Mary Haskett, PhD, is one of two faculty members who received the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on adverse experiences in early childhood, particularly maltreatment and family homelessness.
Salisbury University has named Laurie Couch, PhD, as its next provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. Couch comes to Salisbury from Morehead State University in Kentucky. She will oversee academic policy and budgeting, curriculum, faculty development, student advising and support, enrollment and retention, assessment, instructional technology and accreditation, as well as university outreach.
Grace Kim, PhD, is the winner of the 2023 Boston University Provost’s ScholarTeacher of the Year Award, which recognizes scholars who excel as teachers and contribute to the art and science of teaching and learning. Kim is a clinical associate professor of counseling psychology and applied human development at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on social justice education and Asian American psychology.
Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, has named Michael Goh, PhD, as the next dean of its School of Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy. Goh currently serves as a professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.
Georgia State University has named Isha Metzger, PhD, as one of two recipients of the 2023 Dean’s Early Career Award. The award recognizes early career faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University who are emerging leaders in their field of research, scholarship, or creative activity.
Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD, has been named as dean of the college of education of the University of Oregon. McIntyre has served as interim dean since 2022; prior to that she served as chair of the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, director of the school psychology program, and director of the Prevention Science Institute. Her research focuses on prevention and early intervention to improve child developmental and behavioral health outcomes.
Claudia González-Vallejo, PhD, is the new program director for the Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining NSF, González-Vallejo taught psychology at Ohio University since 1996. Her research focuses on judgment and decision-making sciences, including judgment accuracy, predecisional dynamic processes underlying decision difficulty, and mathematical models of choice behavior.
Margie Lachman, PhD, is a corecipient of the 2023 Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Mentoring Award. Students praised her commitment as a PhD advisor and her guidance in the research and writing process. Lachman’s research is on life span development with a focus on midlife and later life.
Ben Gorvine, PhD, is one of seven Northwestern University faculty members being honored with 2023 University Teaching Awards. The prize recognizes professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Gorvine is a professor of instruction in the Department of Psychology at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
