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Dear Colleagues,

Congratulations to Wilma Koutstaal, whose book The Agile Mind was co-awarded the 2012 APA William James Book Award. The award, sponsored by APA Division I (General Psychology) was announced at the August meeting of the American Psychological Association. For more information on the award and for a list of past recipients, please see:

www.apa.org/about/awards/div-1-book.aspx

The award committee was expansive in their praise of the book, which offers an innovative theory regarding the workings of the human mind. The committee commented that Wilma did a particularly impressive job integrating material from several areas of psychology, suggesting many fruitful approaches through which to explore associations among cognition, emotion, and the environment.

We're very pleased to know about this wonderful recognition of Wilma's work!

Regards,
Monica

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We are pleased to welcome our "new" Psychology Advisor, Becky Mooney, who is rejoining the Department of Psychology. After a prior seven year stint in Psychology Undergraduate Advising, Becky has spent the past two years as Coordinator of Advising in the Sociology department. Missing the time she was able to dedicate to meeting with and advising students, she decided to return to her former, more student-focused, position. We are excited to have her positivity and enthusiasm for student work back in our unit! Becky received her Psychology B.A. from this department in 1999 and her Master of Liberal Studies degree from CCE in 2005. Please stop in to N106 Elliott Hall beginning Monday, August 20th to welcome Becky back.

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Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Professor Emeritus Auke Tellegen. Auke won the Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology award from Section IX of Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. The award was presented last week at the annual meeting of the APA.

Along with the award, the honoree is invited to present a talk on a topic of his/her choosing. Auke's talk was entitled "Feeling, Thinking, Acting: Real Dimensions of Personality and Psychopathology, or a Persistent Tradition, or Both?". I am told that the talk proved to be provocative, entertaining and inspiring.

Congratulations, Auke, on this prestigious award!

Regards,
Monica

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Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating faculty member, Deniz Ones and her student, Brenton Wiernik. Brenton was recently honored as the first winner of APA division 34's undergraduate student research award.
Brenton's paper was entitled,"Age differences in employee green behaviors and their generalizability across 11 countries." The choice of Brenton's paper as the best was unanimous among the judges.

Please send your personal congratulations to Brenton (wiern001@umn.edu) and to Deniz (onesx001@umn.edu).

Regards,
Monica

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Congratulations to Don Brunquell!

Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to inform you that Don Brunquell, adjunct faculty member at the Institute of Child Development and in the CSPR program in the Department of Psychology, has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the the fourth annual APA Ethics Committee Award for Outstanding Contributions to Ethics Education. Don was presented with a plaque during the Ethics Committee's invitational breakfast on Friday August 3rd at the annual APA Convention.

We congratulate Don on this outstanding honor. We are fortunate to include him as a member of our instructional team!

Best regards,
Monica Luciana
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology
and
Megan Gunnar
Director, Institute of Child Development
Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor

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Adjunct Faculty in the News

Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to call your attention a several recent accomplishments by adjunct faculty member Bill Robiner. On July 23, 2012, Bill received the 2012 Alfred M. Wellner, PhD, Distinguished Career Award from the National Register of Health Service Providers.
For more information on this honor, please see:

Congratulations to Bill on this achievement!

Best,
Monica
Professor and Chair

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