Kurt Geisinger, director of the Buros Center for Testing and professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been elected a Fellow of IAAP, by the International Association of Applied Psychology. The rank of fellow is the highest level of membership in IAAP. The group describes a fellow as a “distinguished psychologist who has made substantial contributions to applied psychology.”
Geisinger will receive a certificate for the honor during the closing ceremony at the 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology in Montreal, Canada in June. He is an active member of the body and currently serves on their board of directors as president-elect, Division 2: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation.
Neeta Kantamneni, associate professor in Educational Psychology, has been selected as the 2017-18 Fritz & Linn Kuder Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Counseling Psychology recipient from the Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17, of the American Psychological Association. The award was established to honor distinguished scientific contributions by an early career psychologist to counseling psychology. Recipients of the Award have an established record of scientific contributions to counseling psychology. Contributions to science are typically made through publication of either research findings or theory that generates research.
Kantamneni will be honored at the Division 17 business meeting Aug. 11 at the 2018 APA Conference in San Francisco. She will also receive a monetary award and a plaque.