Dr. Ellen Edmonds, assistant professor; Dr. Betty Hubbard, professor; and Dr. Jacquie Rainey, professor and associate dean are currently serving on two of the three division boards as well as the Board of Commissioners for the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing. All faculty members in the Department of Health Sciences. Hubbard and Rainey serve on the Division Board for Certification (DBCHES). This board develops and administers the national certification examination. As the vice-coordinator of DBCHES, Rainey also serves on the Board of Commissioners, the governing body of NCHEC. Edmonds is a member of the Division Board for Professional Preparation (DBPP), which creates standards for professional preparation. Directors and commissioners are elected volunteers and are active credential holders.

Dr. R. Kevin Rowell, an associate professor, conducted a workshop last month at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India on how to prepare psychologists, counsellors and mental health practitioners to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of people affected by disasters.

The workshop, “’Providing Crisis Mental Health in Disasters,” focused on disasters and their impact, psychological crisis, standard immediate interventions, needs of adults, children and families, recovery interventions, special disaster isssues, and self care during and after the disaster.

Rowell is a certified trainer with the American Red Cross and a member of Disaster Response Network Committee of American Psychological Association.

The workshop was organized by Jamia’s Counseling and Guidance Centre in collaboration with Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists.

Dr. Letha Mosely, professor of occupational therapy, met with U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln in Washington in June. They met to discuss Lincoln’s efforts to ensure seniors have access to rehabilitation therapy.

Graduating senior Ariel Adams recently completed her research project analyzing the test-retest reliability of the Family Paradigm Assessment Scale (F-PAS). Ariel presented her results to faculty and students. The F-PAS looks at the way families view the world and use their resources. This project was funded by a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grant through the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. Adams has been awarded a stipend and full tuition for the first 3 years of her study for a clinical doctorate in audiology at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. This money is part of a grant awarded to Gallaudet from the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs to support the preparation of audiologists with a pediatric/educational audiology emphasis (PEAE) to work with culturally and linguistically diverse pediatric (0-21) deaf and hard of hearing populations.

Graduate students Morgan Poole and Kara Taylor have collaborated on research analyzing the characteristics of children with cerebral palsy and their relationship to the children’s communication performance. Taylor recently presented on this topic at the National Black Association of Speech, Language, and Hearing (NBASLH) in Tampa, Fla. This summer Poole and Taylor will give oral research presentations at the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) in Barcelona, Spain in July and the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) in Athens, Greece in August. Poole and Taylor have been selected to receive American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine’s (AACPDM) Student Travel Scholarships to the 64th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC from September 21-25. They will present a research poster: Hidecker, M. J. C., Poole, M.L., Taylor, K., Paneth, N., Rosenbaum, P., & Kent, R. (2010). Functional performance profiles of children with cerebral palsy. Also, Poole has been awarded a Conway Regional Medical Staff Scholarship for the summer and fall semesters. She was one of 15 students, all of whom are pursuing careers in a variety of health related fields, to receive a scholarship from Conway Regional. Adams, Taylor, and Poole’s research projects were mentored by Assistant Professor Mary Jo Cooley Hidecker from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology.

Poole also is the recipient of 2010 National Member Honors for outstanding student performance and potential leadership in the profession of speech-language pathology. As a recipient of Member Honors, Poole is eligible to receive a complimentary registration to attend the 2010 ASHA Convention in Philadelphia.

John Murphy, professor of psychology and counseling, recently completed the following section of a book chapter: “A Client-Directed, Solution-Focused Brief Therapist’s Perspective on Ruth.” In G. Corey, Case approach to counseling and psychotherapy (8th ed.), Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education. (Invited section in a chapter on postmodern approaches to psychotherapy)

Jennifer Brinegar, assistant professor of psychology, presented the paper “Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement” at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Annual Conference in Denver in April. Brinegar, along with J.M. Ottinger, also presented the paper “Baseline Observations in Female Rat Run Rates” at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students in Conway in April. She also presented the paper “Differences in Run Rates of Male Rats Based on Free-Fed vs. 90% weight vs. 80% weight” with W.D. Sims and “Individual Patterns of Responding in Male Rats” with K.P. Wood at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students.

