Award for distinguished career contributions to education and training in psychology: Richard M. Suinn.

The Awards for Distinguished Education and Training Contributions are given by the Education and Training Awards Committee in recognition of the efforts of psychologists who have made distinguished contributions to education and training, who have produced imaginative innovations, or who have been involved in the developmental phases of programs in education and training in psychology. Each year the committee presents two of these awards. The Distinguished Career Contribution Award recognizes continuous significant contributions made over a lifelong career in psychology; the Distinguished Contribution Award recognizes a specific but major contribution to education and training. The 1993 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology is Richard M. Suinn. Suinn's citation, biography, and selected bibliography are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contribution to psychology in the public interest: Patrick H. DeLeon.

The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest presents two awards annually to persons who, in the estimation of the Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest Awards, have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary contribution or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. One award is presented to a senior psychologist, and the other recognizes a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest less than 15 years after the receipt of his or her degree. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography of one of the 1993 recipients of this award, Parick H. DeLeon, are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for distinguished education and training contributions: 1988.

The Education and Training Board Awards were given for the first time in 1987 and include the Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology, which recognizes a long-continued record of accomplishments, and the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education and Training in Psychology. These awards are given to recognize psychologists who make traditional contributions to education and training in psychology, "who provide innovations or who are involved in developmental phases of programs that influence education and training," who are engaged in important research on education or training, the development of effective materials for instruction, or the establishment of workshops, conferences, or networks of communication for education and training; who exhibit achievement and leadership in administration that facilitates education and training; or who are active in professional organizations that promote excellence. The 1988 award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology was presented to Stanley F. Schneider. Leonard Bickman and Joseph Grosslight were jointly honored for a Distinguished Contribution to Education and Training in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contribution to psychology in the public interest: Laura C. Leviton.

The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest presents two awards annually to persons who, in the estimation of the Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest Awards, have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary contribution or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. One award is presented to a senior psychologist, and the other recognizes a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to the public interest less than 15 years after the receipt of his or her degree. This article presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for one of the 1993 recipients of this award, Laura C. Leviton. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished career contributions to education and training and award for distinguished contributions to education and training.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training and the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training are given by the Board of Educational Affairs in recognition of the efforts of psychologists who have made distinguished contributions to education and training, who have produced imaginative innovations, or who have been involved in the developmental phases of programs in education and training in psychology. These contributions might include important research on education and training; the development of effective materials for instruction; the establishment of workshops, conferences, or networks of communication for education and training; achievement and leadership in administration that facilitates education and training; or activity in professional organizations that promote excellence. Each year one of these two awards is presented. The Distinguished Career Contributions Award recognizes continuous significant contributions made over a lifelong career in psychology; the Distinguished Contributions Award recognizes a more specific contribution to education and training. This year the Education and Training Awards Committee nominated a psychologist for the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training. The 2010 winner of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training is Rosemary E. Phelps. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contribution to research in public Policy: Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe.

The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest confers the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy upon a psychologist who has made a distinguished empirical and/or theoretical contribution to research in public policy, either through a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of work. This contribution might include research leading others to view specific national policies differently, research demonstrating the importance of the application of psychological methods and theory to public policy, or research clarifying the ways scientific knowledge of human behavior informs public policy. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography of the 1993 recipient of this award, Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contributions of applications of psychology to education and training.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training acknowledges psychologists who contribute to new teaching methods or solutions to learning problems through the use of research findings or evidence-based practices. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of psychological knowledge to improve learning in educational settings, including prekindergarten to Grade 12, or in communities. The 2010 winner is Michael Cole. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Robert M. Nosofsky.

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent young psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Robert M. Nosofsky, one of the 1993 recipients of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (Cognition/Human Learning), are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished career contributions to education and training in psychology: Rex Lloyd Forehand.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Rex Lloyd Forehand, the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. An article by Forehand is also presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished career contributions to education and training in psychology: Stanley F. Schneider.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Stanley F. Schneider, the 1988 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished career contributions to education and training and award for distinguished contributions to education and training.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Rex Lloyd Forehand, the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. An article by Forehand is also presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contributions of applications of psychology to education and training.

The Board of Educational Affairs is pleased to bestow the Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. This award acknowledges psychologists who contribute to new teaching methods or solutions to learning problems through the use of research findings or evidence-based practices. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of psychological knowledge to improve learning in educational settings, including prekindergarten to Grade 12, or in communities. The 2008 recipient is Richard E. Mayer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Michael Cole: Award for distinguished contributions of applications of psychology to education and training.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training was awarded to Michael Cole, for his study of the role of education in the learning and development of people from different cultures. His research combines experimental and ethnographic methods with Russian and American theories of the educational process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for distinguished contributions to education and training: Cynthia D. Belar.

Cynthia D. Belar is one of the recipients of the APA's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training. As a professor, scholar, clinician, educator, and administrator, Cynthia D. Belar has greatly influenced graduate education, internship training, postdoctoral fellowship opportunities, diplomate recognition, and emerging areas of health psychology. She is widely recognized as the most experienced, tactful, and zealous organizer of national conferences in psychology. Most recently, she developed national conferences to examine the scientist-practitioner model and postdoctoral education. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contribution to research in public policy: Stanley Sue.

The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest confers the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy upon a psychologist who has made a distinguished empirical and–or theoretical contribution to research in public policy, either through a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of work. This contribution might include research leading others to view specific national policies differently, demonstrating the importance of the application of psychological methods and theory to public policy, or clarifying the ways scientific knowledge of human behavior informs public policy. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography for this year's (1996) awardee, Stanley Sue, are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rosemary E. Phelps: Award for distinguished contributions to education and training in psychology.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology was awarded to Rosemary E. Phelps, for her long-term commitment to the development of the Preparing Future Faculty program, her recruitment and retention of students of color, and her work in racial and ethnic identity development. Rosemary E. Phelps’s focus on the scholarship of teaching in higher education and her research on the academic experiences of students and faculty across multiple professional endeavors, including race-related stress, are singular in their impact and implication. Her incorporation of advocacy as a core professional skill and the application of her work to other professions have opened up new avenues for understanding multicultural training factors and graduate scholarship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contributions of applications of psychology to education and training: Richard E. Mayer.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Richard E. Mayer, the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. An article by Mayer is also presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contributions to the international advancement of psychology: ?igdem Kagit?ibasi.

The Committee on International Relations in Psychology confers the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology to an individual who has made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and advancement of knowledge in psychology. The citation, biography, and selected bibliography of the 1993 recipient of this award, ?igdem Kagit?ibasi, are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished contributions to education and training in psychology: Leonard Bickman and Joseph Grosslight.

Presents the citations, biographies, and selected bibliographies for Leonard Bickman and Joseph Grosslight, the 1988 joint recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for distinguished contribution to psychology in the public interest: Durand F. Jacobs.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Durand F. Jacobs, one of the recipients of the American Psychological Association's Awards for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest. From the awardee's citation: "For his lifetime dedication to innovative techniques in rehabilitation psychology and to assuring the humane treatment of the elderly, and for his many contributions in promoting human welfare through rigorous research. For three decades, Jacobs has been in the forefront of research on pathological gambling, defining it as an addiction and organizing effective treatment modalities for those pathologically addicted. He has also been a leader in the definition and organization of disaster relief responses, developing the California model plan adopted by the APA Council of Representatives. His contributions have made a significant difference in countless individual lives and have advanced the role and perception of our discipline as contributing to human welfare in real and direct ways." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)