Newsletter

January 2003

Nominations for SAFS Board of Directors 2003-2004

The Nominations Committee
consisted of Clive Seligman (President), Doreen Kimura (Past-President),
Ian Brodie (University of Western Ontario) and Philip Sullivan (University
of Toronto).

The seven nominated current
Directors are: Grant Brown, Tom Flanagan, Andrew Irvine, Steve Lupker,
Clive Seligman, Harvey Shulman, Peter Suedfeld. The additional
nominee is:

John Mueller is professor
of Psychology at the University of Calgary. He received his
PhD in Experimental Psychology from St. Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri)
in 1968. He spent 22 years at the University of Missouri (Columbia), and
moved to the University of Calgary in 1990. He has worked for over
30 years in the general area of human learning and has published over 100
articles in professional journals and more than a dozen book chapters.
He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American
Psychological Society. In addition to cognitive psychology, he has
taught various courses in educational computing at the University of Calgary.
He recently served as President of the Calgary Freenet Association.
He has taught History of Psychology, and this perspective fueled an interest
in freedom of inquiry. Presently this interest is focued on constraints
of inquiry by Research Ethics Boards, and by grant driven research agendas
more generally. He was the primary writer of SAFS’ response to the
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics.

Any member of SAFS
may nominate individuals for election as Director. These nominations
must be received at the SAFS Office by April 15, 2003. Each member
nomination shall contain the following information: (i) the signature
of the person nominating and the signatures of two (2) seconders; (ii)
the full name and address of the person nominated; (iii) a statement
of the status and attributes of the person nominated, showing each person’s
qualifications to be a director; (iv) a written consent signed by the person
nominated agreeing to be nominated for election and to serve, if elected.

For your information, Philip
Resnick had stepped down from the Board.