Listed below are the presentations & awards the Department of Psychology and Counseling earned at the annual meeting of the Southwest Psychological Association:

Posters:

• Collins, L. S., Smith, D. & Rowell, K.: Using COGNISTAT to predict dimentia

• Lammers, B. J. & Savina, E.: Perceptions of outstanding university teachers in the United States and Russia

• Tkachuk, K: Effect of preference for consistency on perception of appearance (Sponsor: Booher)

• Bihm, E. & Marsden, T. M.: Test-anxious thoughts: Dimensions and time course

• Hopper, J. L.: Student-Teacher Relationships Quality Matters… But What is Being Done About
It?

• Broussard, B. G., Edgin, G. W., & Hoggard, K. P.: The Effects of Gender and Activity on Time
Spent in Car (Sponsor: Booher)

• Bullard, T. K.: The Relationship between Social and Probability Discounting (Sponsor: Charlton)

• Cagle, F. K.: The Student-Instructor Relationship Scale as a Predictor of Academic Success

• Zunick, P. & Nail, P.: Happiness and Other Psychological Correlates of Political Orientation

• Riels, A., Long, B. & Charlton, S. R.: Democrats and Republicans: Psychologically, Ideologically, or altogether different?

• Smith, D., Crocker, L. B., Staton, C., Gillaspy, A., & Charlton, S. R.: Psychometric Properties of the Outcome Rating Scale in a Non-Clinical Population.

• Wilson, K. & Charlton, S. R.: The psychometric properties of an online measure of temporal discounting

• Rowell, K.: Factor Structure of the COGNISTAT in an In-Patient Geropsychiatric Sample

• Varghese, F. P.: Employment Attitudes of Graduating College Students

• Hood, E. K., Hopper, J. L., Smith, D., & Collins, L. S.: Methamphetamine use: Evaluation of a
predictive model based upon gateway hypothesis

SWPA Talks:

• Abbott, H.: Are we green, grey, or do we just act that way? (Finalist: SWPA Research
Competition; Sponsor: Charlton)

• Gossett, B.: Delayed Risk Taking (Finalist: SWPA Research Competition; Sponsor: Charlton)

• Crunkleton, J.: To deceive or not to deceive? Testing cognitive dissonance theory without
deception (First Place Winner: SWPA Research Competition, Sponsor: Nail)

• Zunick, P.: Political Orientation and Prejudice: A Test of the Integrated Model of Racism
(Finalist: Graduate; Sponsor: Nail)

• Gossett, B. & Sobel, K.: Resistance to visual capture varies with individual differences in
working memory capacity

Psi Chi Talks:

• Cameron, B.: Anticipated Interaction and Dovidio and Gaertner’s (2005) Integrated Model of
Racism (Winner: Undergraduate Regional Research Award; Sponsor: Nail)

• Porter, C.: Cross-cultural differences in social and group discounting (Winner: Undergraduate
Regional Research Award; Sponsor: Charlton)

• Tosha, H. T.: No Need to Lie: Testing Cognitive Dissonance Theory without Deception (Winner:Undergraduate Regional Research Award; Sponsor: Nail)

• Fuqua, W.: Does Inequality Cause Differences between Conservatives and Liberals in
Happiness? (Sponsor: Nail)

Symposium:

• Crocker, L. B.: Psi Chi: Conversation Hour – How to Develop Leadership Skills (Chair)

• Crocker, L. B.: Psi Chi: Conversation Hour-Build and Maintain Vital Psi Chi Chapter (Chair)

• Crocker, L. B.: Psi Chi Poster Session 2 (Chair)

