UA Psychology Department To Host First Annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.– The University of Alabama psychology department will host the first annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture on Friday, Nov. 17, featuring guest speaker Dr. Lewis R. Goldberg.

The public lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall on the UA campus. Goldberg’s lecture is titled “Personality Structure and Measurement: A Contemporary Review of the Big-Five Model and Its Alternatives.” Goldberg is professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Oregon and senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute.

Goldberg received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1958 and has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and at Istanbul University in Turkey. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He served as a selection officer for the U.S. Peace Corps, as a consultant to the Intelligence Division of the U.S. Secret Service, and as a consultant to the Research Committee on the Graduate Record Examination. Recently, Goldberg served as chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Honesty and Integrity Testing.

The Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the UA department of psychology in memory of Basowitz, who came to UA in 1940 and remained until called into military service. Basowitz returned to Tuscaloosa in 1946 and received his undergraduate degree from UA in 1947.