Simona Ghetti: 2009 Boyd McCandless Award

June 27, 2008

Simona Ghetti, has won the 2009 Boyd McCandless Award. This award is to a young scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to developmental psychology, conducted programmatic research of distinction, or made a distinguished contribution to dissemination of developmental science. The McCandless Award is the Early Career Award by Division 7 of APA – the Division on Developmental Psychology.

This is a major award – and it is wonderful to have a McCandless Award winner in our department. Many hearty congratulations to Simona for this award – and I am sure that your faculty colleagues are proud of your achievement.

Keith Widaman, Department Chairperson