• Crocker, L. B.: Psi Chi: Panel-Top 10 Questions About Graduate School (Chair)

Dr. Wen Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, was recently awarded an INBRE (Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence) Grant for Summer 2010. Wang will be working with Martin Hauer-Jenson, MD, PhD, FACS of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Surgery, and Pathology at UAMS to develop a wound healing model. Wang is interested in wound healing associated with diabetes. The Arkansas INBRE is funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. William D. “Bill” Bandy, a professor of physical therapy, was recently awarded the Lucy Blair Service Award from the American Physical Therapy Association. The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is a national professional organization representing more than 74,000 members. Each year, the association recognizes a small group of individuals nationwide for their contributions to the association.Bandy is the first recipient of this award in Arkansas since the inception of the award in 1969. The goal of the association is to foster advancements in physical therapy practice, research, and education. To be eligible for the award, nominees must be physical therapists whose contributions were of exceptional value to the association. Bandy teaches courses in orthopedics, sports, and research. He has over 40 publications including three textbooks.

Dr. Barbara G. Williams, chair of the Department of Nursing, was recently appointment to the Board of Trustees for Conway Regional Health Systems. She will serve a four-year term.

Dr. Nelda New, graduate nursing program director, made the presentation “Teach So They Can Hear: Using a Co-Created Diabetes Self Management Education Approach” at the Arkansas Association of Diabetes Educators in Little Rock on Feb. 11. The presentation is from her dissertation entitled: “The Development and Outcomes of a Co-created Diabetes Self-Management Education Intervention: A Pilot Study.”

Dr. Bill Bandy, professor of physical therapy, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sports Physical Therapy Section of the American Physical Therapy Association during the awards ceremony at the 2010 American Physical Therapy Associations Combined Sections Meeting held Feb. 17-20 in Las Vegas. The award is to honor a sports physical therapy member whose contributions to the specialty of sports physical therapy through leadership, influence and achievements have been demonstrated for over 25 years. Dr. Bandy is a recent past board member of the American Physical Therapy Association and currently the Editor-in-Chief of the North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy.

The following presentations were recently made by Department of Physical Therapy faculty at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting held February 17-20 in Las Vegas:

Dr. Steve Forbush, assistant professor of physical therapy,: Influence of Activity Levels versus Energy Intake on Percent Excess Weight Loss (%EWL) after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Procedures (RYGBP). Forbush S, Nof L*, Echternach J*, Hill C*. *Physical Therapy Program of Nova Southeastern University, Davie, FL.

Dr. Kevin Garrison, assistant professor of physical therapy and Dr. Steve Forbush, assistant professor of physical therapy,: Variation of Extensor Medii Proprius: A Case Report. Kevin Garrison, Hao Liu*, Steve Forbush. *Physical Therapy Department of University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.

Dr. Wen Wang, assistant professor of physical therapy,: Evaluation of Canes Used by Older Adults in Senior Communities. Hao Liu*, Wen Wang. *Physical Therapy Department of University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.

Dr. Steve Forbush, assistant professor of physical therapy,: Surface Anatomy and Nerve Innervation of the Sinus Tarsi: Cadaver Study. Hao Liu*, Steve Forbush. *Physical Therapy Department of University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.

Dr. Charlotte Yates, assistant professor of physical therapy,: Post-Tetanic Potentiatin (PTP) of the H-reflex in spinal cord transected rats. C. Yates, S. Mori*, R.D. Skinner*, and E. Garcia-Rill*. Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences and Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Dr. David Skotko, chairperson of the Department of Psychology and Counseling, is currently in Shanghai, China working with faculty and administrators at East China Normal University on creating a PhD program in clinical psychology, while working with graduate students on their research projects. Professor Gen Wenxiu, a senior professor from ECNU, has visited the psychology faculty at UCA learning how the Department of Psychology and Counseling has structured its graduate programs.

