Honors and Awards

Daniel Buchman at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada was recently awarded the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). It is a 3-
year scholarship to support his doctoral studies in the area of Addiction Neuroethics.

The Association for Psychological Science 

Congratulations to Martha Farah for winning the 2009 William James Fellows Award for her lifetime of contributions to psychology.

Bruce Maxwell received the $10,000 SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize for his research on the psychology behind ethical judgement and moral choices. With ethics training having become mandatory in research disciplines from medicine to business and law, Maxwell, a philosopher of science, is collaborating with colleagues in psychology to take a closer look at the moral psychology and ethical education of children and how these relate to parenting and family policy. He is part of a group of researchers linked to the Centre de recherche en ethique de l'Universite de Montreal and the neuroethics unit of the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal.

Recently elected to the Institute of Medicine is Susan M. Wolf, J.D.,McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine, and Public Policy; Faegre and Benson Professor of Law; professor of law and medicine; and chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, Schools of Law and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis