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Awards & Accomplishments
Professor Alex Rothman was elected President-Elect
of American Psychological Association's Division 38 (Division of Health
Psychology). He will serve as President of the Division during
2015-2016.
Professor Richard Lee was interviewed for Gazillion Voices, an online magazine for their podcast which will also be broadcast on KFAI in the near future.
Emeritus Professor Bruce Overmier has been selected
by APA's Board of Education Affairs (BEA) as one of two winners of the
Outstanding Graduate Teaching of Psychology as a Core STEM Discipline
Award for 2014. This is the inaugural year for this new award. According
to the APA, the award "recognizes the contributions of a graduate-level
professor whose teaching contributions exemplify psychology as a core
science among the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) disciplines. Teaching contributions include excellence in
mentoring of graduate students, outstanding teaching both within the
university and beyond in the broader community of psychological
scientists, and effective leadership roles that foster the educational
mission of advancing psychology as a core STEM discipline at the
doctoral level. Also considered were the candidate's own scientific
contributions to psychology, and how they have affected the production
of psychological scientists who have pursued scholarship in basic
psychological science."
Emeritus Professor Irving Gottesman was named one of the 30 most influential psychologists working today by website Best Masters in Psychology.
Two undergraduate majors were selected as recipients for the Summer 2014 Donor Awards for Psychology Undergraduate Engagement. This recognition comes with a $500 monetary award. Nicole Kaegi
will be volunteering with Walker's Point Youth and Family Center in
Milwaukee, WI in their Runaway and Crisis Teen Program and Shelter.
Nicole will be working as a counselor assistant and a positive adult
role model for the teenagers in the shelter. Lauren Zima
will be observing Occupational Therapy sessions in an inpatient
rehabilitation setting through MarionJoy Rehabilitation Hospital in
Wheaton, IL. Lauren will use this opportunity to better inform herself
about the OT profession and serve as a source of support for patients.
Graduated
Congratulations to our May 2014 Ph.D. graduate!
Rachel Burns
Area: Social
Advisor: Alexander Rothman
Dissertation Title: Can We Pay People to Act
Healthily? Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Incentive Dimensions
and Underlying Psychological Mediators
Bo-Yeong Won
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisor: Yuhong Jiang
Dissertation Title: Visual statistical learning and its impact on spatial attention."
