- The Association for Applied Sport Psychology has awarded Colleen Hacker, PhD, its Distinguished Professional Practice Award. Hacker is a professor of sport and exercise psychology in the department of kinesiology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She works with Olympic and professional athletes and teams, and has served on five Olympic coaching staffs including women's soccer, field hockey and ice hockey.
- Philip D. Harvey, PhD, has won two awards. Harvey, the director of the Division of Psychology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was honored with the Veterans Health Administration John Blair Barnwell Award, the highest VA honor for clinical research. He is the first psychologist to win this award. Harvey also recently won the American Psychiatric Foundation's Alexander Gralnick Schizophrenia Research Award. Harvey studies cognition, severe mental illness and neuropsychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, dementia and Parkinson's disease.
- The Michigan State University Foundation has named Kelly Klump, PhD, the MSU Foundation Professor, a title that honors faculty who have made outstanding contributions to teaching and scholarship. Klump is a psychology professor who conducts research on the causes of eating disorders.
- The Institute of Medicine has elected psychologist Catherine Lord, PhD, to its membership. Election to the institute is one of the highest honors in health and medicine. Lord is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is known for her research on children with autism and her role in developing autism diagnostic instruments.
Personalities
American Psychological Association. (2015, January 1). Personalities: January 2015. Monitor on Psychology, 46(1). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/01/personalities