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- Geoffrey Keppel, Cal psychology professor, dies
- APNewsBreak: Ohio psychology board won't pursue complaint over alleged Guantanamo abuses
- Newly Launched Website, Psychology-School-Online.com, is the Only Unbiased Resource for Pairing Prospective Psychology ...
| Geoffrey Keppel, Cal psychology professor, dies Posted: 03 Feb 2011 07:07 AM PST Geoffrey Keppel was known for some of the most foundational work in the field of human memory. A memorial service is planned for late February in memory of Geoffrey Keppel, a UC Berkeley psychology professor emeritus renowned for his study of human forgetfulness. He was 75 when he died on New Year's Eve from complications associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Professor Keppel became famous for his study on the causes of forgetting, which he found to be the result of multiple memories interfering with one another. He studied how things people had learned in the past interfered with memories of subsequent and similar events, causing people to forget the later events while retaining the earlier memories. Likewise, he studied how memories of later events in some instances could displace earlier memories. Colleagues praised Keppel's research as some of the most foundational work in the field of human memory. Professor Keppel, who received a bachelor's degree in psychology from UC Berkeley, went to graduate school at Northwestern University before returning to Berkeley as an assistant professor. Nine years later, he was named chairman of the psychology department. And while Professor Keppel is most known for his academic research, he was also known for his leadership skills both in and out of the classroom. When Professor Keppel began his tenure as chairman, the psychology department was notorious nationally for infighting as factions preferring applied psychology grappled with those that saw psychology as a primarily academic discipline. Professor Keppel brought the department together, said Gerald Mendelsohn, Professor Keppel's friend and colleague in the department. In 1993 Professor Keppel received UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, given to only a handful of faculty members each year, for his ability to motivate students. "He was one of these people who could get other people to do things when they probably didn't want to," said Donald Riley, another friend and colleague of Professor Keppel. Professor Keppel, who was born in Oakland and raised in Albany, met his wife, Sheila, at a dance class when they were both 13. Professor Keppel is survived by his wife, daughter Melissa Riley of Point Reyes Station, son Peter Keppel of Asheville, N.C., and four grandchildren. The memorial service is planned for Feb. 26 on the UC Berkeley campus. This article appeared on page C - 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| APNewsBreak: Ohio psychology board won't pursue complaint over alleged Guantanamo abuses Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:52 PM PST COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio regulatory board has declined to pursue disciplinary action against a retired Army psychologist accused of observing abusive interrogations of military detainees in Guantanamo and doing nothing to stop them. It's the third time in three years that boards in Ohio and Louisiana decided not to take action against Larry James, dean of professional psychology at Wright State University in Dayton. "It has been determined that we are unable to proceed to formal action in this matter," Ohio Psychology Board investigator Carolyn Knauss said in a one-page letter dated Jan. 26. Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic, which helped research the complaint against James, released the letter to the AP late Wednesday. The board's executive director, Ronald Ross, said Thursday that he could not comment on any complaints that result in no further action by the board. The complaint says James oversaw abuse at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2003, 2007 and 2008 when he served with the base's Behavioral Science Consultation Team. "Detainees were systematically abused while Dr. James served on and allegedly led the Guantanamo BSCT," said the complaint filed last summer. It said he both endorsed the abuse and did nothing to prevent it. In one instance, the complaint said, James initially watched without intervening while an interrogator and three guards subjected a near-naked man to sexual humiliation by forcing him to wear women's underwear, and only intervened when he was concerned someone might get hurt, according to the complaint. James said in his 2008 book, "Fixing Hell," that the Army sent him to clean up abuses in Guantanamo and later in the Abu Ghraib detention centre in Iraq. He told the Dayton Daily News in 2009 that he doesn't understand why the allegations continue to come up. "No matter what third party, objective review board or person, they've all come to the same conclusion — there's no probable cause," James said. "There's no detainee, there's no guard, there's no psychologist who's come forward and said, 'With my own eyes, I've seen Dr. James do X, Y or Z.'" James did not immediately return a message left Thursday, while university spokesman George Heddleston said Wright State was pleased with the decision. A Harvard lawyer said the complaint deserved a formal hearing. "Ohio residents presented the board with more than enough evidence to support the sanctioning of Larry James for violating his obligations as a psychologist by using his professional skills to harm others," said Deborah Popowski of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program. Last year, the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists in Louisiana, where James is also licensed, declined to act on a similar complaint against him. In 2008, the Ohio board in "determined that no foundation exists to support the initiation of formal proceedings serving to deny Dr. James admission to the Board's licensure examination," according to a copy of the board's response provided by the Harvard clinic. In June 2007, 350 members of the American Psychological Association signed an open letter to its then-President Sharon Brehm requesting an investigation of James and other members of the association who served at Guantanamo Bay. The association didn't investigate, but in 2008 it voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at Guantanamo and other military detention sites where it believes international law is being violated. In Texas, the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists has scheduled a hearing Tuesday to consider the case of Jim Mitchell, who former U.S. intelligence officers say was involved in waterboarding two suspected terror suspects in overseas prisons. In New York, a court has been asked to force an investigation into whether Army psychologist John Leso developed abusive interrogation techniques for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and should be stripped of his license. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:00 AM PST The University Bound Network proudly launches Psychology-School-Online.com, a one-of-a-kind website that aims to be the only unbiased resource for connecting prospective psychology students with the online school that is perfect for their needs. Using a non-advertorial approach, the new site offers refreshingly objective comparison tools that provide real information that is not weighted by advertising dollars. Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 02, 2011 A recent study has shown that over 45% of people are unhappy or dissatisfied with their careers. While most individuals will do nothing to change this because their schedules won't afford them the time to seek new qualifications, a record number of people are pursuing an education online. Knowing this, The University Bound Network has proudly launched five new education connection websites, including the all new Psychology-School-Online.com, a one-of-a-kind website that aims to be the only unbiased resource for connecting prospective psychology students with the online psychology school that is perfect for their needs. Because many of the websites that claim to pair students with an online psychology degree use an advertorial system that favors the for-profit online psychology universities, the newly launched Psychology-School-Online.com is honored to stand alone as the only source for real information in the field. Through the use of totally unbiased and objective side-by-side comparison shopping tools, Psychology-School-Online.com is unlike any other as it aims to educate students on what they should look for in an online psychology degree, how to navigate the pitfalls of accreditation and financial aid and ultimately how to choose the best online psychology school to meet their specific goals. Best of all, these results are not weighted by for-profit advertising dollars; rather, they are qualified results with the student's best interest in mind. If you've always been a cerebral person – considerate, thoughtful, and quick to offer a measured opinion, an online degree in psychology may be right for you. The newly launched Psychology-School-Online.com is the only honest and unbiased comparison shopping tool of its kind that will help you find the online psychology program that is best suited to your goals. The University Bound Network is dedicated to providing potential online students with the information that they need to make informed, responsible educational decisions. We believe in the transformative power of online education, and in its burgeoning role as an effective and far-reaching teaching medium. # # # Patrick Van Gorder This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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