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Kudos to Alliant International University Students

2007

 

The manuscript "The Relationship between Anxiety and Sexual Functioning in Lesbians and Heterosexual Women" by San Francisco CSPP PhD student Tera Beaber and Professor Paul Werner has been accepted for publication in Journal of Homosexuality. Tera Beaber is the recipient of the American Psychological Association Division 44’s 2007 Bisexual Foundation Award.

 

The Scholarships Committee of the American Psychological Association’s Division 44, the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues, has selected Alliant student Tera Beaber’s research proposal entitled "Well-Being among Bisexual Females" to receive The 2007 Bisexual Foundation Award, which is intended to advance research on the psychology of bisexuality. She receive a monetary award and certificate from APA and a was invited to present her work at the APA's 2007 annual convention. News of Beaber’s research was published in the Division 44 Newsletter. More.

 

Leon Smith, a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education (GSOE) presented his dissertation topic at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Conference (HPAIR) in August in Beijing, China. He participated in the Social Policy workshop led by Harvard University Professor of Psychology Dr. Weihua “Edwards.” The delegates to the HPAIR conference are top university students, chosen from an international pool of over 1200 applicants. Leon then traveled to Hong Kong, where he took part in the International Business Conference. More.

 

CSPP PsyD student Ernest Fung has co-authored “Pediatric Transplant Rating Instrument (P-TRI) - A Scale for the Pre-Transplant Psychiatric Evaluation of Pediatric Organ Transplant Recipients,” to be published in the Pediatric Transplantation journal. 

 

CSPP-SF student Loren King presented her poster "Euthanasia, Cause of Death, and Responses Following the Loss of a Companion Animal" at the Western Psychological Association annual convention in Vancouver, BC May 4-6.

 

Current Pain and Headache Reports has published “Does Aerobic Exercise Improve Pain Perception and Mood?” co-written by Sacramento PsyD student Debi Rufi Hoffman.

 

MGSM student Daniel Kuzmycz’s article about Marshall Goldsmith School of Management thought leader Gary Ranker was published in the autumn 2007 issue of Training Australia Magazine.

 

Kuzmyca, allong with fellow MGSM Consulting Psychology doctoral students Avi Avigdor, Deborah Braun, and Jennifer Konkin, and Professor Bernardo Ferdman presented the Interactive Paper "Workgroup Inclusion, Diversity, and Performance" at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Philadelphia in August.

 

Los Angeles Clinical PhD students Constandina Palivos and April Thames received the program's first annual research scholarship.

 

PhD student Sybille Ulrike was profiled in the April 20th edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. That same month she, along with CSPP Professor Rhoda Olkin (also the Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology), presented a poster session of the first dissertation in American Sign Language in the country to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

 

Center for Forensic Studies students Oscar Githua, Hilary Trytten, Jennifer Kadin-Hoestra, Shiloh Cantanese and Avetis Topchyan took part in a symposium at The American-Psychology Law Society Annual Conference in Adelaide, Australia in July. Students Lisa Sandoval and Sean Mintz present posters on their research there.

 

Thordis "Disa" Runarsdottir received a Science Directorate student research award from the American Psychological Association (APA) for her doctoral dissertation "Disordered Eating in Iceland: Prevalence, Correlates and Cultural Insights", that extensively surveyed 700 Icelandic girls and women. She presented her findings at "Psychological Science Superstars: Datablitz!", a special session at the APA Annual Convention in August for excellent graduate school posters sponsored by the APA Science Student Council and the APA Board of Scientific Affairs. More.

 

2006

 

Antoinette Swayne-Kohlman, a PhD student in Organizational Studies at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management in San Francisco, received the national Student Practitioner Award from the Section for Sociological Practice of the American Sociological Association. The award was presented at the 101th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in August in Montreal.

 

 

CSPP PhD student Shawn Giammattei received the first Connell Persico scholarship award of $3500. Mr. Giammattei was recognized for outstanding scholarship and leadership in the LGBT community: He created a 70-minute video chronicling the history of the lesbian and gay civil rights movement; he completed two years of clinical training at the Alternative Family Institute, a family counseling center where he started a support group for lesbian and gay parents that later became known as the Mamas and Papas Group of San Francisco; and he currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies published by Haworth Press. More.

 

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