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This edition of I-O Transfers, Activities, and Social Events includes another set of award winners, moves, and relocations for various members.

Congratulations to David Chan who recently received the Michigan State University Social Science College Award for his outstanding academic achievements and, in particular, for being the recipient of the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award and SIOP’s Edwin Ghiselli Research Design Award.

Also recently honored was the Center for Creative Leadership Senior Fellow, David P. Campbell. During commencement exercises in May, David was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Colorado for his significant achievements and substantial contributions to the fields of organizational psychology, vocational assessment, leadership and creativity. He is widely known through his research, best-selling books, and work on various assessment tests including the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Campbell Leadership Inventory.

The Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) recently launched an annual fellowship program to reward, recognize, and support a graduate student for outstanding research efforts and with high potential for significant contributions to the field of I-O Psychology. Due to a tie for the first annual fellowship, two recipients were selected this year: Robert Ployhart who is in the I-O Psychology doctoral program at Michigan State University. His dissertation topic is on integrating personality tests with situational judgment tests for the prediction of customer service performance; and Jill Ellingson, who is in the Ph.D. program in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, in the School of Business. Her dissertation examines the influence of social desirability on the construct validity of personality measures used in selection. Each recipient received an award of $10,000.00. For those interested in applying for next year’s fellowship, watch for information in TIP, the SIOP webpage, and the HumRRO website (www.Humrro.org ).

Finally, a note of correction regarding past award winners. Fred Oswald e-mailed me recently to inform me (and therefore all of you) that the 1996 Best SIOP Student Poster Listing in the awards section of the July issue of TIP (page 90) was authored by "Frederick L. Oswald & Jeff W. Johnson," not just by Fred as listed. Thanks for pointing this out, Fred—we certainly wouldn’t want to leave anyone out.

With the fall comes a new academic year and a whole bunch of new assignments and positions to report. Starting with the corporate side:

Pete Hudson has moved from PepsiCo to SHL Saville & Holdsworth, where he is now Managing Director of SHL’s Metro New York Office.

Calvin C. (Cal) Hoffman (Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles) wrote to let us know that he has accepted a position as Personnel Research & Measurement Manager with Sempra Energy, headquartered in San Diego. Sempra was formed by the merger of the parent companies of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric. Cal says that now he and his research staff "have a much bigger sandbox to play in!"

Karen B. Paul wrote in that Jayson Shoemaker has joined her and her colleagues, Kevin J. Nilan and Doug Molitor, in 3M’s HR Measurement Systems. Jayson will be working in the survey research area and he is looking forward to helping the group continue to grow and prosper.

Now, turning to the academic side of the house, Bill Rogers informs us that he has recently accepted a position at Grand Valley State University. David Chan has recently joined the faculty at the National University of Singapore. David can be reached at: Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore, e-mail: swkcct@nus.edu.sg, Fax: 65-778-1213

Ted Rosen wanted fellow SIOPians (I like that term) to know that during the 1998-99 academic year, he will be a Visiting Professor at the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management in the Organizational Behavior and Development Program. He will be focusing on OB and management courses with the full-time MBA students and group/ team dynamics work with Executive MIS program participants.

The University of Minnesota Department of Psychology wrote to announce that Paul Sackett, Past President of SIOP, has joined the faculty of its I-O Psychology Graduate Program as Professor of Psychology and principal keyboard artist.

Finally, on a sort of "Inside the NFL" related note (for those of you who watch the HBO show during the football season, you know what I am talking about), I received an interesting update from Jim Morrison (not of the Doors), who chaired the Conversation Hour "I-O Psychologists and Disaster Service" at the 1994 SIOP Conference in Nashville. Jim had this to say:

"Since the conference, I have been privileged to provide mental health interventions at the Oklahoma Bombing, Flight 800, and other American Red Cross national disasters. I-O psychologists who want to experience an authentic adrenaline rush helping disaster victims should consider volunteering for ARC disaster service. This year I have been busy conducting two-day ARC Disaster Mental Health training programs to prepare licensed psychologists and social workers for providing crisis interventions in major disasters. I urge SIOP members who are interested in more information to write to me at: James H. Morrison, 10932 Rosehill Rd., Overland Park, KS 66210." Jim also wanted me to point out that APA has an active Disaster Response Network of psychologists who have taken the required training and act as a resource of volunteers for counseling victims of major disasters.

Imagine, I-O psychologists helping disaster victims. I would guess that such work would make one’s recent rejection from JAP or all that wasted effort on a consulting contract that never came through seem trivial. It’s all perspective. At any rate, until next time, don’t forget to send me those accolades, new assignments, interesting trivia bits and professional updates at Allanhc96@aol.com.

TIP

Vol. 36/No. 2  October, 1998