The University of Texas at Austin has presented this year’s Rather Prize to Christopher Kazanjian, PhD, a professor of educational psychology at El Paso Community College. The Rather Prize is named for journalist Dan Rather and recognizes the best ideas to improve education in Texas. Kazanjian won $10,000 to further his work leading the local Kidz n’ Coaches after-school program, which engages Latinx youth in educational and recreational activities to support their social and emotional development.
The University of Delaware has named Laura A. Carlson, PhD, as its next provost. Carlson has been a member of the University of Notre Dame’s psychology faculty since 1994, and she has served as vice president, associate provost, and dean of the university’s graduate school since 2013.
The Society for Research in Psychopathology has presented its Joseph Zubin Lifetime Achievement Award to Deanna Barch, PhD, chair and professor of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), and professor of radiology and the Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. Barch has been a member of the WUSTL faculty since 1998, and her research focuses on understanding the deficits in behavior and cognition found in people with illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression.
The Rockefeller University has presented the 2022 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science to Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD, of Stanford University. Eberhardt won for her accomplished record in applying rigorous scientific methods to the behavioral study of race and her exceptional storytelling in her 2019 book Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.
The 39th Annual Winter Roundtable of Teachers College, Columbia University presented this year’s Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship to William Ming Liu, PhD. Liu is professor of counseling psychology and chair of the University of Maryland’s Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, and studies social class and classism, men, and White supremacy and privilege.
Dylan Gee, PhD, has won this year’s Graduate Mentor Award from Yale University, where she is an assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry. Gee is also this year’s winner of the Early-Career in Affective Science Award from the Society of Affective Science for her research on how early adversity in childhood contributes to the development of mental health disorders.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected seven new psychologists to its membership. They are: Avshalom Caspi, PhD, of Duke University; Jonathan D. Cohen, PhD, of Princeton University, Naomi Ellemers, PhD, of Utrecht University: James Gross, PhD, of Stanford University; Vonnie McLoyd, PhD, of the University of Michigan: Terrie E. Moffitt, PhD, of Duke University; and Rebecca R. Saxe, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Five psychologists have been elected to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. They are: Robert A. Bjork, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles; Alice H. Eagly, PhD, of Northwestern University; Megan R. Gunnar, PhD, of the University of Minnesota; Roberta L. Klatzky, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon University; and Isabelle Peretz, PhD, of the University of Montreal.