Department News

John Trueswell has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dianne Chambless was recognized with the Aaron T. Beck Award for Sustained and Enduring Contributions to Cognitive Therapy at the meeting of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, November 2010.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA invites applications for a faculty position in child or adult clinical psychology or in developmental psychopathology, to begin July 2011. Rank is open. Applicants must have an active, high quality research program with potential for extramural funding and be prepared to contribute to the undergraduate and doctoral teaching missions of the department, including the APA-accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology. We seek candidates whose research area complements that of current faculty members.

The Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a Lecturer position that will be for either one year (full-time) or one semester (part-time).  The fall semester begins September 1, 2010 and the Spring semester will begin January 1, 2011.  The Lecturer's primary duty will be to teach one or more sections of our large  semester lecture course, Psychology 1, which introduces undergraduates to all areas of Psychology.   We seek candidates with a Ph.D.

Martha Farah elected a 2010 Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

See http://www.amacad.org/news/new2010.aspx for further details.

Psychology Graduate Group Member Edna Foa was listed by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 who affect our world.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984…

Nicole Rust named 2010 Sloan Fellow.  For details, see http://www.sloan.org/pressroom/item/458/2010-sloan-research-fellowships.

Mike Kahana Receives 2010 Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences.  Follow link for details.

Jon Baron elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  See http://www.sepsych.org/ for details.