The University of Michigan named Stephanie Preston, PhD, new faculty ombuds in the Office of the Provost. Preston will be a resource for faculty and resolve academic and administrative concerns and disputes. Preston has been a professor of psychology in the University of Michigan psychology department since 2005.
The University of Georgia has named Jeanette Taylor, PhD, its next vice provost for academic affairs. Taylor is currently the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of psychology at Florida State University. She joined Florida State University in 2000 and has held many roles, including psychology department chair and director of clinical training.
Monique Ward, PhD, has received the University of Michigan’s Academic Women’s Caucus 2023 Sarah Goddard Power Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made positive contributions to women’s health and well-being through their leadership, scholarship, or other professional endeavors.
The January 19, 2023, issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education featured University of Detroit Mercy assistant professor of psychology Miao Qian, PhD, on the cover as one of the publication’s 2023 emerging scholars. Qian’s research focuses on child social cognition, particularly determining where racial biases emerge in childhood and how to reduce them.
The University of Oregon has selected Katie McLaughlin, PhD, to lead The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. McLaughlin currently directs the Stress and Development Laboratory at Harvard University where she is also a professor of psychology. Her research examines how adverse environmental experiences shape emotional, cognitive, and neurobiological development in ways that contribute to the emergence of psychopathology in children and adolescents.
Stockton University professor emeritus of psychology Michael Frank, PhD, and his wife, Maureen Frank, have endowed a new Stockton University Foundation scholarship with a $50,000 gift. The couple established the Michael and Maureen Frank Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Psychology to inspire recipients to conduct and publish psychological research. During his tenure, Frank saw many first-generation students struggling financially while trying to complete their education, and hopes the award will help more students continue their research.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced its slate of 2023 lifetime fellows. Fifteen scientists were chosen for the Section on Psychology: Christine Dunkel Schetter, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; Kara D. Federmeier, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jean E. Fox Tree, University of California, Santa Cruz; Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Susan A. Gelman, PhD, University of Michigan; Jill Martine Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Gregory Scott Hickok, PhD, University of California, Irvine; Sheri L. Johnson, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Grazyna Kochanska, PhD, University of Iowa; David J. Lewkowicz, PhD, Yale University; James S. Magnuson, PhD, University of Connecticut/Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language; Richard E. Mayer, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Mary C. Murphy, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington; and Linda A. Teplin, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
