Personalities
to the PHS
Commissioned
Corps. Goodie
is an associate
professor in
the department
of family
medicine at
Uniformed
Services
University’s
F. Edward Hebert School of
Medicine and interim director
of clinical training in the
university’s medical and clinical
psychology department.
n Kansas University has
named psychology professor
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot,
PhD, as director of its Center
for Teaching Excellence, a
university-wide resource
center that supports faculty.
Greenhoot conducts research
on autobiographical memory as
well as ways instructors can use
cognitive and developmental
science to inform their teaching
and improve and assess student
learning.
n Georgia State University has
named John Lutzker, PhD, a
Distinguished
University
Professor, the
university’s
highest award.
Lutzker,
who directs
the Center
for Healthy
Development
at the Georgia
State University School of Public
Health and is a leading expert in
child neglect and maltreatment
prevention, is honored for his
sustained excellence in research,
teaching and service.
n Social psychologist Deborah
Prentice, PhD, is the new dean
of faculty at
Princeton
University. She
has chaired
the university’s
psychology
department
since 2002. In
her research,
Prentice
studies how
social norms can affect behavior
change.
n Northern Arizona University
named Andrew S. Walters,
PhD, MPH, its 2014 President’s
Distinguished Teaching Fellow,
the institution’s highest
teaching award, for his impact
on undergraduate learning.
Walters is a professor in the
department of
psychological
sciences who
studies gender
performance,
sexuality and
sexual health
in under-
represented
and ethnic
minority
populations. The three-year
appointment allows him to serve
on the board of the Northern
Arizona University Teaching
Academy. n
Psychologists elected to National Academy of Sciences
Three psychologists are among the 2014 class of new members of
the National Academy of Sciences. They are:
• Marcia K. Johnson, PhD, Yale University.
• Helen J. Neville, PhD, University of Oregon (elected as foreign
associate).
• David R. Williams, PhD, University of Rochester.
Election to the National Academy is considered one of the highest
honors in the United States for scientists who pursue original
research. A total of 105 scientists were elected as new members (or
foreign associates) this year.
Lutzker
Walters
Prentice
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