Speaker to Focus on Positive Emotion and Stress During UA Talk

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A national expert in stress and coping will give a talk at noon on Friday, March 12, in Gordon Palmer Hall, room 208, on The University of Alabama campus.

Dr. Susan Folkman, professor in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, will present the annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture. The lecture, hosted by UA’s psychology department and its Center for Mental Health and Aging, is titled “Positive Emotion and the Stress Process.”

Folkman received her doctoral degree in educational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. She is the Bernard Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine and has been director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine since 2001.

Folkman serves on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public as well as on the National Advisory Committee for the Center for Research Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Morgan State University, Baltimore. She has published extensively in the areas of stress, coping, and bereavement and has received numerous grants for her research in these areas.

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.