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P s y c h L i n k Volume 7, Issue 2 The Newsletter of the Institute of Psychology Fall 2004 Contents From the Director - Dr. M. Ellen Mitchell From the Director 1 staff. Along with Jennifer made in undergraduate and Board Chairman 2 Walden, Sean helps to ensure graduate school are the smooth running of multiple powerful, even when we do Dr. Raju CD 2 facets of our operation. As not have frequent contact. Director of well, Anne Rose Johnson came However, this would Development 3 on board this month as our new necessitate an effort on the full time development person. A part of all of you to drop us Undergraduate Certified Fundraising Executive, a note so we can make you a Admissions 4 Anne has a wealth of experi- part of our news. Please Center for Research ence and energy to bring to also tell us about others & Service 5 The university in the fall is a sight to bear on the task of ensuring with whom you may be in I/O News 6 behold: new students, familiar faces, philanthropic support for touch ~ even second hand New Faculty 7 new faculty, old friends, crisp air psychology. We are very news can be good news. Rehab News 8 intermingled with boiling days, the pleased to welcome each and Sad news is also important hum of activity. This fall has been Clinical News 9 every one of them and hope news for us to receive. I particularly busy. We are pleased to you will make the effort to say received word that Anne 10 Alumni Spotlight welcome two new faculty to our hello and join in our welcome. Rochelle Cohn passed away Alumni News 11 ranks. Dr. Annette Towler, Associate recently. If anyone has more Professor in I/O comes to us from the The productivity of the information to share about University of Colorado Denver. You psychology faculty continues Anne for our next issue, PsychLink: will find more about her later in the to be impressive - Tammy Sher please contact the Institute. newsletter under the I/O notes. Dr. Editorial Director: received two more grants, I also heard through Sandy M. Ellen Mitchell, Ph.D. Ruthanna Gordon, a cognitive Annette Towler brought a grant Marcus that Harvey Mandel psychologist who just completed a with her from the Army died suddenly this year. We Editor: fellowship at Amherst, also joined us Research Institute, Dave send our deepest regrets to Sean Layman this fall. Specializing in memory and Peterson is now leading on the his family and invite you to source monitoring she brings a fresh rehabilitation engineering read more about him inside Contributors: perspective and a new research training grant, to name a few. I this volume. Harvey was an Olivia Anderson, Bryan focus. Her interests include the will not laundry list all the extraordinary mentor and Dunn, Anne Johnson, effect of emotion on judging the Jack Spani. current grants but suffice it to professional. We extend our origin of information, and the say, we have more faculty with sympathy also to Sandy, PsychLink is published by process of source credibility funding than ever before. who lost this very dear the Institute of Psychol- judgment. For example, when you Faculty success in funding and friend and colleague. Sandy ogy use the web to obtain information publication domains is particu- and Harvey shared many about something and have to select Please send correspon- larly important for the status wonderful years and dence to: from among a few hundred sites that and stability of the educational authorship of two books. Google produced, you have to make programs and it increases our PsychLink credibility judgments. Her work capacity to provide student Lets hope for a reasonable Institute of Psychology centers on identifying the parameters 3101 S. Dearborn support. I have had several winter - please be in touch. Room 252 and processes of these assessments. alumni comment that they You are the ones who make Chicago, IL 60616-3793 Ruthanna will have a key role in our would be interested to hear up the alumni network and (312) 567-3500 undergraduate program. Sean more from and about their we need your help to keep it [email protected] Layman joined our incredible office compadres. Relationships vibrant. Update from Bryan Dunn - Chairman of the Board are of the highest caliber and are offered in the field of behavioral genetics. He was full merit scholarships. As one of our a pioneer in the use of polygenic and greatest resources, I challenge all alumni threshold models of inheritance of to help promote the benefits of IIT and psychopathology, models now widely the Institute of Psychology to interested accepted. His work set the standard for potential students to help us fill our the study of monozygotic and dizygotic ranks, be it the graduate or undergraduate twin studies in experimental