism in his quest to produce students who learned to do research of the highest quality.

Laura L. Koppes, PhD, of L-K Associates and the University of Kentucky, earned the Distinguished Service Contributions Award. Koppes was honored for her important service to SIOP, which included serving as editor of SIOP's quarterly publication for the past three years. She has also played an active role on various key committees.

Other honorees included Joyce Bono, PhD, of the University of Minnesota and Gilad Chen, PhD, of the University of Maryland, who both received the Distinguished Early Career Award. Bono and Chen were cited for their early-career accomplishments, which have marked them as I/O scholars with growing national reputations. Bono's scientific contributions include work in leadership, employee emotions and satisfaction at work. Chen's research has been in individual and group motivation working teams.

Div. 32 to host its first annual conference

"Humanistic Psychotherapies for the 21st Century," a conference focused on evolution in theory, research and practice, is the theme of the first-ever Div. 32 (Humanistic) annual conference, set for Aug. 14–16 at the San Francisco Airport Marriot, just before APA's 2007 Annual Convention. Attendees may earn up to 24 hours of continuing-education credits.

Featured presenters include Les Greenberg, PhD, Elizabeth Bugental, PhD, Jim Bugental, PhD, Mick Cooper, PhD, Natalie Rogers, PhD, Gary Yontef, PhD, Art Bohart, PhD, Kirk Schneider, PhD, Al Mahrer, PhD, David Rennie, PhD, Ilene Serlin, PhD, Kerry Moustakas, PhD, Maurice Friedman, PhD, Jeanne Watson, PhD, Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, Bob Resnick, PhD, Mark Stern, PhD, and Robert Elliott, PhD.

For a conference registration form, go to www.apa.org/divisions/div32 or contact Conference Chair David Cain, PhD, at e-mail.

Div. 38 offers teaching resources

The Education and Training Committee of Div. 38 (Health) maintains a collection of resources on teaching health psychology at all levels of education on its Web site, www.uwgb.edu/gurungr/healthpsychology.html.

Built with contributions from more than 50 division members and updated throughout the year, the site features sample syllabi, course demonstrations, class projects, suggestions for videos and other course enrichment resources, as well as a list of textbooks and reference materials.

The site also features a list of mentors—seasoned health psychology instructors who have volunteered to advise new instructors. Faculty interested in contributing to the site can contact the chair of the Education and Training Committee, Regan A.R. Gurung, at e-mail.

Div. 40 joins three divisions to present series on caring for returning military personnel

Div. 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) has teamed with Div. 19 (Military), Div. 22 (Rehabilitation) and Div. 38 (Health) to offer a series of cross-cutting symposia at APA's 2007 Annual Convention that will examine issues related to the care of military service members returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Rodney Vanderploeg, PhD, and Louis French, PhD, of Div. 40 will present information on traumatic brain injuries (TBI), with an emphasis on injuries resulting from blasts. They will discuss the ways blast-related TBIs differ from more typical brain injuries and the effects concomitant injuries and psychological sequelae may have on treatment and recovery.

Div. 41 announces Diversity in Psychology Research Award winners

Div. 41's (American Psychology-Law Society) Minority Affairs Committee congratulates its 2007 Diversity in Psychology Research Award recipients:

• Lindsay C. Malloy, doctoral student in psychology and social behavior, University of California, Irvine for her dissertation "Maltreated children's evaluations of the consequences of disclosing negative events."

• Samantha Schwartz, doctoral student in social psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln for her master's thesis "Effects of a cultural relativist argument on juror decision making in a sexual harassment trial."

• Ny Thi Tran, undergraduate student in psychology, Georgia Southern University for undergraduate research: "Examination of nullification instructions and foreperson race in jury deliberations."

• Femina P. Varghese, doctoral student in psychology, Texas Tech University for her dissertation "Understanding the factors that affect employability of soon-to-be released prisoners."

Div. 41 established The Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) to facilitate activities and develop opportunities within the division that embrace, respect and value diversity. The purpose of the awards is to support undergraduate and graduate research on issues related to psychology, law, multiculturalism and/or diversity. These awards are not exclusively to students from underrepresented groups, but are also for students who are conducting research related to the committee's general goals. For more information regarding the Diversity in Psychology Research Awards and/or the MAC, please contact Roslyn M. Caldwell, PhD, Minority Affairs Committee Chair, (212) 484-1197 or e-mail.

Div. 48 seeks submissions for book series and two positions

Div. 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology) welcomes submissions for its "Peace Psychology Book Series."

The series discusses the multifaceted problems of human security in the 21st century and challenges scholars in the field to demonstrate ways peace psychology can prevent and mitigate violence around the world. For more information, contact Publications Committee Chair Dan Christie (614) 292-9133, ext. 6244; e-mail.

The society is also soliciting nominations and applications for two positions:

• Internet editor for the peacepsych.org, who would be responsible for maintaining the society's home page; coordinating the content, functionality and appearance of all Web sites within the www.peacepsych.org domain; providing oversight for legal and technical issues involving online publication; and moderating the society's listservs. The editor must have basic competence in HTML coding and Web knowledge. The position reports to the society's executive committee and serves as a voting member of that committee. Those interested should submit a statement of interest, curriculum vitae and contact information to Linda Woolf at e-mail by Aug. 1.

• Graduate student and early-career working group chair. This position is filled by a graduate student or early-career psychologist, who serves as a voting member of the society's executive committee. Applicants should have a desire to recruit, mentor and link student members to mentoring opportunities and career information. Web skills are beneficial, but not required. Interested individuals should submit a statement of interest, curriculum vitae and contact information to Div. 48 President Dan Mayton, PhD, at e-mail by Aug. 1.

Div. 51 to host author, filmmaker in San Francisco

Div. 51 (Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity) will present invited addresses by Jean Kilbourne, EdD, and Neil Chethik, at APA's 2007 Annual Conference in San Francisco. The addresses are co-sponsored by Div. 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women).

Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her award-winning documentaries "Killing Us Softly," "Slim Hopes" and "Calling the Shots."

Divs. 51 and 35 invite their members to the second annual joint social hour to socialize and meet Kilbourne.

Chethik is an author, researcher and speaker specializing in men's lives and family issues (www.NeilChethik.com). He has written the books "VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework and Commitment" (Simon & Schuster, 2006) and "FatherLoss: How Sons of All Ages Come To Terms With the Deaths of Their Dads" (Hyperion, 2001).

For more information on these programs, contact Chen Oren, PhD, Div. 51 program chair, at e-mail.

In other division news, the four-hour continuing-education workshop, "Teaching the Psychology of Men," will be presented Saturday, Aug. 18 at APA's convention. Presenters include Jim O'Neil, PhD, Chris Kilmartin, PhD, Michael Addis, PhD, and Abigail Mansfield, PhD.

—D. Schwartz