The Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) has presented its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award to Sharon Mitchell, PhD, for her national leadership in the field of university counseling. Mitchell is the senior director for student wellness and director of counseling services at the University at Buffalo. She served as AUCCCD president from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, she served as a member of the association’s board of directors for 10 years.
California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) has appointed Richard Yao, PhD, as its new president. Yao has served as interim president of CSUCI since January 2021. He came to CSUCI in June 2018 after working at Nevada State College for nearly 12 years, serving first as a senior lecturer in psychology and later as dean of students.
Robin Holmes-Sullivan, PhD, will become president of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, in July in a flurry of firsts: She will be the first woman president, the first Black president, the first LGBTQ+ president, and the first person of color to lead the college. Prior to her 3 years as vice president of student life at Lewis & Clark, she was the vice president of student affairs in the University of California system for 3 years, and she spent 24 years at the University of Oregon in a variety of roles, including dean of students and vice president of student life.
Carlotta M. Arthur, PhD, has joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as the executive director of its Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. She previously served as director of the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in stem at the Henry Luce Foundation. Arthur trained as an engineer before pursuing psychology and was the first Black woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University.
Sixteen psychologists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by the association’s section on psychology. The new fellows are: Jerome Busemeyer, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington; Fernanda Ferreira, PhD, University of California, Davis; Leonard Green, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis; James J. Gross, PhD, Stanford University; Mary Hegarty, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ann M. Kring, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Ping Li, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Susan Kerri Lutgendorf, PhD, University of Iowa; Mark A. McDaniel, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis; Darcia Narvaez, PhD, University of Notre Dame; James R. Pomerantz, PhD, Rice University; C. Cybele Raver, PhD, Vanderbilt University; Patricia Ann Reuter-Lorenz, PhD, University of Michigan; Marilyn Stern, PhD, University of South Florida; Anne Tsui, PhD, Arizona State University; Edward A. Wasserman, PhD, University of Iowa.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences has presented the Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction to Sylvie Mrug, PhD. Her research focuses on the development of behavioral and emotional problems in adolescence. The prize recognizes Mrug’s scholarship, teaching, commitment to mentoring, and her leadership of the psychology department from 2017 to 2021.
Sport psychologist Richard Howell Coop, EdD, died in December 2021 at age 81. Coop had been on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 30 years. He worked with both college-level and professional athletes, including golfer Jack Nicklaus.