PEOPLE

Louise Evans, PhD, earned Northwestern University?s Merit Award, which is given to the university?s successful alumni. Evans, an APA member and a retired private practitioner in Beverly Hills, is an alumna of the university?s College of Arts and Sciences.

Evans is active in 20 professional organizations and a fellow in 16 of them, including APA. She earned her clinical psychology doctorate at Purdue University, which has also honored her with a distinguished alumna award. The American Biography Institute paid tribute to her contributions to human services by presenting her with a Lifetime Achievement Award last year.

Psychologist Mark Greenberg, PhD, will direct the Center for Prevention Research at Pennsylvania State University. Greenberg won an endowment through the school?s College of Health and Human Development that establishes him as head of the new center.

The center will develop projects that bring together Penn State faculty and the surrounding community to promote youth health and prevent social and academic failure in children and youth. Greenberg joined the university?s faculty last fall as professor of human development and family studies and will continue to teach at the university and conduct research on promoting social competence in youth and families. He is a member of APA?s Presidential Task Force on Prevention Research and Training.

Greenberg is the first recipient of the endowment, which is named the Edna Peterson Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research. Edna and C. Eugene Bennett, two former Penn State students, bestowed the chair to the university to support research and community outreach that boosts competence in children and families.

Psychologists Virginia Richards, PhD, and Jeffrey Schall, PhD, are winners of the National Academy of Sciences? (NAS) Troland Research Awards, which recognize experimental psychologists for outstanding contributions to science. They each will receive $35,000 to support their research. NAS honored Richards for her contributions to research on auditory perception. She studies the perception of complex sounds using psychophysical techniques to study low-level auditory processing and the brain mechanisms that segregate multiple sound sources. She is associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Schall won for his contributions to the understanding of how the brain computes visual information. Schall, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, runs a vision research laboratory at Vanderbilt. There, he studies monkeys performing visuomotor tasks to identify the brain mechanisms that program and guide eye movement.

NAS presents the Troland awards in April at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Social psychologist Dalmas Taylor, PhD, the founding director of APA?s Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), died in January at age 64. At the helm of MFP, Taylor boosted the recruitment of minority students in psychology departments across the United States. Taylor was dedicated to the educational growth of minority students and to increasing the ethnic diversity of psychology throughout his career.

Taylor served on the graduate school faculty of the University of Maryland?College Park for 21 years, as professor of psychology and as associate dean of research. He left Maryland to act as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of psychology at Wayne State University, and then as provost and senior vice president of the University of Vermont. After that, he spent three years as provost and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent post was as vice president for academic affairs at Lincoln University, in Lincoln, Pa.

Taylor was active in APA during his years in academe. He served as president of Divs. 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) and 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues). Taylor was known for his research on group conflict, bereavement, minority mental health and racial prejudice. ?Dalmas was a natural leader, a wise and accomplished politician and administrator, a mentor and teacher,? says James Jones, APA?s director of the MFP and a close friend of Taylor?s.

Taylor was raised in Detroit, and he earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware. He is survived by his wife, Faye, their three daughters and one grandson. Taylor?s family would like to establish a minority student scholarship in his memory. Contributions can be sent to the American Psychological Foundation, at the APA address.Y

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