The University of North Carolina Wilmington's Board of Trustees has presented its Teaching Excellence Award to psychology professor Caroline Clements, PhD. The award honors faculty who go beyond what is required to support students and challenge them in the classroom. Clements directs the department's Experimental Psychopathology Lab and has taught at UNCW since 1997. She also received the school's Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award this fall.
The Human Behavior and Evolution Society has presented its Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Marco Del Giudice, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico who directs the Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology Lab. Among his research projects, he has developed an evolutionary-developmental model of sex differences in attachment stylesopens in new window.
Tracy Hejmanowski, PhD, has won the Peabody Caregiver of the Year Award from the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control. The award recognizes an active-duty or civilian caregiver within Navy Medicine's mental health community who has demonstrated compassionate concern for patients and outstanding mental health care skills, values and attitudes. Hejmanowski is a clinical psychologist at Naval Hospital Jacksonville's Deployment Health Center, where she has introduced innovative programs for combat-related post-traumatic stress, including SCUBA dive training, equine therapy, progressive exposure, family programs and a telepsychology program.
The Society for Research in Psychopathology has presented the Joseph Zubin Award to Steven Hollon, PhD. The award honors lifetime contributions to the understanding of psychopathology. Hollon is a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University who studies the treatment and prevention of depression.
The American Medical Association has appointed Randy Phelps, PhD, APA's senior advisor for health-care financing, to its prestigious and highly influential work group of the AMA's Relative Value Scale Update Committee, commonly known as the "RUC." The 14-member Time-Intensity Workgroup is charged with developing new approaches to valuing services in the nation's health-care system. This is a key appointment for APA since it guarantees psychology has a seat at a very important table.
Laura Stevens, PhD, a teacher in South Portland, Maine, is among this year's winners of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest recognition that a kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. As part of the honor, Stevens received $10,000 from the National Science Foundation.
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has given its 2016 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award to psychologists Becca Levy, PhD, of Yale University; Alan B. Zonderman, PhD, of the National Institute on Aging; and Susan Resnick, PhD, of the National Institute on Aging; as well as Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, of the National Institute on Aging; Martin D. Slade, MPH, of Yale University; and Juan Troncoso, MD, of Johns Hopkins University. The GSA award recognizes insightful and innovative publications on aging and life course development in the behavioral and social sciences. The winning paper found that people with more stress-inducing negative age stereotypes earlier in life had more biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease later.