methodology. programs. Dr. Gottesman has received many On the Graduate front, TIP, the publica- prestigious awards. The American tion of the Society of Industrial-Organiza- Psychological Association and the tional Psychologists, recently ranked the Society for Research in Psychopathology Institute of Psychology’s I/O Ph.D. are among those that have honored him. th Coincident with the rejuvenation of the program 6 nationally. The ranking was A full article on Dr. Gottesman’s achieve- university, IIT acquired its largest based on a survey of students participat- ments can be found later on in this issue. incoming first year class in recent years ing in programs across the country. This I would also like to thank Dr. Gottesman and welcomed 626 new students to is testimony of the excellence of our for the generous donation of his book, campus. Jack Spani, our psychology faculty. Our master’s level Rehabilitation Psychiatric Genetics & Genomics, and recruiter, has been diligent in his work to Counseling Program retained its #5 DVD collaboration, Schizophrenia bring forward the word of psychology at ranking in U.S. News and World Report, Treatment: Bridging Science to Clinical IIT and to increase the psychology also a reflection of superlative faculty Care. undergraduate enrollment. This is a slow productivity. process, as we all know, but we are I’m proud to say the Institute of Psychol- optimistic that he can attain the Institute’s I am pleased to announce the recognition ogy is advancing on all fronts. The share of this new undergraduate base. of one of our most distinguished alumni. undergraduate program is showing great Not one to be content with mere quantity The IIT Alumni Association awarded the promise for the future, the graduate of students, he has also been successful 2004 Professional Achievement Award to program continues to be nationally in targeting the incoming Camras schol- Dr. Irving Gottesman. Dr. Gottesman, recognized, and the alumni are drawing ars. You may recall that Camras students psychology graduate of 1953, is a pioneer praise from the academic community. Have You Seen It? Have you seen the great new CD-ROM chronicling the career of Distinguished Professor Nambury Raju? The 13-minute CD-ROM was created in honor of Nam’s work in I/O at IIT. The premiere showing was held earlier this year at the SIOP conference in Chicago. It includes vignettes from alumni, faculty and students as well as some great footage of Nam himself. The CD-ROM was produced to bring together the I/O family as we launch an endeavor to develop a faculty chair for the I/O program. Whether you reside in the Chicagoland area or another part of the country, we hope you take the opportunity to become reacquainted with the nationally ranked I/O program. Please contact Olivia Anderson at 312-567-6750 or [email protected] if you would like more information about the project or if you would like a copy of the CD-ROM. You won’t be disappointed you did! 2 Director of Development I come to IIT from the library world; for As I dig into end-of-year activities at the the past six years I was executive director Institute of Psychology, I encourage all of of the Library Community Foundation, you to watch for the annual appeal letter working with public library directors and that will be mailed in the coming weeks. trustees throughout Illinois to raise Please consider giving generously. The money in support of capital projects, efforts to meet the endowment goals for outreach programs and collection the two endowed faculty chairs will be development. The Library Community foremost in our fundraising efforts for the Foundation also managed the philan- New Year. And, as always, scholarship thropic assets of those libraries, and is in fund contributions and unrestricted gifts the process of transitioning those assets will be continually important in attracting to a donor-advised fund at the Chicago the best students and keeping them at the Community Trust. Institute of Psychology. My previous position was as administra- I am so encouraged by the wonderful past tor of foundation relations, events and support that is very evident here. This communications with the Columbus- will be an exciting opportunity for me to Cabrini Medical Foundation at Catholic get to know all of you and to help build a I am very pleased to join the Institute of Health Partners. The foundation office solid base for the important work of the Psychology as Director of Development, worked to secure support for outreach Institute. You are always welcome to stop and am looking forward to learning about programs at Columbus Hospital, St. by and chat, update me on a current the work that the faculty and students are Anthony Hospital and the Chicago project or request my “positive energy” doing here.