David Lubinski.

David Lubinski is acknowledged for methodologically and conceptually rigorous contributions to differential psychology. His use of the theory of work adjustment has illuminated critical constellations of personal attributes that promote academic excellence and world-class eminence, especially in the sciences. His framework for identifying early signs (and different kinds) of intellectual distinction also points to ways to facilitate its development. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Lubinski's works are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training.

Presents the 2003 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. A list of the members of the APA committee who selected the recipient for this year and a list of the previous recipients of this award from 1999 through 2003 are provided. The award recipient for 2003 is David W. Johnson. The award citation, biography, selected bibliography and the award address by Dr. Johnson are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished teaching in psychology awards.

The Distinguished Teaching in Psychology award, which includes a check for $1,000, is given to the recipient for his or her contributions to the teaching of psychology. The following guidelines are used to determine the recipient: (a) demonstrated influence as a teacher of students who become outstanding psychologists, (b) development of effective teaching methods and/or teaching materials, (c) engagement in significant research on teaching, (d) development of innovative curricula and courses, (e) outstanding performance as a classroom teacher, (f) being an especially effective trainer of teachers of psychology, and (g) being responsible for administrative facilitation of outstanding teaching. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished teaching in psychology: Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

The Distinguished Teaching in Psychology award, which includes a check for $1,000, is given to the recipient for his or her contributions to the teaching of psychology. The following guidelines are used to determine the recipient: (a) demonstrated influence as a teacher of students who become outstanding psychologists, (b) development of effective teaching methods and/or teaching materials, (c) engagement in significant research on teaching, (d) development of innovative curricula and courses, (e) outstanding performance as a classroom teacher, (f) being an especially effective trainer of teachers of psychology, and (g) being responsible for administrative facilitation of outstanding teaching. This article provides a citation and a biography for Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., one of the recipients of the award for Distinguished Teaching in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ronald E. Fox.

While maintaining an active career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator, Ronald E. Fox has made important contributions to the field of education in professional psychology. Key among his contributions have been his work in establishing the Association of Psychology Internship Centers, organizing the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology, and establishing a university-based school of professional psychology as a viable alternative to the graduate education models based in traditional departments of psychology. Fox is, perhaps, most noted for the various educational initiatives for which he has been responsible here at the American Psychological Association (APA). While he was recording secretary and member of the Board of Directors of APA, he was the key, central figure in the creation of the Education Directorate. This new directorate is now firmly established and will shape APA's actions regarding education and training for many years to come. For his commitment and dedication to the field of education in psychology, we honor Ronald E. Fox. He is this year's recipient of the award for Distinguished Education and Training Contributions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Florence L. Denmark.

This article recognizes Florence L. Denmark for her courageous, innovative, and methodologically rigorous scholarship on the psychology of women; her tireless advocacy on behalf of ethnic minorities, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and gay men and lesbians; and her extensive writing on the pedagogical issues involved in integrating new scholarship on gender, race and ethnicity, and feminist and multicultural perspectives into psychology courses. When Denmark conducted her pioneering research in the 1950s and 1960s on sex differences in leadership and authoritarian behavior and on discrimination against women in higher education, these topics were not fashionable. Practically single-handedly she brought recognition and respect to women's concerns in psychology by tackling the toughest conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the interdisciplinary hybrid that is the psychology of women (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gerald P. Koocher.

Gerald P. Koocher is nationally recognized for his public service activities in the areas of children's legal rights, services to families when a child member has a life-threatening illness, and the education and protection of consumers of mental health services. He has served on the Massachusetts Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Seclusion, Restraint, and Deaths in State Supported Facilities and the National Childhood Cancer Advisory Committee of the American Cancer Association. Other recognitions include the Nicholas Hobbs Award for Distinguished Contributions to Children's Services. Our profession is indebted to this energetic and generous psychologist for his tireless efforts to advocate for consumers of psychological services, especially those who are too young or too vulnerable to effectively protect themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

J. Wilbert Edgerton.

J. Wilbert Edgerton's career has been devoted to the development of rural mental health services and the enhancement of mental health services in the public sector. His extensive studies on mobilizing citizen advocates and developing community programs have greatly influenced the community mental health movement in this country. His advocacy for the profession led to the passage of licensure for psychologists in North Carolina. He is a tireless volunteer advocate and is widely known for his development of residential living arrangements for the mentally ill. An articulate man of high integrity, he has used his skills to do something concrete and practical about human problems and has devoted his life to making a difference in the lives of those affected by mental illness (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Phillip L. Ackerman.

