The University of California, Berkeley, has named Victoria Plaut, PhD, as its new vice provost for the faculty. Plaut is known for her work and research in the psychological science of diversity. She is also the Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. Plaut previously served as the chair of Berkeley’s campus-wide academic personnel committee and as the law school’s associate dean for equity and inclusion.
Sian Leah Beilock, PhD, will serve as the first elected woman president of Dartmouth College starting on July 1, 2023. Beilock is a cognitive scientist and the current president of Barnard College. She has raised Barnard’s eminence in STEM to parallel its renown in the arts and humanities, and led the college to record fundraising, increased applications for admission, and diversity among students, faculty and staff. Before joining Barnard, Beilock spent 12 years at the University of Chicago, where she was the executive vice provost, an officer of the university, and the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology.
Muhlenberg College appointed Sarah Brooke Vick, PhD, as its first chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion. As the chief diversity officer, Vick serves as part of the president’s senior staff and as the chair of the President’s Diversity Advisory Council, where she will collaborate with the president to identify annual priorities. Previously, Vick was an associate professor of psychology at Muhlenberg and, before that, served in a similar position at Whitman College.
Rosalyn Davis, PhD, has won one of the first Luminary Awards from the Indiana University Kokomo (IUK) Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs. The award recognizes her efforts to create a more diverse, inclusive environment on campus. A few of her accomplishments at IUK include establishing safe space training for faculty and staff, mentoring minority students, and moderating the first of a town hall series of community conversations about issues of race and racism in the United States.
Cornell University has presented the Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship to Laura Niemi, PhD, for her work teaching applied moral psychology through community-engaged learning. Niemi is an assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences and of management and organizations in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She focuses her research on the psychological underpinnings of why and how people judge each other and decide what is right and wrong.
The University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Letters and Science presented Daniel Conroy-Beam, PhD, with the Harold J. Plous Award. Conroy-Beam is a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Psychology & Brain Sciences and directs the Computational Mate Choice Lab. His research focuses on computational explorations into the psychology of dating and relationships.
Congratulations to APA’s award winners
APA and the American Psychological Foundation presented awards to psychologists and students for excellence in scholarship, teaching, practice, and more at the association’s convention in Minneapolis in August. Read about the winners and their work.opens in new window