Outstanding Professors Receive $375,000 for Inspiring Their Students

Fifteen distinguished professors from universities around the
United States will each receive a $25,000 one-time cash award from
the Gail McKnight Beckman Trust for inspiring their students to
make a difference in their communities. The awards ceremony will
take place at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Saturday, January 7,
2012 at 6:00 p.m. The awards were created to benefit current or
former academic faculty members who have inspired their students to
create an organization which has demonstrably conferred a benefit
on the community at large, said Joyce Yamaato, Vice President of
Wells Fargo and Senior Trust and Fiduciary Specialist. The academic
faculty member must have inspired a student to establish, on a
lasting basis, a concept, procedure, or movement of comparable
benefit to the community at large. (A complete list of the award
recipients and their universities follows this press release.) The
trust was founded in 2008 under the will of Gail McKnight Beckman
in honor of her mother Dr. Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman. Dr. Beckman
was an educator, a renowned author and a pioneer in the field of
psychology. She was one of the first female psychology professors
at Columbia University and later taught at the University of
Pennsylvania. These outstanding faculty members have inspired their
former students to change the world. The trust recognizes the
benefits of what an extraordinary professor can produce, said Dr.
Carol Goodheart, Beckman Trust Committee Member and Past President
of the American Psychological Association. We learn how remarkably
professors have motivated their students, and see how students have
created a real-world success because of this inspiration.The
Advisory Committee comprised of Dr. Carol Goodheart, of the
American Psychological Association, Dr. Karen Tidmarsh of Bryn Mawr
College, Dr. Geraldine Downey of Columbia University and Joyce
Yamaato of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. The recipients must meet these
additional qualifications. Recipients must be current or former
professors or instructors at a college, university, junior college,
community college or technical school in America. Preference is
given to those who teach in the fields of psychology, medicine or
law. Since its inception in 2008, the Beckman Trust has awarded
$150,000 to six professors and/or faculty members. Anyone
(including the candidate) may nominate candidates for the award.
Each year the award committee prescreens the nominees for
qualification. The students of those nominees who are determined to
be eligible will then be invited to apply for the award through an
application process. The Trust is supported by the Wells Fargos
Philanthropic Services group. For more information, go online at
www.wellsfargo.com/privatefoundationgrants/beckman. Recipient Name
Current College or
University Etiony Aldarondo, Ph.D.
University of Miami Jessica Henderson Daniel
Harvard Medical
School Michelle Fine
City University of New York Howard S. Friedman
University of California,
Riverside Elizabeth Louise Glisky
University of Arizona Janet E. Helms, Ph.D.
Boston College
Marsha Marie Linehan
University of Washington Raymond P. Lorion, Ph.D.
Towson University Susan
McDaniel, Ph.D.
University of Rochester Layli Phillips Maparyan, Ph.D.
Georgia State University
Dr. Alice Anne Medalia
Columbia University Frances V. Mervyn, Ph.D.
Massachusetts School of
Professional Psychology Bonnie Ruth Strickland, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst Stanley Sue, Ph.D.
Palo Alto University Bruce Wampold
University of Wisconsin,
Madison