Editorial note: APA Distinguished Early Career Award to Mark Blumberg
✍ Scribed by Scott R. Robinson
- Book ID
- 101265893
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 31 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-1630
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✦ Synopsis
was one of five recipients of a Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1997 by the American Psychological Association. Early Career Awards were first presented by the APA in 1974, and are rotated among ten different areas of psychology in 2-year cycles. Mark received the award in recognition of his contribution to the general field of animal learning, behavior, and comparative psychology. Over the past 20 years, a number of recipients of this award have represented areas of research of general interest to Developmental Psychobiology, including David Crews (1979), Harvey Grill (1981), Martha McClintock (1982), Michael Fanselow (1985), Marc Breedlove (1987), and Kent Berridge (1991). In the official citation of Mark's research, the awards committee commented that "by examining the physical stimuli and physiological mechanisms that elicit and modulate the ultrasonic distress call of infant rats, he has shown that functional analyses of this behavior alone cannot explain its developmental and evolutionary origins" (Amer. Psychol., 53, 381, 1998). In addition to the award citation, recipients are invited to present an address at the 1998 APA convention.
Mark received his AB degree cum laude from Brandeis University in 1983, where he majored in physics and philosophy. He then switched fields to pursue graduate studies in biopsychology at the University of Chicago, where he worked with Howard Moltz and also received helpful mentoring from other faculty, notably including Martha McClintock. Mark completed his dissertation on the relationships between reproductive behavior and thermoregulation in adult rats in 1988, and proceeded on to a postdoctoral position with Jeffrey Alberts at Indiana University. His 4 years