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Richard Davidson, who has devoted his career to understanding how the brain regulates human emotions, is one of 100 prominent personalities featured by the magazine.
Rita Hohlstein, clinical associate professor for the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, received the Wisconsin Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Leadership.
Five faculty members, including Christopher Coe of the Waisman Center, have received the 2006 Hilldale Awards, which annually recognize excellence in teaching, research and service.
The Waisman Center's Early Childhood program was recently awarded a Wisconsin Idea Grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowment.
Waisman researcher Seth Pollak, PhD, been selected as a recipient of the 2006 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. As
Ned A. Kalin, the Hedberg Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and chair of the department of psychiatry at the UW Medical School, has received the national Edward A. Strecker Award for 2005.
H. Hill Goldsmith, Ph.D., has been elected President of the Behavior Genetics Association.
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, the Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology at UW-Madison, is president-elect of the American Psychological Society, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology.
The Friends reception took place on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the 8th floor Ziemann Suite.
Dean Gary Sandefur has announced that Jon Miller, professor of communicative disorders and director of the Waisman Center's Language Analysis Laboratory, has been named interim associate dean for research policy and outreach in the College of Letters and Science.