The following students and faculty have had articles recently published:

Smith, S.,a graduate of school psychology PhD program, and faculty members Simon, J., & Bramlett, R.K. (2009). Effects of positive peer reporting on social acceptance and negative behaviors among peer-rejected preschool children. Journal of Applied School Psychology, 25, 323-341.

Hopper, J., a current student in the school psychology PhD program; McChristian, C., a graduate of the school psychology PhD program; and faculty member Murphy, J. J. (2009). The Teacher-Student Relationship: A Legitimate Target of Consultation, Prevention and Intervention. ASPA Voice (Spring Issue), 6-9.

Hopper, J. and Temchenko, I.,current students in the school psychology PhD program. (2009). A Review of Treatment Acceptability in the School Setting. Presented at the fall Conference of the Arkansas Psychology Association (ArPA), Little Rock, AR.

Murphy, J.J., a faculty member, and Hopper, J., a current student in the school psychology PhD program, (2009). Improving Student-Teacher Relationships. Presented at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Association of Teacher Educators (ARATE), Conway, AR.

Hall, J., Hopper, J., Burgin, J., Lester, M., current students in the school psychology program, and faculty member Bramlett, R. (2009). Stimulant Medication Trends. ASPA Voice (Fall Issue), 4-5.

Boniecki, K.A., faculty member. Home Performance in Championship Games: An Update. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Benish, T., a graduate of the school psychology PhD program and faculty member Bramlett, R.K. (March 2010). Using Social Stories to Decrease Aggression and Increase Positive Peer Interactions in Normally Developing Preschool Children. Paper presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, Chicago, IL.

Lester, M., Hopper, J., Burgin, J., Hall, J., current students in the school psychology PhD program, and faculty member Bramlett, R.K. (March 2010). College Trends in Stimulant Medication. Paper presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, Chicago, IL.

Bramlett, R.K., a faculty members and Savina, E., graduate of the school psychology PhD program, and Cates, G.L., Lauinger, B. (2010). Assessing effectiveness and efficiency of academic interventions in school psychology journals: 1995-2005. Psychology in the Schools, 47, 114-125.

Hopper, J., a current student in the school psychology PhD program, and faculty member Murphy, J. J. (March 2010). Practical Interventions for Improving Teacher-Student Relationships. Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, Chicago, IL.

Sobel, K.V., faculty member. Using the drawing and animation tools in PowerPoint to build your own visual perception demonstrations. Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology.

Varghese, F.P., Hardin E.E., Bauer, R.L. and Morgan, R.D. , faculty members, (in press). Attitudes toward Hiring Offenders: The Roles of Criminal History, Job Qualifications, and Race. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Gillaspy, J.A., & Murphy, J.J., faculty members, (in press). Incorporating outcome and session rating scales in Soultion-focused Brief Therapy. In C. Franklin, T. Trepper, W. Gingerich, & E. McCollum (Eds.), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bihm, E.M., Gillaspy, J.A., Abbott, H. J., & Lammers, W.J., faculty members, (in press). More misbehavior of organisms: A Psi Chi lecture by Marian and Robert Bailey. Psychological Record.

Bihm, E.M., Gillaspy, J. A., Lammers, W.J., & Huffman, S. , faculty members (in press). IQ Zoo and teaching operant concepts. Psychological Record.

Nail, P., & Boniecki, K., faculty members, (in press). Cognitive Dissonance. In D. Chadee’ s (Ed.) Theories of Social Psychology. Blackwell Publishing.

Dr. Pam Bennett, assistant professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, presented “Cinching Up Families While They Stretch Their Budgets: Helping Financially Distressed Families During Difficult Times” at the 18th annual International Conference on Parent Education and Parenting. The conference was held Feb 18-19 on the campus to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Dr. Bennett currently teaches Parenting Issues, Personal & Family Finance, and Consumer Economics.

