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Psychologists in the news
July/August 2019, Vol 50, No. 7
Print version: page 79
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Headshots of psychologists in the news
The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors has presented psychologist Eleanor Feldman Barbera, PhD, with a bronze award for her psychology and aging column "The World According to Dr. El," which runs in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, a magazine for health-care professionals. Barbera, a consulting psychologist in New York City–area nursing homes, writes about important mental health issues in long-term care.
APA has named Dawnavan S. Davis, PhD, as its first chief diversity officer. Davis is responsible for infusing diversity and inclusion throughout the association’s work and for guiding and evaluating diversity-related activities in keeping with APA’s strategic priorities, policies and guidelines. Davis was previously the assistant vice president of community health at MedStar Health in Columbia, Maryland, where she developed the organization’s first diversity and inclusion strategic plan.
The International OCD Foundation has presented its 2019 Service Award to Reid Wilson, PhD, for his commitment to the care of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Wilson is the director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he runs intensive treatment groups for people with OCD and a free website on OCD and other anxiety disorders. He designed American Airlines’ first national program for fearful fliers.
Four psychologists have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Martin S. Banks, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Robert B. Cialdini, PhD, Arizona State University; Gordon Logan, PhD, Vanderbilt University (foreign associate member); and Linda Smith, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington. Election to the academy—one of the highest honors for a scientist—is based on distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The Society of Experimental Psychologists has presented its Howard Crosby Warren Medal to Nora S. Newcombe, PhD, of Temple University. The award for extraordinary achievement in experimental psychology recognizes Newcombe’s research on spatial development and the development of episodic and autobiographical memory. Newcombe is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple and an associate editor for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
Marvin M. Chun, PhD, the dean of Yale College, has won the Ho-Am Prize for Science, an award sponsored by Samsung that honors the scientific accomplishments of individuals of Korean heritage. Chun was recognized for his achievements in cognitive neuroscience. His laboratory at Yale uses fMRI to study visual attention, memory, perception, decision-making and performance.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Social and Developmental Psychology and Education section has elected 11 new fellows: Stephen J. Ceci, PhD, Cornell University; Jennifer Crocker, PhD, Ohio State University; Michele J. Gelfand, PhD, University of Maryland; Susan R. Goldman, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; Keith J. Holyoak, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; Mark Johnson, PhD, University of Cambridge; Brenda Major, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara; Roy D. Pea, DPhil, Stanford University; Margaret Beale Spencer, PhD, University of Chicago; John T. Wixted, PhD, University of California, San Diego; and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, PhD, New York University. Fellows are chosen for their exceptional scholarship, innovation and leadership. Once elected, they work on interdisciplinary projects to promote the public good.