Phillip L. Ackerman is cited for outstanding research on individual differences in complex skill acquisition. His experiments with air traffic control and related learning and transfer tasks represent a unique marriage of cognitive theory, psychometrics, and sophisticated data analysis to substantially improve our understanding of real-world complex performance. He has provided an explicit information-processing theory on the phases of skill acquisition in relation to general and special abilities. In addition to the citation, and biography is presented for Ackerman, along with a selected bibliography of his works. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gail E. Wyatt.

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. One of the two winners of this award is Gail E. Wyatt. Her research significantly advanced our understanding of the effects of abortion, childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual practices among women, particularly African-American women, and establishing research methods and tools to create culturally appropriate measures of these critical issues. Her work addressing sexual behavior and responses to victimization among African-American women has contributed significantly to the breakdown of stereotypes that previously limited the responses of Congress and the courts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished contribution to education in psychology: Ellen P. Reese.

The Distinguished Teaching in Psychology award, which includes a check for $1,000, is given to the recipient for his or her contributions to the teaching of psychology. The following guidelines are used to determine the recipient: (a) demonstrated influence as a teacher of students who become outstanding psychologists, (b) development of effective teaching methods and/or teaching materials, (c) engagement in significant research on teaching, (d) development of innovative curricula and courses, (e) outstanding performance as a classroom teacher, (f) being an especially effective trainer of teachers of psychology, and (g) being responsible for administrative facilitation of outstanding teaching. This article provides a citation and a biography for Ellen P. Reese for her distinguished contribution to education in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2004 Award Winners.

Presents the 2004 APA Awards. Awards are given in the following categories: Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology, Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training, Distinguised Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training, Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award, Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research, Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector, Distinguished Professional Contributions to Practice in the Public Sector, APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology, Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, and the International Humanitarian Award. Included are lists of members of the various APA committees who selected the award recipients, lists of previous awardees, and award citations, biographies, selected bibliographies and award addresses for the 2004 award winners. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Niko Tinbergen.

Niko Tinbergen is recognized for his achievements in psychology. This article provides a citation explaining his accomplishments, a biography and a selected bibliography. The citation is as follows: "For pioneering research on the behavior of animals, with profound implications for understanding the roots of human behavior and its development. His studies of social behavior led to fundamental insights concerning the evolutionary relationships between behavior and the ecology of animals. The orderly regularities discovered in the complex behavior of animals as occurring in natural environments, rather than the laboratory, led to the launching of the new discipline of ethology, for which, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1973." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2003 Award Winners: Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training.

Presents the 2003 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training. This award is given by the APA Board of Educational Affairs in recognition 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. A listing of the members of the APA committee who selected the recipients for this year and a list of the previous recipients of this award from 1987 through 2003 are provided. The award citation, biography, and selected bibliography for each of the award recipients for 2003 are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

2003 Award Winners: Edwin B. Newman Award.

Presents the 2003 Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award. A list of the members of the 2003 Edwin B. Newman Award Committee who selected the recipient for this year and a list of the previous recipients of this award from 1979 through 2003 are provided. The award recipient for 2003 is Rose Mary Webb. The award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography of Ms. Webb's research are included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John C. Colletti.

John C. Colletti has used his empathy and leadership skills to develop programs and interventions focused on serving populations who are generally overlooked and consequently underserved. He has worked with men's issues in older people and serves as a leading advocate of group therapy with older adults. As an intern at Howard University Hospital, he recognized the psychological needs of minorities and educated high school students in Washington, DC, about the medical risks and psychological issues confronting African Americans with end stage organ disease. His strong affiliation with the American Psychological Association (APA) and his research have reflected his commitment to disenfranchised populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Herbert Freudenberger.

Presents a citation for Herbert Freudenberger, whose professional career has been devoted to innovation in the development of psychological interventions to alleviate human suffering. Throughout his career he has instilled the principles of trust, respect, and human dignity into the psychotherapeutic process. His seminal work in identifying and exploring the emotional burnout experienced by caregivers in human service professions has brought profound changes in the way a new generation of students is being trained. A biography is provided for Freudenberger, along with a selected bibliography of his works. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David Shakow: Distinguished Professional Contribution Award.

Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1976 Distinguished Professional Contribution Award by David Shakow. The award citation reads: "In a career that spans almost five decades, his activities reflect his abiding concern with psychology's historical antecedents, his leadership in creating a training model for clinical psychology that would retain the unique quality that characterizes a psychologist, and his research contributions in the psychological study of schizophrenia. David Shakow by his imagination, by his influence on his many students--graduate and postdoctoral--as teacher and mentor, by his dedication to important scientific studies, by his advocacy of the coordinate role of researcher and practitioner for the clinical psychologist, and by his broad knowledge and commitment to humanistic values has indeed made a distinguished contribution to professional psychology." A biography and a listing of the recipient's scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David Merrill Clayson (1934-2001): Obituary.

Obituary for David Merrill Clayson (1934-2001). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)