Faculty Accomplishments

David Barash	David Barash’s opinion article, titled “Who’s In Charge Inside Your Head?” was featured in the New York Times on October 6. You can read the article here:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/whos-in-charge-inside-your-head.html?_r=1&
Michael Beecher	Michael Beecher was selected for a four-year term on College Council starting fall quarter 2012. The council is advisory to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on matters such as tenure and promotion, administrative and curricular policy, and budget policies and procedures. It will be great to have Psychology represented on the Council. Thanks Mike for stepping into this important leadership position!
Ana Mari Cauce	In August, Ana Mari Cauce was made a member in the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Sapna Cheryan	Sapna Cheryan was awarded a Visiting Scholar position at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. She is spending the 2012-2013 academic year at the Foundation's headquarters, along with 18 other faculty who were selected to investigate topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Sapna will continue her research on diversity, with a focus on investigating stereotypes of immigrants. For more about the foundation:http://www.russellsage.org/
William George	William George and Kelly Davis received a Notice of Award which will fund their project on Women’s HIV Risk: Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Victimization History for another five years. The project continues a program of research investigating the roles of acute alcohol intoxication and sexual victimization history in STI/HIV-related sexual risk taking in women
John Gottman	John Gottman and the Gottman Relationship Institute were referenced in an article this week, by the Wall Street Journal - Smart Money, titled “10 Things Your Marriage Counselor Won’t Say.” You can read the article here:http://www.smartmoney.com/plan/health-care/10-things-your-marriage-counselor-wont-say-1345237916645/
Jeansok Kim	Jeansok Kim has just been named the president-elect of the Pavlovian Society for the year 2013-2014. You can learn more about the society here:http://campus.albion.edu/pavlovian/
Randy Kyes	Randy Kyes’ recent work on a field course for middle and high school students at the Quileute Tribal School, in La Push, WA, was mentioned in UW Primate Center webpage. The course was titled “College Prep-Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface.” You can read the article here:http://faculty.washington.edu/rkyes/news/Interviews/WaNPRC-Quileute-Tribal-School.pdf
Liliana Lengua	In October, Liliana Lengua was interviewed by UW Today for an article titled “Back to School Tips for Parents from UW Psychologists.” You can read that article here:http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/08/16/back-to-school-tips-for-parents-from-uw-psychologists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-school-tips-for-parents-from-uw-psychologists
Marsha Linehan	Marsha Linehan was awarded the prestigious 2012 American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Application of Psychology. Linehan developed Dialectic Behavior Therapy, a cognitive behavioral treatment originally created to treat suicidal patients and now the standard treatment for borderline personality disorder. The award was presented at the APA convention in Orlando, FL, on August 3rd. For more info about this award go tohttp://www.apa.org/apf/funding/gold-medal.aspx
Lois McDermott	The Alpha Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta on the University of Washington campus nominated Lois McDermott for Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity’s Ten Outstanding Faculty Members. Over 120 applications were received from chapters across the United States and Canada.
Joe Sisneros	In September, Joe Sisneros and Ashwin Bhandiwad took their recorders out to West Seattle, on Labor Day weekend, after there was some talk about a mystery hum being heard around parts of West Seattle at night. Joe Sisneros was interviewed by Associated Press about the possibility that the hum might be made by Midshipman fish. This interview spawned several news stories about the fish and the mystery sound. In the end it was determined that the fish were not the source of the hum. You can read some of the articles here:http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019096064_apwawestseattlehum1stldwritethru.html,http://www.king5.com/news/local/Fish-still-candidate-in-West-Seattle-hum-168989126.html,http://www.king5.com/home/Nothing-fishy-about-West-Seattles-now-famous-hum-169399366.html
Ron Smith & Frank Smoll	On October 1, the coaching-behavior research of Ron Smith and Frank Smoll was featured in the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring. You can read the article here:http://t.co/72MYpLGk
Frank Smoll	On July 10, Frank Smoll was interviewed for an Associated Press article titled “Coaching your Own Kid Brings Pressures, Rewards,” by Lisa Flam. You can read the article here:http://www.ctpost.com/living/article/Coaching-your-own-kid-brings-pressures-rewards-3696646.php During the Olympics, Frank Smoll was interviewed for an MSNBC story titled "Olympic Sprinter Breaks Leg, Keeps Running." Here is that article:http://todayhealth.today.com/_news/2012/08/10/13220689-howd-he-do-that-olympic-sprinter-breaks-leg-keeps-running?lite?ocid=twitterYou can also listen to the MP3here In September, Frank Smoll was interviewed for a Yakima Herald article on early talent identification in youth sports. You can read the article here:http://tinyurl.com/Early-Talent-ID
Wendy Stone	In October, Wendy Stone was quoted in the APA Monitor (page 59) in an article titled Catching Autism Earlier. You can view this article here:http://www.apamonitor-digital.org/apamonitor/201210#pg1