LSA 50th Reunion, May 19-20, 2005
The College of LSA hosted a 50th
Reunion celebration for the Classes of ’53 and ’54. Professor David Meyer, of
the Cognition and Perception Area, was
a featured speaker during the LSA Showcase
at that event. A number of alumni
attended and enjoyed his talk, Mastering
Multitasking. An interview with Meyer
about his multitasking research aired recently
on the nationally syndicated NPR
program, The Infinite Mind. Articles
about Meyer’s research have appeared over the past year in the New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street
Journal, Business Week, and other public
news media.
Coming Up!
U-M Psychology Alumni Gathering, August 18
Join us at APA on Thursday,
August 18, 6-8pm, following the APA
Opening Session. Your hosts for the
reception will be Professor and Chair Rich Gonzalez and Professor Emeritus
Bill McKeachie, PhD’49. They look
forward to seeing all of you who plan
to attend the APA Convention, as well as any of you who live or will be in the
area at that time. Card tables will be set
up—Bill is itching for the chance to play
a few hands of Murder! Registration for
the convention is not required to attend
this event. You will find us in Meeting
Room 16 of the Renaissance Washington
DC Hotel, located at 999 Ninth Street
NW, directly across the street from
the Washington Convention Center.
For more information about the hotel (including maps and the room location),
visit their website at: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/WASRB. An
RSVP to psych.alumni@umich.edu or 734.764.7429 is requested.
Psychology Homecoming Tailgate, October 8
Last fall, Psychology season ticket
holders were invited to our inaugural
Homecoming tailgate in honor of Wilbert ‘Bill’ McKeachie, PhD’49, and it was
a great success. Bill—also a former department
chair, longtime faculty member
and mentor to many—thoroughly
enjoyed greeting Psychology alumni,
faculty and students. It was a gorgeous
football Saturday—perfect weather for
tailgating—and we enjoyed catching up
with old friends and meeting new ones.
The food was delicious, the company
superb, and we beat Northwestern! We
couldn’t have asked for a better day. Of
course, if you join us, this year’s tailgate
will be even better. We now plan for this
to be an annual event for all psychology
alumni. Join us on Saturday, October 8,
three hours before game time. Check our
website for more information and
to make a reservation.
Alumni News
Research by a team led by Jason
Riis, PhD’03, while he was at U-M
was the subject of a February article in
the New York Times. The study, described
in The Journal of Experimental Psychology,
compared levels of happiness between a
group of people with end-stage kidney
failure with that of a group of healthy
people. Both groups were provided with
electronic devices that prompted them
to record their moods at various times throughout the day. They found that the
levels of happiness were about the same
for the two groups, and concluded that it
would take a lot more than most people
think to make a person permanently
miserable. Riis is now at Princeton.
Benita Jackson, PhD’00, married
Samuel Ruhmkorff on March 20, 2004.
She is Assistant Professor of Psychology
at Smith College and a post-doctoral
research fellow at Harvard Medical
School studying how social factors affect
respiratory health.
Rebecca Goldenberg Schoepfer,
AB’99, married Matthew Schoepfer
on April 3. She is a psychologist at the
Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC, and is a doctoral
candidate in industrial organizational
psychology at George Washington U.
David Schwalb, PhD’85, and
Barbara Schwalb, PhD’87, recently coauthored
(with Dr. Jun Nakazawa) their
third book, Applied Developmental Psychology:
Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan
(Information Age Publishing, 2005).
It was dedicated to Professor Emeritus
Bill McKeachie, PhD’49, and to Harold
Stevenson
Naomi Schechter, PhD’78, and B.
Shimon Schwarzschild were married
on October 3, 2004. She is a practicing
psychologist and artist in Manhattan.
Please send your news to
psych.alumni@umich.edu or at https://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/community/.
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