Administrative Updates & Announcements
We regret to announce that Orbe Walther will be leaving the
Department of Psychology. Orbe has accepted the position of Departmental
Administrator in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS).
Her last day in the department is Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Please, stop by her
office to congratulate her on this promotion and opportunity!
Awards & Accomplishments
Emeritus Professor Bruce Overmier is this year's winner of the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Bruce was selected from among seven nominees. Bruce will be presented with the award at the APA convention and will deliver the Hebb lecture. The meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada from August 6-9.
Here is more information about the award: The D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award honors a psychologist who has made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in behavioral neuroscience and/or comparative psychology. The candidate does not have to be a member of Division 6, but is expected to present the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Lecture at the 2015 APA Convention.
Congratulations to Bruce on this well-deserved honor!
Emeritus Professor Irving Gottesman has been honored with the 2015 CLA Alumni of Notable Achievement (ANA) award. The CLA Alumni of Notable Achievement (ANA) program was created in 1994 as part of the college's 125th anniversary to celebrate and honor the significant achievements and contributions of its alumni. All ANA honorees have been nominated by CLA alumni, faculty, and staff. Of the college's 120,000 living graduates, approximately 1,300 have been selected as recipients. By honoring its alumni, the college recognizes and celebrates not only their singular accomplishments but also the collective depth and breadth of their interests, talents, career paths and achievements in all sectors of society.
Professor Deniz Ones co-authored an American Psychological Association article
titled “Study: Older Workers Bring Valuable Knowledge to the Job - But Younger
Workers Display Superior Reasoning Abilities”. The article can be found online here.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Moin Syed in our Counseling Psychology area, who has just been awarded an Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award for 2014-15. Moin received inspirational letters from his current and former students in support of his nomination for the award. We are enormously proud of his achievements as a teacher and mentor.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Moin Syed in our Counseling Psychology area, who has just been awarded an Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award for 2014-15. Moin received inspirational letters from his current and former students in support of his nomination for the award. We are enormously proud of his achievements as a teacher and mentor.
Assistant
Professor Moin Syed has also been elected as President of the Society for Research on Identity Formation
(SRIF). SRIF is the premier international society for the study of identity
development. Dr. Syed will begin his two-year term as President-elect in May
2015, followed by two years as President from 2017-2019.
The Department of
Psychology is very pleased to announce that two of our junior honors majors, Erin Begnel and Manju Connolly, were awarded the prestigious College of Liberal
Arts Talle Family Scholarship for 2015-16. Talle Family Scholars
exemplify what a liberal arts education makes possible and provide powerful
evidence that CLA is a destination college for talented, motivated students.
Only ten awards were made across the College. The awardees receive full tuition
scholarships to support them in their senior year. Congratulations Erin and
Manju!
Upcoming Events
2015 Psychology Undergraduate Celebration
Friday, May 8, 2015
4-6pm at the Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend
the upcoming recognition celebration for psychology undergraduate students.
This annual event recognizes our outstanding undergraduate achievements and
graduating seniors. Those recognized
will include:
Donor Awards for
Psychology Undergraduate Engagement recipients
Spring 2015 Degree
Applicants
Mortensen Scholarship
& Award recipients
Donald G. Paterson
Scholarship Award
Select CLA,
University and National Scholarship recipients
Outstanding
achievement in the Major Project: The Sharon Borine Award
2014-15 UROP
recipients
2014-15 Psi Chi
Inductees
Please forward any
questions to Holly Hatch-Surisook hhatch@umn.edu.
If you plan to
attend, please RSVP at http://z.umn.edu/pucrsvp no later than this Sunday, May
3rd!
Thank
you for your support of our undergraduate students!
