Participate in Div. 19, 21 joint meeting

APA Divs. 19 (Military) and 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering) invite submissions for papers, presentations and panel sessions for "Engineering and military psychology: improving lives and enhancing national security," the divisions' joint annual midyear symposium, to be held March 4-5 in Fort Belvoir, Va.

The meeting will highlight ways that engineering and military psychology improve people's lives while also enhancing national security. Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students are encouraged to participate in either paper or poster sessions, and will be eligible for Div. 19 awards for best graduate and undergraduate student papers and posters.

The submission deadline is Dec. 1. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Potomac Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. For more information or to propose a presentation or panel, contact John Ruffner, PhD, DCS Corp., 1330 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314; (703) 683-8430, ext. 243; e-mail: jruffner@dcscorp.com, or Mike Matthews, PhD, U.S. Military Academy, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, West Point, NY 10996; (845) 938-3696; e-mail: mike.matthews@usma.edu.

Proposals, reviewers sought for law and psychology conference

Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) seeks proposals for symposia, papers and posters for its 2004 annual conference, to be held March 4-7 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Topics in all areas of psychology and law are invited. International submissions and papers authored or co-authored by students are welcome. Conference organizers are especially interested in empirically based proposals and those that describe innovative applications of psychology to law and policy. The submission deadline is Oct. 1.

For instructions on how to submit proposals and for more information on the conference and venue, visit the conference Web site at www.fiu.edu/~apls2004.

Interested participants who are unable to submit proposals via the Web site should contact the conference co-chairs: Chris Meissner, PhD, (305) 348-3379; e-mail: meissner@fiu.edu, or Patricia Zapf, PhD, (212) 237-8775; e-mail: pzapf@jjay.cuny.edu.

The division is also seeking proposal reviewers. Interested division members, including students, may contact one of the conference co-chairs or sign up on the conference Web site.

Congratulations to Div. 54 student honorees

Div. 54 (Society of Pediatric Psychology) announces its four 2003 Student Travel Award winners. Winners received $250 toward travel to APA's Annual Convention in Toronto to present a poster as first author in the Div. 54 poster session.

The winners are:

* Janelle Wagner, of Oklahoma State University, for her research paper "A cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in juvenile rheumatic disease." Her faculty supervisor is John Chaney, PhD.

* Lisa Meltzer, PhD, a former graduate student at the University of Florida who is currently a postdoc at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, for her research paper "Social comparisons among children with cancer and their siblings." Her faculty supervisor was Mary T. Rourke, PhD.

* Jill Van Pelt, of Oklahoma State University, for her research on "Dispositional self-focus in college students with asthma." Her faculty supervisor is Larry Mullins, PhD.

* Molly White, of Oklahoma State University, for her research paper "Attributional style and depression in children with juvenile rheumatic diseases." Her faculty supervisor is John Chaney, PhD.

For more information on Div. 54 awards, contact Sharon Berry, PhD, at sharon.berry@childrenshc.org.

--J. CHAMBERLIN