{"id":65930,"date":"2007-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/r-i-psychological-association-honors-professor-emeritus-al-lott\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"r-i-psychological-association-honors-professor-emeritus-al-lott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/r-i-psychological-association-honors-professor-emeritus-al-lott\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I. Psychological Association honors Professor Emeritus Al Lott"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.–October 24, 2007–Psychologist Albert J. Lott, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Emeritus, has been ardent educator and an advocate for social justice for the more than a half century.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Rhode Island Psychological Association recognized those extraordinary efforts by presenting the Kingston resident the association\u2019s Musiker-Merenda Award for \u201cSignificant Contributions to Mental Health,\u201d during an award ceremony and breakfast today. Representative Steven M. Costantino, chairman, House Committee on Finance, will also receive the Musiker-Merenda Award for his contributions. <\/p>\n


\n\tLott is cited for his dedicated service to the psychology profession, which has included research, teaching, academic leadership, mentoring, and a tireless commitment to social justice.

\n\tHe joined 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1969 and became a pioneer in women\u2019s and men\u2019s studies.<\/p>\n


\n\tSince \u201cretirement,\u201d Lott has been working extensively with lawyers and veterans at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in Washington, D.C. to repeal the \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy. His efforts include writing opinion pieces and lobbying Congressional members. He has also worked with Marriage Equality RI, by testifying before legislative committees considering same-sex marriage laws. In both cases, he has used social psychological literature to buttress his argument.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAl remains one of the most popular and beloved professors and mentors to have taught at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d says his colleague Kat Quina, professor of psychology His Men and Masculinity course is still taught today. A Fellow of APA Divisions 8 and 9, he is a prolific scholar, publishing extensively in the area of social psychology and prejudice and discrimination. His many roles included chairing the Psychology Department, presiding over the Faculty Senate, sponsoring an Honors Colloquium, and serving as faculty advisor for a group of students studying lesbian, gay and bisexual issues.<\/p>\n


\n\t James O. Prochaska, director of the Cancer Prevention Research Center and professor of clinical and health psychology at 溏心vlog免费B站 who is internationally recognized for his behavior change stage model was the featured speaker. <\/p>\n


\n\tRIPA also presented its \u201cPsychologically Healthy Workplace Awards\u201d to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and West View Health Care Center and its \u201cBest Practice Awards\u201d to CVS Caremark and the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. <\/p>\n


\n\tFor more information about the organization click onto http:\/\/www.ripsych.org\/. 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.–October 24, 2007–Psychologist Albert J. Lott, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Emeritus, has been ardent educator and an advocate for social justice for the more than a half century. The Rhode Island Psychological Association recognized those extraordinary efforts by presenting the Kingston resident the association\u2019s Musiker-Merenda Award for \u201cSignificant Contributions to Mental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}