Want to try your hand at editing?
APA's Publications and Communications (P&C) Board has opened nominations for the editorships of five journals for the 200409 term:
* Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.
* Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
* Journal of Family Psychology.
* Psychological Assessment.
* Psychology and Aging.
Candidates should be APA members and be available to start receiving manuscripts in early 2003 to prepare for issues published in 2004. Please note that the P&C Board encourages participation by members of underrepresented groups. To nominate candidates, prepare a statement of one page or less in support of each candidate and send to:
* Lucia A. Gilbert, PhD, and Linda Spear, PhD, for JEP: Animal Behavior Processes.
* Sara Kiesler, PhD, for JPSP: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
* Susan McDaniel, PhD, and Mark Appelbaum, PhD, for Journal of Family Psychology.
* Lenore W. Harmon, PhD, for Psychological Assessment.
* Randi C. Martin, PhD, and Joseph Campos, PhD, for Psychology and Aging.
The first review of nominations will begin Dec. 14. Address all nominations to the appropriate search committee at the APA address, c/o Karen Sellman, P&C Board Search Liaison, Room 2004.
Apply now for APA/Minority Fellowship Program
APA's Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) is accepting applications for its fellowship programs in psychology and neuroscience. The programs are designed to stimulate research interest in ethnic-minority mental health, and/or substance abuse, and/or HIV-AIDS, and provide financial support and mentoring to individuals pursuing doctoral degrees. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents, enrolled full time in a doctoral program at the time the fellowship is awarded (mental health and substance abuse services applicants must be in an APA-accredited program). Applicants must also demonstrate a commitment to a career in psychology related to research in ethnic-minority mental health/substance abuse/HIV-AIDS or neuroscience.
For details about each fellowship, see the September Monitor or contact APA through the information below.
Download an application from the MFP Web site at www.apa.org/mfp, request an application via e-mail at MFP or write to APA/MFP Fellowship at the APA address.
MFP Fellowship applications are available and will be accepted through Jan. 15.
APA attracts more students to its ranks
In September APA launched its annual poster campaign to promote student affiliation as well as PsycINFO® resources. Undergraduate and graduate psychology departments throughout the United States received posters and applications describing the benefits of student affiliate membership in APA. The benefits of APA student affiliation include subscriptions to the Monitor on Psychology and American Psychologist, discounts on APA books and journals, and other important information services.
If your department has not received the mailing or would like to receive additional posters or applications, contact Membership at the APA address or e-mail: Membership
Prompt payments ensure continued service in 2002
Member dues payments for 2002 must be returned to APA by Nov. 9 to ensure updated member records and continuous delivery of the Monitor on Psychology and American Psychologist. Paid membership also provides eligibility for APA Insurance Trust programs, use of the member journal credit on 2002 subscription orders and receipt of the APA membership card, which entitles members to discounts on consumer-service programs.
Members must return journal orders to APA by Nov. 19 to ensure uninterrupted delivery of journal subscriptions. Affiliates must also return fees and journal orders by Nov. 19 to ensure continued benefits and subscriptions in 2002.
Questions related to dues payments should be directed to Membership at the APA address; (800) 374-2721, (202) 336-5580; TDD: (202) 336-6123; fax: (202) 336-5568; e-mail: Membership Questions related to journal orders should be directed to APA Subscriptions: (800) 374-2721, (202) 336-5600; fax: (202) 336-5568; e-mail: Subscriptions.
APF introduces F. J. McGuigan Young Investigator Prize
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) announces a new $25,000 prize to recognize the efforts of a young psychological science investigator in areas of research consistent with those pursued by Frank Joseph McGuigan, PhD.
The McGuigan Fund will support the prize on a biennial basis, with the first prize to be given in 2002. APF will award the prize to the recipient's institution for the benefit of his or her research. Indirect costs will not be provided.
According to the bequest, "the prize is focused to support research, to explicate the concept of the human mind. The approach must be a materialistic one fostering both empirical and theoretical research. Empirical research would primarily be psychophysiological, but physiological and behavioral research may also qualify for support...dualistic approaches such as espoused by many contemporary cognitive psychologists do not qualify for support."
The recipient will be selected based on the excellence of research conducted and published to date, as well as the promise of research planned for the next five years.
Nominees must have earned a doctoral degree in psychology or a related field, and be nine or fewer years from their postdoctoral degree at the time of the nomination deadline. Nominees must show their affiliation with an accredited college, university or other research institution.
Nomination packages must contain six copies of each of the following:
* A letter of nomination written by a senior colleague (no self-nominations).
