Colin DeYoung Wins Prestigious Award

Dear Psychology Colleagues,
I'm pleased to tell you that Professor Colin DeYoung has won a SAGE
Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social
Psychology, which will be given at the SPSP conference later this
month. Colin is a member of our Personality, Individual Differences,
and Behavior Genetics (PIB) program.
Let's all congratulate Colin on this splendid recognition of his
research accomplishments!

Wendy Johnson Receives Major APA Award

Hello Psychology Department,
The current issue of the American Psychologist announces the 2011 APA award recipients. We are pleased to report that Wendy Johnson, a 2005 graduate of the PIB area, received APA's Distinguished Early Career Award in Individual Differences. She joins several other Minnesotans who have received this award, including Dave Lubinski (in 1996), Niels Waller (in 1999), and Bob Krueger (in 2005). Wendy is currently a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, where she continues her path-breaking research on individual differences in cognitive ability and personality. Coincidentally, Wendy is visiting the department this week.
Please join in congratulating Wendy on her receipt of this major award!

Brian Connelly and Deniz Ones Win Best Paper Award

It was announced that the Society for Industrial and Organizational
Psychology (SIOP; Division 14 of the American Psychological Association)
will be awarding the inaugural "Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for
Personality and Work Performance" to the following journal article:
Connelly, B. S., & Ones, D. S. (2010). An other perspective on
personality: Meta-analytic integration of observers' accuracy and
predictive validity. /Psychological Bulletin//, 136/, 1092-1122.
Brian Connelly is a 2008 Ph.D. and Deniz Ones is a professor from our
Industrial and Organizational Psychology program.
SIOP awards the Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work
Performance in recognition of the best paper or chapter that
demonstrates innovation in applied personality research in the field of
industrial and organizational psychology during the past year (2010).
This annual award, honoring Joyce and Robert Hogan, is given to the
authors of a paper or chapter judged to have the highest potential to
further the understanding of personality as it relates to work performance.

Mark Snyder Wins Award from SPSP

Dear Psychology Colleagues,
I'm very pleased to tell you that Mark Snyder has been recognized by
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) for his many
and important service contributions to the Society.

Mark Snyder receives the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Dear Psychology Colleagues,
I am pleased to tell you that Mark Snyder has been chosen to receive
the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental
Social Psychology. Previous winners of this prestigious award include
many of the most accomplished scholars in social psychology:
(http://www.sesp.org/awards.htm)
Please join me in congratulating Mark for this splendid and well-deserved honor!
The award ceremony will be held on October 14th of this year at the
annual SESP meeting in DC.
It is interesting to note that Mark also received the dissertation
award from this Society; his dissertation was clearly an indicator of
great things to come.

Fang Fang And Boom Time for Neuroscience in China

Dear Colleagues,
One of our Psychology Ph.D.'s is playing a major role in the
blossoming of neuroscience and psychology in China. Fang Fang worked
with Kersten, He and Legge and others in our Cognitive and Biological
program, and is now a professor in the Psychology Department at Peking
University.
The present issue of Current Biology has a feature article on the
"Boom Time for Neuroscience in China"
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/relatedArticles?articlePii=S0960-9822(11)00646-4
including comments from Fang, and also a Q&A interview with Fang
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)00484-2
Enjoy!

Matt McGue Wins Dobzhansky Award

Dear Colleagues,
I recently learned that Matt McGue is the recipient of the Behavior
Genetic Association's (BGA's) senior award for outstanding research
accomplishment in the field of behavioral genetics, the Dobzhansky
Award. This is the BGA's highest honor. The prize was named for
Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the greatest geneticists of the 20th
century and the first President of the BGA. Matt received this award
last Thursday.
Please join me in congratulating Matt for this recognition of his
splendid contributions to research!
--Gordon