Volume 21: No. 1, January 2007

Small Program has a Big Year!
by Stephanie Cox

The Science Directorate's Scientific Conferences Grant Program, established in 1987, recently awarded grants totaling $67,850 to nine institutions! The high number of proposals received made the selection process difficult.

Grants awarded from the June 1 and December 1 Call for Proposals are listed below:

Chaos and Children's Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms
Gary Evans, Cornell University; Theodore D. Wachs, Purdue University
$10,000

Festschrift in Honor of George Sperling: Frontiers in Human Information Processing -Vision, Attention, Memory, and Application
Barbara Anne Dosher and Charles Chubb, University of California- Irvine
$5,000

Festschrift in Honor of Michael Lewis: Contributions to the Study of Emotional and Social Development
Barbara Louis and Margaret W. Sullivan, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
$5,000

Ohio University Conference on Interrogations and Confessions
G. Daniel Lassiter, Ohio University; Christian A. Meissner, University of Texas at El Paso
$8,000

Tufts University Initiative on Emerging Trends in Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Semantics
Robert Cook and Gina R. Kuperberg
$6,750

The Neural Systems of Social Behavior
Jennifer Beer, University of Texas, Austin
$10,000

Festschrift for K. Warner Schaie
Steve Zarit, Pennsylvania State University
$10,100

2007 Courage Summit
Cynthia Pury, Clemson University
$3,000

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Recent Advances in Infantile Origins, Early Childhood Detection, & Intervention
Lewis Lipsitt, Brown University
$10,000

The purpose of the Conferences Grant Program is to promote the exchange of important new contributions and approaches in scientific psychology. The tightening of institutional funding has made this program even more important to psychological scientists as they seek outside sources to support scientific conferences.

A review committee of APA members makes conference grant award decisions. Members of this committee are: Oscar Barbarin; Anita Davis; Michael Domjan; Kathleen McDermott; Kevin Murphy; James W. Pennebaker.

For more information, please see the Scientific Conferences Grant program webpage at www.apa.org/science/confer2.html. The next deadline is June 1, 2007.