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"" 		A Tradition of Excellence

The University of Wisconsin - Psychology Department's tradition of excellence began with our founder, Joseph Jastrow.

Over the past 50 years six of our faculty have been awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the highest individual honor in the field. These winners were or are Wisconsin faculty:
    1956 Carl Rogers
    1960 Harry Harlow
    1990 Frances Graham
    1993 Peter Lang
    1996 Robert Goy
    2000 Richard Davidson

And here's a sampling of other recent accomplishments:


November 2005
Wisconsin Top-5 by departmental impact factor
ISI has released its ranking by average citations per paper, of the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities that published at least 300 papers in Thomson Scientific-indexed psychology journals between 2000 and 2004. In it, the UW-Madison ranks #5 in citations per paper, and #2 in overall number of papers. For more information, visit ISI Essential Science Indicators.

December 2005
Wisconsin Top-5 among Clinical Psychology PhD programs
In a recent peer-reviewed study* "based on quantifiable measures of faculty publications and citations," UW-Madison ranked #1 in citation ranking, and #9 in number of publications ranking, for a composite ranking of #3. The authors characterize this study as "the first study to rank clinical psychology Ph.D. programs on objective and systematic data of individual faculty" and note that because "the number of publications and citations are typically used to evaluate faculty for promotion and tenure, " these rankings have "a level of validity in assessing prominence that is not present in survey data" that is typically used in rankings that are published in the popular press.

*Matson et al. (2005). Clinical psychology Ph.D. program rankings: evaluating eminence on faculty publications and citations. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 26, 503-513.

June 2005
Putsch at APS!
As a result of recent elections, two UW-Madison psychologists have risen to leadership positions at the American Psychological Society: Morton Gernsbacher has been elected President-Elect and Patricia Devine has been elected to the Board of Directors. Two of the ten governance positions at APS are now held by Wisconsin faculty.

December 2004
UW Psychology Department rated most innovative in graduate education!
The UW Psychology Department has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2004 Award for Innovation in Graduate Education in Psychology sponsored by the American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) in cooperation with the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP). The department's award citation is for "the development by your department of a program designed to foster excellence in research, especially cross-disciplinary, integrative research among graduate students." UW Psychology will receive an award of $2,500. We are co-sharing the award with a consortium of Canadian universities, so this makes our program the most innovative in the United States! Click here for the full text of the letter of nomination which describes all of our innovations.

October 2004
Wisconsin Retains #1 Ranking in R&D Expenditures
The National Science Foundation has released its report on "Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001", the most recent year for which such data are available, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has retained it's top ranking among departments of psychology, for both for federally financed and total expenditures. At $16.7 million for federal and $22.8 million total, Wisconsin accounted for 4% of all psychology R&D expenditures in the United States.

January 2003 APS Observer Profiles UW-Madison
» View article: "Federal Support for Psych Research Climbing" PDF
» View article: "A Closer Look at the Trend" PDF

October 31, 2000
Department receives Presidential Citation from APA
American Psychological Association presents this Presidential Citation to Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

In recognition of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for its exemplary support of psychological science and the American Psychological Association for more than a century. Beginning with the establishment of Joseph Jastrow's laboratory in 1888, Wisconsin has attracted some of the country's most outstanding psychological scientists. These scholars and their students have produced tens of thousands of articles over a wide range of topics in psychology, making a rich contribution to the development of the field. Wisconsin faculty members Joseph Jastrow, Harry Harlow, and Frank Farley have honored the Association by serving as APA President , and several have received APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards. Currently four faculty members edit APA journals, and several others serve as leaders in the APA governance system, including the Publications and Communications Board and the Board of Scientific Affairs. APA greatly appreciates the outstanding individual contributions of these distinguished scientists and the department's legacy of extraordinary service to the discipline.

Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, JD, MPH
APA President
October 2000

May 2000
Six Major Psychological Journals are currently edited by UW Psychology Faculty. Story
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