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APAGS news
Be an APAGS convention ambassador Students looking to maximize their networking opportunities at APA's 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 17–20, can sign up to be an ambassador for APAGS. Ambassadors provide information on convention events, distribute APAGS promotional items and monitor APAGS programs by taking head counts and collecting participant evaluations. For details visit www.apa.org/apags/convention/homepage.html. Apply for 2007 scholarships and awards The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) seeks applications for its 2007 scholarships, grants and awards, which recognize students and those who support them for excellence in several areas such as working with underserved populations or researching diversity. To be eligible to apply or nominate a candidate, graduate students must be enrolled in good standing at least part time at a regionally accredited university. Applications and nominations are due May 15, unless otherwise noted. For application instructions and submission guidelines, visit the APAGS Web site at: www.apa.org/apags/members/schawrdsintro.html. The 2007 awards are:
Students: Vote for APAGS leaders The ballot period for the 2007 APAGS elections is this month. During the ballot period, APAGS members can read candidate statements and vote online at the APAGS Web site: www.apa.org/apags. APAGS encourages all members to vote. The last day to vote is March 30. APAGS congratulates award winners Nadine Jernewal, of George Washington University, and Konjit Page, of the University of North Dakota are the winners of the APAGS-CEMA National Multicultural Summit Travel Grant. Each received a $500 travel grant to attend the APA-sponsored National Multicultural Conference and Summit in Seattle in January. Claire Gilligan, of Antioch University New England, won the APAGS Membership Training Program Contest. Gilligan participated in an APAGS Membership Recruitment Program at APA's 2006 Annual Convention, where students learned to give APAGS membership presentations locally on their college campuses. Gilligan turned in the most new APA student affiliate applications and won the grand prize, a $250 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Nominate colleagues for Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award APA's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) seeks nominations for the Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology, which recognizes work that contributes to a better understanding of psychological issues and concerns facing ethnic minorities. Tanaka was an Asian-American psychologist whose work emphasized the importance of culture and ethnicity in the scientific understanding of behavior. To be eligible for the award, applicants must have filed their dissertations in 2004 or 2005 on research involving one or more of the following areas:
A CEMA-appointed selection subcommittee will choose the winner through an anonymous review process. Criteria include the dissertation's effect on ethnic-minority populations, completeness, clarity, creativity and the effectiveness of the research design. The subcommittee will choose semifinalists from submitted abstracts. Semifinalists must submit copies of their entire dissertations for the final selection process. The winner receives a nominal cash award, a travel award sponsored by APA's Science Directorate to APA's 2007 Annual Convention, Aug. 17–20, in San Francisco, registration fees and an invitation to share the dissertation's highlights at the convention. The application deadline is April 1. Applications should include four copies of an abstract that is fewer than 1,000 words. The dissertation title should appear on all four copies, although only one should identify the author and provide an e-mail, mailing address and daytime telephone number. Send submissions to the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the APA address. For additional information, call (202) 336-6029 or visit www.apa.org/pi/oema/programs. Apply for students with disabilities award The APA Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology (CDIP) seeks nominations for the first annual Mentorship of Students with Disabilities Award. The award recognizes psychologists who have provided outstanding formal or informal mentoring to psychology students with disabilities at the graduate, internship or postdoctoral level. Although students may nominate a supervisor for the award, the nomination statement should clarify ways in which the nominee has provided mentoring beyond regular supervisory responsibilities. Nominees may be individuals with or without a disability, and nominations from career-level psychologists regarding mentoring relationships during training will be accepted, though the committee especially encourages nominations from current trainees. The nominating trainee should provide a statement describing the mentoring relationship, and the mentor should provide a curriculum vitae and a statement describing his or her own background and the mentoring relationship. Statements from the trainee should include the following:
Nominations and supporting materials are due by June 15. E-mail them to Sara Laney, administrative coordinator in the Disability Issues Office, at . The award will be presented at APA's 2007 Annual Convention. —E. Packard Also in APAGS news …
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