2015 Lachman Memorial Lecture & Psychology Student Recognition Day
Sponsored by PSI CHI and The Department of Psychology. Supported by The Sheldon Lachman Memorial Fund.
Time and location
Speaker
Kipling D. Williams, Ph.D.
"Ostracism: The Power of Silence"
Kipling Williams is professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University, where he has taught since 2004. He earned his B.S. from the University of Washington-Seattle (1975) and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at The Ohio State University (1981). Prior to coming to Purdue, Williams was on faculties at Macquarie University and University of New South Wales (both in Sydney, Australia), University of Toledo (Ohio), and Drake University (Iowa). He is a pioneer and world-leading expert on social and psychological dynamics of ostracism. In addition to his authored book, Ostracism: The Power of Silence, he has edited nine books, including The Social Outcast, and the soon-to-be-published Handbook of Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection. He has been an associate editor of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice, as well as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and is currently the editor of Social Influence. Since 2003, he has taught an annual one-week intensive course on Ostracism at the Free University-Amsterdam and has also conducted ostracism workshops in Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia.
His research interests include ostracism, social influence, and motivation in groups. He has published over 140 articles and chapters, with articles in Science, Scientific American-MIND, Psychological Science, and other top journals in the field of social psychology. The Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation have funded his research. In 2012, he was a Lorentz Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He was a co-winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological (AAAS), and Purdue University's College of Health and Human Sciences Research Achievement Award (2011) and the College of Health and Human Sciences Faculty Engagement Award (2014). He is past president of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists and the Midwestern Psychological Association.
| Psychology student awards | Recipients |
|---|---|
| The Distinguished Achievement Undergraduate Scholarships | Joseph Nathaniel Lombardo Damaris Emily Pop |
| The Charles L. Gdowski Memorial Award | Michael Sugarman |
| The Norine G. Johnson Clinical Psychology Award | Jennifer Carty |
| The Gerald Rosenbaum Clinical Psychology Award | Annalise Rahman |
| The John Teahan Memorial Award | Maisa Ziadni |
| The Julie A. Thomas Memorial Scholarship Award | Sean Mooney-Leber |
| The Steven A. Lewis Memorial Award | Mahya Rahimian Mashhadi |
| Graduate Student Service Award | Nia Billings |
| Graduate Student Service Award | Mgrdich Sirabionian |
| Psychology Department Teaching Award- Independent Course | Corissa Carlson |
| Psychology Department Teaching Award- Laboratory Course | Shan Ran |
| The Ross & Margaret Stagner Memorial Award | Michael Sugarman |