Appleby Selected as Charter Fellow of Midwestern Psychological Association

Drew Appleby

Dr. Drew Appleby, a psychology professor in the School of Science at IUPUI, has been selected to be a Charter Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association, one of the largest psychological associations in the world.

This year, for the first time, the Midwestern Psychological Association recognized its most distinguished members by awarding them Fellow Status in the Association. Association members recently approved a bylaws change so that it could recognize individuals who have made significant and unusual contributions to the science of psychology and/or to the Midwestern Psychological Association.

“Our selection of Charter Fellows of the Midwestern Psychological Association was based on evidence of the member’s superior contribution to the field of psychology. In this initial selection, only about 100 of our members met this high standard,” said Janice R. Kelly
President, Midwestern Psychological Association.

Charter Fellows will be recognized immediately prior to the Presidential Address at the 2010 meeting of the Association, on April 30, 2010.

With more than 1500 members, the MPA is one of the largest psychological associations in the world. Members hold positions in universities, colleges, hospitals, clinics, school systems, business and industry, government and private practice. They teach, conduct research in laboratory, field, and industrial settings, do diagnosis, therapy, and counseling, and serve as administrators and consultants. Their interests are among the most diverse in any professional association: from the physiology of vision to social stereotyping, from political psychology to medical psychology, from organizational behavior to children's language development, from memory to depression, from sex roles to drug addiction.