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Yujie (Jessie) Zhan was selected by APA, NIOSH, and SOHP to receive the Best Student Research Award in Occupational Health Psychology. The purpose of the award is "to recognize and draw attention to the outstanding student research that is being conducted in Occupational Health Psychology."
The Charles J. Gelso Psychotherapy Research Grant has recently been announced by Division 29 of the APA (Society for Psychotherapy). The grant, which will be awarded on a yearly basis to research project of merit, was established to recognize Dr. Gelso's exceptional contributions to the field of psychotherapy and his service to Division 29 of the APA. Congratulations Charlie!
In addition to having won a President's Distinguished Service Award, Tony Chan has received a 2009 Board of Regents Honorable Mention Nonexempt Staff Award for "Exceptional Contribution to the Institution and/or Unit to Which the person Belongs." Congratulations Tony.
Colleen Byrne is running the Army 10 Miler on Sunday October 4 with the Give An Hour team . Give an Hour provides pro bono psychological services for active military and their families. You can learn more about Give an Hour by following the link below.
More Info: http://www.giveanhour.org
Emeritus Professor Forrest Tyler, a Board Member of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project, participated in the Lakeland Heritage Celebration on Sept. 19 and 20. The Celebration includes community relations, potluck dinners and collecting oral histories related to the Lakeland neighborhood. Lakeland was a distinctive African-American community that lived between Laural and DC from the 1890s to the 1960s. Many Lakeland residents worked at UMD although they were denied admission to it. You can learn more about Lakeland in the book "Lakeland: African-Americans in College Park" published by the Lakeland Community Heritage Project.
More Info: http://lakelandchp.com/
Because everyone in Psychology at UMD recognizes and is appreciative of the essential help and support Tony Chan provides to the department we are very happy to be able to announce that Tony has won the President's Distinguished Service Award. The Award will be given at the 26th Annual Faculty and Staff Convocation on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.
"Predicting Retirement Decision: A Meta-analytic Review" coauthored by graduate students Yujie Zhan and Songqi Liu and Dr. Mo Wang along with several others won the 2009 Best Paper Award from the Career Division of Academy of Management. The full citation for the paper is Zhan, Y., Liu, S., Murphy, L., Wang, M., Bodner, T., & Zhang, Z. (2009). Predicting Retirement Decision: A Meta-analytic Review. Paper presented at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Marcy Marinelli played in the 6th Jerry Wrenn Scholarship Golf tournament sponsored by the School of Public Health at the UM golf course. This tournament benefits the Jerry P. Wrenn Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship awarded by the School of Public Health.
Carol Gorham will be the Fundraising Chair for the NF Inc.'s 30th Anniversary Gala. NF Inc. supports people born with neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumor growth, disfigurement, learning disabilities and cancer. At this time, there is no known cure or effective treatment for this disorder. NF Inc. provides services to this community by funding educational seminars, children's camps, clinical and research programs. In her role, Carol is soliciting donations for the silent auction that will be held on October 8th. All donations are tax deductible. Please contact Carol at cgorham@psyc.umd.edu if you would like to make a contribution.
Glenn Moreton, the Psychology librarian, is offering library instruction sessions for psychology students. Sessions are designed to meet the specific research and instructional needs of individual courses. If you would like to reserve a session for your students (or if you have any questions) please contact Glenn at moreton@umd.edu or 301-405-9290
Professor Emeritus Dr. Benjamin Schneider was awarded the Michael R. Losey Human Resource Award by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) at the recent 2009 SHRM Annual Conference in New Orleans. This highly prestigious award acknowledges the major research accomplishments of human resource researchers who have significantly advanced the field of human resource management.
Dr. Kent Norman has been invited to provide an instructional session at the NSF sponsored Advanced Training Institute Web-workshop on Apache, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, August 13-15 at UCFS.. The workshop is designed to prepare researchers for Web-based experiments in psychology. Materials from the workshop will be used in Psyc 309J and Psyc 798J: Doing Psychological Research on the Internet during the Fall 2009 Semester.
The university has made Pubget available. Pubget indexes life science research documents, including those published in, Science, Nature, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, those indexed in PubMed and many others. You search Pubget by typing terms into the search field. Pubget gets you the PDF right away if UMD has a subscription. Click the url to access Pubget.
More Info: http://umd.pubget.com/
Mary Rooney, a graduate student working with Dr. Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, received the University's Goldharber Travel Award to present her research at the International Society for Research in Child & Adolescent Psychopathology conference in Seattle. Tuscano, Ph.D.
Dr. Michele Gelfand has been named a Distinguished University Scholar Teacher by the University (DUST) for 2009-2010. She will be giving a university wide lecture "The world is not flat: How culture shapes mind, behavior, and society" on Wednesday November 11th at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center at 4pm which will be followed by a reception.
A grant proposal submitted by NACS faculty for a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility on campus has been funded by the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program. This facility will substantially enhance our ability to conduct cutting edge research in human neuroscience and cognitive science. NACS faculty members come from a variety of departments including Bioengineering, Hearing and Speech, Human Development, Kinesiology, Linguistics, Psychology, and others.
The Banneker-Key Scholarship is the most prestigious and competitive scholarship that the University offers to incoming freshmen. The top tier of awards supplies the full cost of tuition, fees and room and board coupled with a book allowance for four years. The Psychology Department has 9 Banneker-Key Scholars among the incoming freshman class. This raises the total number of Banneker-Key Scholars in the departmenr to 33, more than 1/3 of the 95 Banneker-Key Scholars in all of BSOS.
Erika Hussey, NACS
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
1147 Biology/Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20742
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