Teaching Incentive Program Awards 2008-2009 recipient: Valerie Sims

Teaching Incentive Program Awards 2008-2009 recipient: Stacey Tantleff- Dunn

Teaching Incentive Program Awards 2008-2009 recipient: Charles Negy

Teaching Incentive Program Awards 2008-2009 recipient: Steven Berman

Teaching Incentive Program Awards 2008-2009 recipient: Janan Al-Awar Smither

Research Incentive Award (RIA) 2008-2009 recipient: Mustapha Mouloua

Founders' Day Honors Convocation 2009

The Pegasus Professors of 2009-2010: Peter Hancock.

Pam Thomas was one of two University faculty members selected as Large Class Faculty Fellows by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.  Pam was selected along with Alisha Jonowsky from Psychology.  They will provide support for those who teach large classes (defined as >100 students) through workshops, consultations, and by facilitating a teaching circle. Teaching Circles meet bi-monthly in the Faculty Center.  Meetings include the sharing of ideas and conducting discussions of the literature on how to be successful with large class instruction.

SCHOLARSHIP: Congratulations to Ms. Sallie Weaver, recipient of the I/ITSEC Post-Graduate Scholarship.  Ms. Weaver is a Doctoral Candidate, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, at the University of Central Florida  See her photos and details about the scholarships at http://www.iitsec.org/scholarships.cfm. Be sure to alert your Alma matters of this great opportunity.  The application window for next year will be December 2009 through February 2010.

Sallie J. Weaver, M.S recently won the following national scholarships:
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference
Doctoral Scholarship (April, 2009). National Training and Simulation
Association (NTSA).

Leslie W. Joyce and Paul W. Thayer Graduate Fellowship in I-O Psychology (March, 2009). Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

Sallie Weaver (PhD) was a recent recipient of two national scholarships: In April, she was awarded the National Training and Simulation Association's (NTSA) Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference Doctoral Scholarship. In March, she was awarded the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology's Leslie W. Joyce and Paul W. Thayer Graduate Fellowship in I-O Psychology

Jessica Wildman, a third year doctoral student in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD, collaborated with Drs Steve Fiore and Eduardo Salas and won the best poster award at the 2009 Fourth Annual INGRoup Conference in Colorado. Her poster is entitled: Toward Measurement of Trust and Distrust: Separate Constructs or Ends of a Continuum

Sally Stader (Applied Experimental & Human Factors PhD student) was a co-winner of the Best Graduate Paper Award at the 2008 Florida Student Conference on Human Factors and Applied Psychology held at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her paper was titled “Ergonomic Evaluation of a General Aviation Maintenance Task: Covering an Aircraft Wing”.

Clinical Ph.D. students Diana Orem and Betsy Wack each won a cash prize for first and second place for poster presentations at the 2008 Florida Psychological Association research conference.

April 2008: Carol Thornson was selected as one of five winners for Best in Category for her presentation titled, "Perceived Instrumentality of an Intervention: How Important is Metacognitive Feedback" in the Social Sciences category at the 2008 Graduate Research Forum.