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Fall 2000
The Center for Tobacco Research at UW-Madison received a five year, $9.9 million
dollar federal grant to combat the vexing problem of why so many smokers who try
to quit ultimately light up again. Professor Timothy Baker is one of two
principal investigators on this grant, the largest in the Center's history. Also
included in this grant is one of three pilot treatment programs led by Professor
Richard Davidson. This program will monitor the impact of tobacco withdrawal on
various areas of the brain.
Professor Richard Davidson is the recipient of the American Psychological
Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. This is the
highest honor in psychology and usually goes to very senior people for lifetime,
career contributions. He received the award at the APA meeting this past August
in Washington, D.C.
Assistant Professor Eddie Harmon-Jones was awarded a three-year grant from the
National Science Foundation to study his action-based model of cognitive
dissonance.
Professor Trish Devine, Assistant Professor Eddie Harmon-Jones and Research
Assistant David Amodio were awarded a one-year grant from the Fetzer Institute to
examine the mechanisms underlying self-report measures, with an emphasis on their
cognitive, emotional, motivational, and biological substrates.
Associate Professor Martha Alibali, along with Associate Professor
Julia Evans,
was awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation for Do gestures reveal hidden
knowledge in children with poor expressive language skills?
Professor Charles Snowdon was awarded a grant from the French National Center for
Scientific Research on "Le transfert inter-modal vision-audition: une condition
nécessaire pour l0 emergence du langage?" Additionally he received a subcontract
on an NIMH grant, "Functional imaging of sexual motivation in nonhuman primates."
He was a speaker at A Center of Excellence Symposium on the Phylogeny of
Cognition and Language at Inuyama Japan and at a conference "Communication: The
Animal in the Context of Its Environment" at the University of California, Davis.
He will also be a speaker at a Symposium on "Social Development: From Genes to
Behavior" at Bowling Green State University. Professor Snowdon taught 20 hours
in Spanish in a course on Communication and Reproduction at the University of
Cordoba in Argentina, served as outside examiner on a Ph.D. dissertation at the
University of Rennes in France, and finished his term, as editor of Journal of
Comparative Psychology and then started a new term as Associate Editor of
Behaviour.
Professor Morton Gernsbacher was awarded a three-quarter million dollar grant
from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, to study the
neuroanatomy of language comprehension. She was also awarded a $100,000 grant
from the National Alliance for Autism Research to identify a possible subtype of
autistic spectrum disorder. She was elected to the Board of Scientific Affairs
of American Psychological Association (APA), selected as a distinguished
scientist lecturer for the American Psychological Association, chosen to serve on
the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation Advisory Board, and elected president of
Division 3 of the APA.
Professor and Chair Janet Hyde is President of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Sexuality for 2000.
Professor Craig Berridge received a 5-year, 1.25 million dollar grant from the
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study the neural mechanisms of
amphetamine-induced arousal. Professor Berridge believes this research will
further our understanding of the basic brain mechanisms regulating sleep and
waking as well as further our understanding of the biological bases of drug abuse
and attention deficit disorder.
Professor Patricia Devine has been selected by Society of Personality and Social
Psychology to participate in the European Association of Social Psychology Summer
School. She was elected a Fellow for both the Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association
(APA) Psychology Summer School and the Society for the Personality and Stoical
Psychology Social Issues, Division 8 of the APA. She was also appointed Editor
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social
Cognition. Professor Devine was elected to the Executive Committee of Society of
Personality and Social Psychology. She also was awarded a Hilldale
Undergraduate/Faculty Fellowship Award (Students: Lynette Adams, R. Erin Goldman
and Amy Piel).
Professor James Dannemiller has been asked to serve on the National Science
Foundation Grant Review Panel for Human Cognition and Perception. He will serve
a three year term starting immediately.
Professor Judy Harackiewicz was named the outstanding teacher in the Department
for the 1999-2000 academic year. The winner of the annual award, which includes
a cash prize, is chosen from among all faculty in the Department each spring.
Professor Harackiewicz consistently receives high ratings from her students. She
typically teaches a large lecture course, Introduction to Social Psychology,
graduate seminars on social psychology, and several limited-enrollment
undergraduate courses in the same area. She is especially known for the
excellent opportunities she provides for undergraduates in her lab.
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