Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring
The Jacob Cohen Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring, sponsored by the Taylor and Francis Group in memory of Jacob Cohen, PhD, recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring within the field of quantitative research methods.
Award recipients attending the APA convention will receive the following:
- A cash award of $500 to help offset travel expenses to the subsequent convention.
All award recipients will also receive:
- An honorary one-year membership to Division 5.
- An awards plaque and a place in history.
The deadline for this award is the second Monday of December.
Questions about the awards, nominations, and review process can be addressed to Jessica McKenzie. The outcome of the review process will be announced each year in March.
Neither the nominator nor nominee need be a current or former member of either the APA or Division 5. Both self-nominations and nominations of others will be considered.
Nominees must be willing to participate in the process of selecting winners for their awards in the following year.
Nomination materials should include:
- A nomination letter and two other letters of support that describe distinguished teaching and mentoring through teaching evaluations, awards or testimonials, the nominee’s impact on student career trajectories and the nominee’s impact via public dissemination, such as workshops, conference presentations, books, web sites or involvement in public media.
- The nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
- Please send all requested nomination materials to Jessica McKenzie by the second Monday in December. In your email, please use the subject line “APA Division 5 Award Nomination”. In addition, please ask for confirmation that your materials have been received. If you do not receive a confirmation, please follow up to make sure that your materials have been received.
2025
David Budescu
2024
Zhiyong (Johnny) Zhang
2023
Viji Sathy
2022
No award
2021
David P. MacKinnon
2020
No award
2019
Richard Gonzalez
2018
Daniel Bauer
2017
Scott E. Maxwell
2016
Patrick J. Curran
2015
John McArdle
2014
Bruce Thompson
2013
Todd D. Little
2012
Charles M. Judd & Gary H. McClelland
2011
Gregory R. Hancock
2010
Ronald K. Hambleton
2009
Lawrence J. Hubert
2008
Kurt F. Geisinger
2007
Hariharan Swaminathan
2006
Stephen G. West
2005
Roger Kirk
2004
Liora Schmelkin
2003
L.L. Harlow & A.T. Panter
2002
Barbara M. Byrne
2001
Leona S. Aiken