Veronica T. Rowe, a clinical instructor with the Department of Occupational Therapy, was recently certified as a brain injury specialist trainer by the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS). The ACBIS offers a nationally recognized credential for experienced professionals working in brain injury services, through a training program, followed by a national certification examination. Rowe’s new certification qualifies her to provide training courses for individuals who are preparing for the brain injury specialist examination. To achieve certification as a trainer, she demonstrated skills in the areas of training, supervision, and teaching within the brain injury field.

Dr. Jacquie Rainey, a professor in the Department of Health Sciences and associate dean of the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently presented a lecture entitled “What can you do about low health literacy as a health professional”. The lecture was part of the video-teleconference series sponsored by the Arkansas Geriatric Education Center, the GRECC at the Arkansas VA hospital, and the Reynolds Institute on Aging at UAMS. The lecture was intended to teach strategies for improving health communication with low literate populations. There were over 30 sites within the state and region signed up to receive the telecast. The University of Central Arkansas is a partner in the Arkansas Geriatric Education Center.

Nina Roofe, a clinical instructor in the Department of Family and Consumer Services, made a presentation entitled “Early Intervention: Overcoming Developmental Delays of Prematurity” at the 61st annual Southern Early Childhood Association meeting in Little Rock on Jan. 22.

Dr. John Murphy, professor of psychology was an invited speaker by the U.S. Department of Defense/Adolescent Substance Abuse Counseling Services (ASACS) at a an event where he provided training to psychotherapists and counselors in the ASACS program in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. The title of his presentation was “Brief Intervention in Schools: Addressing Risk and Protective Factors in Substance Abuse Counseling.”
　
Paul Nail, assistant professor of Psychology , had the following articles published in 2009:
Nail, P. R., & McGregor, I. (2009). Conservative shift among liberals and conservatives following 9/11/01. Social Justice Research, 22, 231-240

Nail, P. R., McGregor, I., Drinkwater, A. E., Steele, G. M., & Thompson, T. W. (2009). Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 901-907.

Nail, P. R. (2009). Anticonformity. In John M. Levine & Michael A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of group processes and intergroup relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

And the following papers or posters:

Nail, P. R. (2009, October). Influencing difficult people: The strategic self-anticonformity technique. Invited address, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Portland, Maine.

Son Hing, L., Zanna, M. P., & Nail, P. R. (2009, October). Using implicit attitudes to disambiguate prejudice on the right and on the left. Invited address, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Portland, Maine.

Nail, P. R., Broussard, B. G., & Edgin, G. (2009, April). Mortality salience causes anti-gay sentiment among psychological liberals. Poster presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Zunick, P., & Nail, P. R. (2009, April). Effects of modern racism and political orientation on voting intentions in 2008. Poster presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Shane Irgens, Department of Physical Therapy Class of 2010, was recently elected to the 2009-2010 American Physical Therapy Association’s Student Assembly Board of Directors. Irgens attended APTA National Student Conclave held in Miami on Oct. 30- Nov. 1, 2009 during which he campaigned for the national office. The Student Assembly is a component of the American Physical Therapy Association comprised of all student members currently at 15,775 members.

Several first, second, and third year students attended APTA National Student Conclave held in Miami on Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2009. This national conference is held annually specifically for students of physical therapy for programming, workshops and social events as well as Student Assembly elections. Upon return, students reported that it was amazing to meet so many PT students, attend workshops that they actually understood and meet APTA leaders.

Dr. Letha J. Mosley, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, was recently named chair of the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education. The council is the governing body for accreditation of occupational therapy and occupational therapy educational programs in the United States. It develops and revises the Standards for Educational Programs, and oversees the accreditation review processes. Mosley’s term runs through August 2012. She previously served on the council from 1997 to 2003. She came to UCA in August of 2005.

