Announcements
Faculty Awards
Charles S. Carver- Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and his longtime collaborator Michael F. Scheier of Carnegie Mellon University, received the Donald T. Campbell Award for distinguished lifetime contributions to social psychology in February 2008. The award, from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology recognizes Carver and Scheier's longstanding collaborative research on a control process model of self-regulation, developed to understand how people regulate their behavior to achieve goals, and when and why self-regulation fails.
- Jutta Joormann
- The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Scholarly and Creative Activities Award
2008 Graduate Student Awards
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award:
- Catherine D'Avanzato, Ryan Landoll
- Kirk R. Danhour Memorial Award:
- Yael Avivi, David Barker, Connie Myerson
- Dr. Carol Alson-Finement Award:
- Ann-Marie Faria
- Bertha Weber Award:
- Nathan Doty
- Peter Mundy CARD Award for Clinical Research in Autism:
- Caley Schwartz
- Keith Scott CARD Award for Developmental Research in Autism:
- Vanessa G. Jarquin
New Grants
Neil Schneiderman is the Principal Investigator of the University of Miami Field Center for the NIH funded Hispanic Community Health Study. This $61 million 6.5 year project will be the largest long-term epidemiological study of health and disease in Latin Americans living in the United States. With a budget of $10 million the Miami site will provide physical examinations and interviews to 4000 Miami Hispanic/Latinos between 18 and 74 years. Whereas the Miami site is expected to examine a preponderance of Cuban Americans as well as a fair number of South and Central Americans, the other sites in San Diego, New York, and Chicago will focus primarily on Mexican, Puerto Rican or South/Central Americans.