APF's Campaign to Transform the Future sets higher goal
APF's campaign to Transform the Future is going strong, surpassing the $4.6 million mark. Thanks to the generosity of donors, APF has decided to increase the campaign goal to $6.5 million. There are now two years left to reach the foundation's $6.5 million goal.
The campaign seeks to increase funding for students and early career psychologists, which is especially critical in this time of decreased public funding.
Thanks to the campaign, in 2014, APF has been able to give $100,000 more in grants than was possible in 2013, providing $830,000 in funding for innovative projects and groundbreaking research. This funding goes to support early career psychologists, including Naama de la Fontaine, PhD, at Yale University Child Study Center. de la Fontaine will use her 2014 APF Visionary Grant to examine the impact of specialized training on police officers who respond to situations where children have been exposed to violence.
With your support, APF hopes to be able to provide more than $1 million a year for students and early career psychologists. Your donations help propel the field and our talented psychologists forward.
APF extends its sincerest thanks to everyone who has supported APF's Campaign to Transform the Future. To make a donation, go to Campaign to Transform the Future.
Whitbourne supports APF
Growing up, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, always enjoyed psychology and, after a life-changing conversation with her introduction to psychology professor in college, she has "never looked back."
Knowing she wanted to focus on gerontology, Whitbourne went on to attend Columbia University on a New York State Regents Scholarship and received her PhD in developmental psychology.
Now, as a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Whitbourne is proudest of the longitudinal study she has been conducting on University of Rochester alumni, who were first studied while they attended college in the 1960s. Having the advantage of inheriting the initial data set, Whitbourne is able to look at their personality development from college through retirement.
Whitbourne says she has been "very fortunate" with the success of her textbooks and her psychology-focused blog. That's why she and her husband, Richard O'Brien, recently made a $10,000 pledge to APF's Campaign to Transform the Future. "I feel like I've benefited a lot from psychology personally and through my writing and I wanted to be able to give back," she says.
When one of her students applied for an APF scholarship years ago, Whitbourne realized where APF scholarships were going: directly to the students.
"When you look at the awards that are given, you can see that this is intended to benefit people who wouldn't otherwise be able to achieve their goals in psychology," she says. "APF is carrying out its mission in an extremely effective way, so your money is being put to good use."
Announcing the winners of the APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships
The APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships are $1,000 to $5,000 general scholarships for graduate students in psychology. This year, 16 scholarships were awarded:
- Lawrence Houston, a fifth-year doctoral student in industrial/organizational psychology at Pennsylvania State University, received the $5,000 Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship for his project "Learning the Ropes: Impression Management and Inclusion Climate as Interactive Predictors of Newcomer Adjustment."
- Erica E. Coates, a fifth-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of South Florida, received the $5,000 William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship for her project "Non-resident Paternal Factors and the Psychological Adjustment of Black Adolescents from Single-Mother Households."
- Charles P. Brandt, a fifth-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Houston, received the $5,000 Charles and Carol Spielberger Scholarship for his project "Integrated HIV-Anxiety Management Reduction Treatment."
- Mary L. Woody, a fourth-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at Binghamton University, received the $3,000 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship for her project "Mechanisms Underlying Affective and Neural Reactivity in Remitted Depression: The Role of Brooding and Heart-Rate Variability."
- Victoria C. Oleynick, a master's student at the College of William and Mary, received the $2,000 Clarence J. Rosencrans Scholarship for her project "‘The Chills' Provides Embodied Feedback about Implicit Motives."
- Kelsie H. Okamura, a sixth-year doctoral student in child clinical psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, received the $1,000 William C. Howell Scholarship for her project "Examining Therapist Knowledge and Attitudes on Self-Reported Use of Evidence-Based Practice."
- Carey S. Pulverman, a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, received the $1,000 Peter and Malina James & Dr. Louis P. James Legacy Scholarship for her project "The Relationship Between Affective Appraisal of Physiological Sexual Arousal and Sexual Dysfunction Among Women with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse."
The following graduate students also received $1,000 scholarships:
- Matt R. Judah, Oklahoma State University.
- Katherine J. Forney, Florida State University.
- Craig F. Spiel, Ohio University.
- Sara R. Masland, Harvard University.
- Stephanie E. Wemm, State University of New York at Albany.
- Adam L. Putnam, the Washington University in St. Louis.
- Chelcie F. Heaney, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
- Jamie Casoff, McGill University.
- Stephanie K. Brewer, Loyola University of Chicago.
For more information on the APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Scholarships, visit the APFopens in new window website.