Dr. David Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, along with former research assistant and 2009 graduate, Kesa Tiarks, published an article in September in Physical Therapy, the Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. The article, which focused on their work regarding exercise and patients with type 2 diabetes, is titled “Impact of physical therapist-directed exercise counseling combined with fitness center-based exercise training on muscular strength and exercise capacity in people with type 2 diabetes: a randomized clinical trial”. (Physical Therapy. 2009; 89:884-892).

Dr. Hao Liu, associate professor, recently left UCA to begin teaching at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. UNTHSC is currently developing a new Doctor of Physical Therapy program at their Fort Worth campus and is chaired by Dr. Clayton Holmes, a former UCA Physical Therapy faculty member. Dr. Liu taught Gross Anatomy and Neuroscience in the Department of Physical Therapy since 2003. He came to UCA from the University of Mississippi Medical Center where he completed his doctoral work. Dr. Liu will continue to teach Gross Anatomy and neuroscience in his new position in Texas.

Dr. Chad Lairamore joined the Department of Physical Therapy in January as a visiting instructor and will teach in the area of neuromuscular physical therapy. Dr. Lairamore received his degree from UCA in 2000 and recently completed the PhD in physical therapy degree from UCA in 2009. He comes to UCA from Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Little Rock where he worked with patients with stroke and brain injury. His research interest is in the area of restoration of mobility in individuals post neurological injury. He completed his dissertation entitled “Comparison of tibialis anterior muscle electromyography, ankle kinetics, and velocity during gait for subjects post cerebral vascular accident with and without orthotics.” Dr. Lairamore will be presenting his findings in June at the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Physical Therapy Association in Boston.

Dr. Charlotte Yates, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, presented a talk at the Southeast IDeA Regional meeting held in Charleston, South Carolina in November 2009. The talk was entitled, “Elimination of hyperflexia in Spinal Cord Injury with Modafinil.” The meeting was hosted by the South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence. Research for the talk was completed at the Center for Translational Neuroscience at UAMS.

Dr. Charlotte Yates, assistant professor, and Dr. Nancy Reese, professor and chairperson of the Department of Physical Therapy, recently had an article published in Spinal Cord (2009;47,481-485) entitled “Modafinil normalizes hyperreflexia after spinal transaction in adult rats.” Co-authors included Charlesworth, A., Skinner, RD., and Garcia-Rill, E.

Dr. Mary Jo Cooley-Hidecker, assistant professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, has recently published three articles. They are: “Building the evidence for communication interventions: Commentary on ‘Increasing the speech intelligibility of older children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy,” Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03389.x. (September 2009 early online preview); “Cerebral palsy and aging,” Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 51(Suppl.4), 16-23, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03428.x. Co-authors included Haak, P., Lenski, M., Li, M., & Paneth, N.; and “Using family paradigms to improve evidence-based practice,” American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18(3), 212-221. Co-authors included Jones, R.S., Imig, D.R., & Villarruel, F.A.

Dr. Dee Lance’s, associate professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, article “Treating Reading Comprehension Deficits in Children with Language Impairment,” was recently published in SpeechPathology.com. Co-author was Barton, A.

Dr. Gary McCullough, associate professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, has three articles that have been accepted and will be published soon. They are: “Initiation and duration of laryngeal closure during the pharyngeal swallow in post-stroke patients,” Dysphagia. Co-author Kim,Y.; “Maximum hyoid excursion in post-stroke patients,” Dysphagia, Co-author Kim, Y.; and “The precarious private life of professor father fiction chef and other possible poignancies,” an essay in Papa, Ph.D.

Shawn Charlton, assistant professor of psychology, and co-authors Charlton, V. A., Gossett, B., & Hawkins, J. published their article “Slippery when whet: What facilitated communication teaches about the importance of data-based decision-making,” in The British Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 56(1), 67 – 71.

Paul Nail, assistant professor of psychology, has been named a lifetime member of the Southwestern Psychological Association for his 31 years of service to the organization, including serving as president in 2005-06. Nail was also elevated to the status of Fellow in the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in October.