August 8, 2002
ETC Campus News and Notes
WAY TO GO, PROFS: Psychology professors Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll will be honored in October at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Tucson, Ariz. Smith has been invited to give the Coleman Griffith talk, which is regarded as the main feature of the conference that attracts sports psychologists from around the world. Smoll will be the recipient of the organization’s distinguished professional practice award. Smith and Smoll are the authors of a book, Way to Go, Coach, designed to help amateur sports coaches work with kids.
DOUBLE HONORS: Ana Mari Cauce, psychology and American ethnic studies professor and director of the University honors program, will be doubly honored by the American Psychological Association at its annual meeting in Chicago in mid-August. She will be receiving the distinguished contribution award in community psychology and the Dalmas Taylor distinguished contribution award. The latter is for her work for the advancement of education and research on ethnicity, culture and context.
KUDOS: Divergent Paths, co-authored by sociology and statistics professors Martina Morris and Mark Handcock and two colleagues from New York University, has won the Lester Prize for the outstanding book in labor economics and industrial relations. The award is given by Princeton University… History Professor Emeritus Richard Kirkendall received the Distinguished Service Award from the Organization of American Historians, an organization he served as executive secretary from 1973 to 1981.
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