* A one- to two-page statement of accomplishments to date and plans for the next five years written by the nominee.
* A curriculum vitae.
* Copies of two representative publications. Deadline for receipt of nomination packages is March 1.
Send nomination packages to APF Frank Joseph McGuigan Young Investigator Prize, APA Science Directorate at the APA address. For more information, contact the Science Directorate.
Call for applications for 2002 Randy Gerson Memorial Grant
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is requesting proposals for the Randy Gerson Memorial Grant, which provides $5,000 toward advancing the systemic understanding of couple and/or family dynamics and/or multigenerational processes. Work that advances theory, assessment or clinical practice in these areas shall be considered eligible for grants through the fund. A strong preference will be given to projects using or contributing to the Bowen family systems theory. Priority will also be given to applicants furthering Gerson's work.
Individuals from a variety of professional or educational settings are encouraged to apply. To qualify, all applicants (including co-investigators) must have a doctoral degree.
For application procedures and additional information, contact APF Awards Coordinator/Gerson at the APA address; (202) 336-5814; e-mail. The deadline for applications is Feb. 1.
Proposals sought for lesbian and gay research
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) requests proposals for the 2002 Wayne F. Placek Research Awards and the Wayne F. Placek Small Grants program.
The Wayne F. Placek Research Grants award up to $40,000 for empirical research on topics related to lesbian, gay or bisexual issues from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences. Applications should propose new studies that can be completed in two years solely with the level of funding provided by the grant. Special preference for one of the two grants to be awarded will be given to applicants who have completed their doctorates within the previous seven years. The deadline for receipt of grant applications is March 8. Award recipients will be announced in August, and funding will begin Sept. 15.
The Wayne F. Placek Small Grants program awards up to $5,000 to cover the expenses of conducting an empirical research project on lesbian, gay and bisexual issues. Applications should propose a new study that can be completed in one year solely with the level of funding provided by the grant. All application materials for small grants must be received by Jan. 23. Awards will be announced in late March or early April.
Both awards are made through the Placek Fund, which encourages scientific research that increases the general public's understanding of homosexuality and aims to alleviate the stress that gay men and lesbians experience in this and future generations.
Proposals are especially encouraged for empirical studies that address the following topics: prejudice, discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation; family and workplace issues relevant to lesbians and gay men; and subgroups of the lesbian and gay population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research, especially racial and ethnic minorities. Applicants for both awards must have a doctoral-level degree and must be affiliated with a college, university or research institution that meets federal requirements for administering research awards.
Applications for both awards must conform to the APF Placek Grant Award guidelines. The application guidelines and forms may be downloaded from www.HookerPrograms.org.
Outstanding high school scholars recognized
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) and the Teachers of Psychology in Secondary School (TOPSS) have announced the award winners of the 2001 APF/TOPSS "Excellence in High School Student Research Competition."
The first-place winner is Johanna Waldman, a high school student from Roslyn Heights, N.Y., for the study, "Cheating to Make the Grade: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Academic Dishonesty." Waldman's model considered several factors that would predict cheating: academic pressures from parents, peers and self; the goal orientations of the student; and attitudes toward cheating. Waldman will receive a $1,500 scholarship.
Emanuel Hossein Steiner, a student from Bronx, N.Y., was awarded a $1,000 scholarship for the second-place ranking of his paper, "Xenophobia and Racial Proximity." The project compared attitudes toward people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds--and contact among those groups--in New York, Zurich and North Carolina.
The third-place, $500 scholarship was presented to Kejia Sun, a student from Irondale Senior High School in New Brighton, Minn., for the study, "Using fMRI to Find the Neural Basis Behind Absolute Pitch." Sun compared the brain activity of eight musicians who demonstrated absolute pitch capabilities with eight musicians and eight nonmusicians who did not have this capability.
Jenifer Anne Jewkes, of Carbon High School in Price, Utah, received fourth place and a $250 scholarship for the study, "The Effect of Sleep Restriction on the Cognitive Function of Elementary School Children." Jewkes investigated the effects of two-hour sleep deprivation on short-term memory, long-term retrieval, processing speed, comprehension, visual and auditory processing of patterns, fluid reasoning and quantitative skills of fourth-grade students.
APF and TOPSS also awarded three $1,000 scholarships for the APF/TOPSS Scholars Program Essay Competition, in which students analyzed research on empathy development in schoolchildren. Scholarships were awarded to Laura Deffley of Marion Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Ill.; Erica L. Durst of Shawnee High School in Medford, N.J.; and Rebecca Silverstein of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va.
--K. HEWLETT AND A. KIEL
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