Announcements
Department Receives APA Award
The Department of Psychology was the recipient of the 2008 American Psychological Association "Department Award for Culture of Service in the Psychological Sciences." The Department "exemplifies what a culture of service to the discipline should be, through its support of faculty serving on national boards and committees, editing journals, reviewing grant and research proposals, mentoring students and colleagues, participating on university committees, and providing services to the public. The department demonstrates its commitment to service by providing faculty role models and treating service as a valued part of academic activity." Read more.
Faculty Awards
Annette M. La Greca- President of the American Psychological Association, Alan E. Kazdin presented a presidential citation to Annette M. La Greca. 'In recognition of three decades of outstanding contributions to science, practice, and education within the fields of clinical child and pediatric psychology.' Complete Text.
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
2009 Graduate Student Awards
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award:
- Robert Oum, Ryan Landoll
- Kirk R. Danhour Memorial Award:
- Lori Eisner, Ximena Dominguez, Stephanie Fitzpatrick
- Dr. Carol Alson-Finement Award:
- Dolores Farhat
- Bertha Weber Award:
- Betty Lai
- Peter Mundy CARD Award for Clinical Research in Autism:
- Nicole McDonald
- Keith Scott CARD Award for Developmental Research in Autism:
- Lisa Ibanez
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.