News Release
June 19, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact: Brian Weaver
(202) 783.2077 ext. 3022
bweaver@psychologicalscience.org
U Michigan's Park Elected to APS Board
Denise C. Park has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society (APS). APS is the leading organization of academic psychologists in the United States and is devoted to scientific psychology. The Society has more than 14,000 members, publishes three highly regarded journals, and is recognized as a leading voice in Washington, DC, for psychological science.
"APS is important for its focus purely on the scientific rather than treatment aspects of psychology," Park said. "I think the emphasis APS places on the translation of scientific work into public policy outcomes is particularly important and impressive. The most significant problems in our society-conflict, poverty, and destruction of the environment-have their roots in behaviors. APS does a terrific job of helping the public and Congress understand the importance of basic psychological research and its importance for society."
Park's primary research investigates the role of age-related changes in memory function at the basic level-neuroimaging and behavioral studies-as well as the implications of these changes for society. Park directs CACHET: The Center on Aging and Cognition: Health, Education, and Training, at the Institute for Social Research. CACHET is one of the Edward R. Roybal Centers funded by the National Institute on Aging. Park, and APS Fellow and Charter Member, is currently a psychology professor and senior research scientist at the University of Michigan; she will be relocating in September to the University of Illinois as a psychology professor and a senior research scientist at the university's Beckman Institute.
Her term began on June 9, 2002, at the conclusion of the APS Annual Convention in New Orleans. Also elected to the APS Board of Directors are Henry L. Roediger, III, Washington University in St. Louis (APS president-elect), and John T. Cacioppo, The University of Chicago.
The American Psychological Society is dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology research and the "giving away" of psychology in the public interest. For more information on the American Psychological Society, go online to www.psychologicalscience.org.