Notables

Stephen J. Ceci, the Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology in the College of Human Ecology, is the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Public Policy for Children Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He was recognized for his contribution to the development of public policy in the field of child development. The award will be presented at SRCD's biennial meeting in Tampa in April 2003. Ceci studies the accuracy of children's courtroom testimony and the development of intelligence and memory. He is the author of about 300 articles, books and chapters, and has given hundreds of invited addresses around the world. Ceci has received numerous honors, including a Senior Fulbright-Hayes fellowship, a National Institutes of Health Research Career Scientist Award, the IBM Supercomputing Prize, three Senior Mensa Foundation Research Prizes, the American Psychological Association's Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society and the Arthur Rickter Award.

Alice M. Isen, the S.C. Johnson Professor of Marketing in the Johnson Graduate School of Management and professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of three scholars awarded fellow status this year by the Society for Consumer Psychology. According to the society's award: "Isen's work on mood has been a major stimulus to the exploding interest in 'affect' in our field in the past 15 years. Her systematic and programmatic work has clarified many complex and seemingly intractable issues. Although she has made many contributions to basic psychology, she is very much a presence in the field of consumer psychology. Her work has addressed important and practical issues in regard to the link between emotions and cognition."

Sandra Steingraber, the Cornell ecologist and author who studies health effects of exposure to environmental toxins, is featured in a Bill Moyers television special report, "Kids and Chemicals," scheduled to air on PBS stations Friday, May 10, at 9 p.m. The episode in Moyers' "NOW" series is described as a cross-country investigation into the causes of childhood illnesses that might be caused by environmental toxins, including asthma, leukemia and other cancers, as well as learning and behavioral disabilities. Steingraber is a visiting professor in the Center for the Environment's Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors program and the author of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood.