Monitor - September 2014

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