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Members of the psychology department were award and recognized in a variety of ways this past year.
Eric Amsel: He was elected as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and as the Weber State University Due Process Officer. He serves as Vice President of the Jean Piaget Society and as Associate Editor of New Ideas in Psychology. He gave invited talks at WSU General Education Retreat, the DaVinci Academy Lecture Series, the Davis County Counselor Association, and the Department of Psychology Seminar. He was a reviewer for RMPA, JPS, SRCD, The British Journal of Psychology, Child Development, and Cognition & Instruction.
Aaron Ashley: He was invited to serve as a consultant to the Democracy Project on campus and serves on the Linguistics minor steering committee. He also was invited to review manuscripts for two publishers (Pearson Education and Allyn & Bacon).
Todd Baird: He was invited to serve as a supervisor to two candidates for clinical licensure.
Lauren Fowler: She serves on the board of the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR), the National Council of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), the Utah Council of Undergraduate Research (UCUR), and the Hemingway Foundation. She was elected President of Phi Kappa Phi (Chapter 119) and serves on the Neuroscience Initiative Planning Committee. She was a reviewer for the journal Brain and Cognition and for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Richard Grow: He was invited to serve as a consultant and service provider to Division of Rehabilitation Services, Social Security Disability Determination Unit, and VA.
Azenett Garza: She was invited to serve as a reviewer for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Joseph Horvat: He was elected as the first advisor to the newly formed Phi Alpha Omega, the American Psychological Association’s Division 45 (Society of the Scientific Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) minority students’ honors society He was also invited to serve as a reviewer and as a consultant for the American Psychologist and reviewed submission for RMPA and APA conferences.
Theresa Kay: She continues her service as chair of the WSU Institutional Review Board (IRB). She served as a reviewer for submissions to RMPA and the Journal in Support of the Null Hypothesis. She gave two invited talks (with Maria Parrilla De Kokal and Melinda Russell-Stamp) to the parents of students at Washington High School about improving relationships with their children.
Maria Parrilla de Kokal: She was invited to give the 5th annual Last Lecture at Weber State University. She gave invited talks to audiences in the WSU division of Student Services and Academic Affairs, St. Thomas Catholic Church, and Washington High School (with Russell-Stamp and Kay).
Melinda Russell-Stamp: She was invited to give a series of talks to the Weber State University Academy of Leadership, Weber State University, Davis Campus and to Washington High School (with Kay and Parrilla de Kokal).
Leigh Shaw: Served as an invited reviewer for journals (Child Development and Sex Roles and Developmental Science) and publishers (Pearson and Worth) and for conferences (JPS and SRCD). She was invited to serve as local arrangements chair of the Jean Piaget Society and sits on the executive committee. She was invited to serve as a session chair for the JPS conference.
Mathew Schmolesky: He was elected President of the Intermountain Chapter of the International Society for Neuroscience. He is also the founder and director of the Neuroscience Initiative, which organized a series of speakers on campus this year and has a program of courses formally approved as a minor.
