Foundation AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL
only training program in professional
psychology at the University of
Colombo.
The Frances M. Culbertson Travel
Grant provides up to $1,500 biennially
to early career women psychologists who
want to attend professional conferences.
The grant is funded through a donation
from Frances M. Culbertson, PhD. The
application deadline for the 2014 award
is Feb. 15, 2013. For more information
on the grant, visit www.apa.org/apf/
funding/ culbertson.aspx.
Join APF in Orlando
The American Psychological Foundation
will host a series of distinguished
presentations and speakers during APA’s
2012 Annual Convention in Orlando,
Fla., Aug. 2–5. They include:
• “Bullying Prevention Policy and
Practice: Where Have We Come and
Where Are We Headed?” the William
Bevan Lecture on Psychology and
Public Policy by Susan Limber, PhD, of
Clemson University. Limber directed
the first wide-scale implementation
and evaluation of the Olweus Bullying
Prevention Program in the United States.
She is co-author of the Blueprint for the
Bullying Prevention Program. Aug. 3,
noon–12: 50 p.m.
• “American Psychological
Foundation Grants and Scholarships,”
an information session with APF
Program Officer Parie Kadir. Attendees
will learn about the foundation’s more
than 40 funding opportunities. Aug. 3,
1–1: 50 p.m.
• “Mathematically Talented Youth
at Age 50: Early Results from a 40-Year
Follow-Up Study of Mathematically
Precocious Youth Participants,” the
Esther Katz Rosen Lecture on Gifted
Children and Adolescents by the study’s
In 2006, APF gave Laura E. Knouse, PhD, a
$3,000 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo
Graduate Scholarship to support her graduate
research exploring ways to improve learning
among college students with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder.
Now an assistant professor of psychology
at the University of Richmond, Knouse says the
grant played a key role in launching her academic career.
“APF’s support allowed me to pursue a truly independent
research project with a strong connection to my values as a
clinical scientist,” she says. “The scholarship and the work that
it supported helped me secure my current position, where I
have the opportunity and the responsibility of training students
at the beginning of their possible journeys to becoming clinical
researchers.”
The Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Graduate Scholarship
is one of several graduate scholarships APF offers. For more
information on APF’s graduate funding opportunities, visit www.
apa.org/apf/funding/cogdop.aspx.
Knouse
co-director, David Lubinski, PhD, of
Vanderbilt University. The 50-year
longitudinal study included more than
5,000 intellectually talented participants.
Aug. 3, 3–3: 50 p.m.
• “The Psychology of Possibility,”
the Arthur W. Staats Lecture on Unifying
Psychology by
Ellen J. Langer,
PhD, of Harvard
University. Langer
will share her
results from a
series of studies
that have shown
mindsets and our language can lead
to improved vision, weight loss and
longevity. Aug. 3, 2–2: 50 p.m.
• The 2012 Spielberger EMPathy
Symposium will feature three talks:
“Are We the Only Empathic Animal?”
by Frans B.M. de Waal, PhD, of Emory
University;
“Emotion,
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