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I am happy to report that Irv Gottesman has received the Alexander Gralnick Investigator Prize from the American Psychological Foundation of APA. The Gralnick Prize is given biennially to “exceptional individuals working in the area of serious mental illness". It comes with a $20,000 research stipend. Irv will accept the award at the upcoming APA convention, where he will also be giving an invited plenary address.

Irv received his Ph.D. from and is currently a Senior Fellow in our Department. Please join me in congratulating Irv on receiving this prestigious award.

Gordon Legge

The winner of SPSSI's (The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) Applied Social Issues Internship Award for the 2008 competition is Mark Snyder.

The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award is presented annually to honor "outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action." As this year's recipient of the award, Dr. Snyder has accomplished these goals in every way.

The 2008 Award Committee consisted of Dr. Brenda Major, University of California, Santa Barbara (Chair); Dr. Daphne Bugental, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dr. Jack Dovidio, Yale University; and Dr. Louis Penner, Hudson-Webber Cancer Research Center.

Congratulations go to Professor Rich Lee who was elected as a Fellow of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) this year. Additionally, he was selected to receive the Okura Community Leadership Award which is given to an individual who “demonstrates outstanding community service and/or leadership that benefits the Asian American community.”

This is great recognition for Rich's contributions.

Best,

--Gordon

The Asian American Studies Department is pleased to announce that Professor Rich Lee has received the Asian American Psychological Association's prestigious K. Patrick Okura Award for community service and leadership.

FYI: There is a new and improved online for updating our roster. So if anything has changed. New office, new lab, new phone number, new to our dept please fill out this online form so we can have our rosters up-to-date at all time.

http://online.psych.umn.edu/forms/central/roster.htm

The Office of Classroom Management's project to remodel N119 Elliott is underway.
Here is a summary of the project (information provided by OCM):

The fixed tables in N119 have been removed, along with the stage at the front of the room. The tables will be replaced with movable ones. Those tables will arrive in early to mid August. The chalkboard has been removed and will be replaced with a marker board, and carpet has already gone down in the room. The walls will all be painted. No significant changes are expected in the room capacity.

Similar changes will take place in N647 Elliott, but the work won't start until mid to late July, when the classes in there are complete.

Bookmark this site!

www.deptid.umn.edu

Starting July 1, 2008, the University will be using a new Enterprise
Financial System (EFS) from PeopleSoft to handle all University
Financial transactions.

The old department identifiers (Area/Org etc.) will be replaced with a
new set of identifiers, so this website has been created to help you
find the new account numbers.

The new numbers from this page should now be accurate, but
our Service Team Senior Accountant, Eman Ausman
(ausm00007@umn.edu or 5.4126) is the most authoritative
source for these numbers.

Please check with Eman if you have questions.

http://online.psych.umn.edu/forms/index.html

Clinical Science doctoral student Lindsay Nelson was chosen by peer review as a 2008 Student Grant Competition Winner. The Student Caucus of the Association for Psychological Science presents awards for research each year. There were four winners of this award, and winning students were given the opportunity to present their research in a session at the 20th Annual APS Convention in May in Chicago. Have a look at http://www.psychologicalscience.org/apssc/awards/grant_2008.cfm for information about Lindsay's research.

Dear Psychology Colleagues,

Bruce Overmier has a truly honorific summer ahead of him. He is scheduled to receive TWO honorary doctorates. Congratulations Bruce!

On June 18, the University of Montreal will confer an honorary doctorate on Bruce. He will deliver remarks at the university convocation.

On August 29, the University of Bergen (Norway) will confer an honorary degree on Bruce, doctor honoris causa. The award letter reads “ … particular emphasis was placed on your central role in psychological research within fields such as learning studies, memory, stress and psychosomatics, your important contributions to research politics, as well as your long term and valuable cooperation with the University of Bergen.”

We all take great pride in this splendid international recognition of Bruce’s wide ranging contributions to psychological science.

--Gordon

Due to the efforts of Kemal Badur of CLA-OIT, the College and, ultimately, the entire University will be on an unlimited site license for SPSS. The software will be available in 2009 to all University users for installation on any University-owned computers attached to the University network.

As a bridge program, SPSS has offered the College a special site license for June 2008 to June 2009 toward which the Department contributed about
$3,500. This site license will cover the costs of installing SPSS on
any Department-owned and networked computer. As you know, this is a
huge savings and the Department is pleased to provide this for all of
our instructional and research staff.

The SPSS software will be available June 2, 2008. Meanwhile, please continue to use any SPSS install you may have, as long as you are able. Please notify Carla at 4-7076 or bates014@umn.edu if there are problems using your old copy until we are able to install a new one.

NOTE: If you have renewed your license since April 1, 2008, we are able to arrange for a reimbursement. Please forward to me your renewal email and the CUFS number you used.

Dear Colleagues,
Please join us in congratulating Magdalena Wojtcazk and Christophe Micheyl. Magdalena and Christophe are Research Associates in the Department. Both were approved this week to use the working title of Research Assistant Professor. We are very proud of their records of accomplishment!

Sincerely,
Monica Luciana and Gordon Legge
Chair's Office

It's a pleasure for me to tell you that John Campbell is a recipient of the 2008 University-wide award for Outstanding Directors of Graduate Studies. Most of us in Psychology already know of John's enormous contributions over the years to the quality and vitality of our graduate program. It's certainly fitting that the University has now recognized John for this crucial contribution.

Please join me in congratulating John for this splendid recognition.

--Gordon

Psychology department chair, Gordon Legge will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) on June 1, 2008. Conferral by the Board of Trustees will take place at the commencement ceremonies for the State College of Optometry. This is a high honor given to a select few. As the degree criteria states, “the eminence of the person must be widely recognized by the leaders of the field, which the person may represent.”

Please join us in congratulating Gordon for this extraordinary honor.

I'm delighted to tell you that Holly Hatch-Surisook has won a 2007-08 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. This is a highly competitive, university-wide award. Please join me in congratulating Holly on this splendid recognition for "...sustained and substantial contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota ..."

As most of you know, Holly has played the key role in building our academic advising program. We have a program in which we can take great pride, thanks to Holly's creativity, hard work and commitment. Just think about how many Psychology students have benefited from Holly's advice, and from the input they have received from our excellent advising staff.

We all take pride in this wonderful recognition of Holly's contributions to our department and university.

--Gordon