UA Professor Honored By Southeastern Conference

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. John Lochman, Doddridge Saxon endowed chair in the clinical psychology department at The University of Alabama, is a winner of the 2013 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Awards.

Lochman will receive a $5,000 honorarium from the SEC and will be UA’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award. The SEC Professor of the Year receives an additional $15,000 honorarium and will be presented at the annual SEC awards dinner in Destin, Fla.

The annual awards recognize professors from the 14 SEC member universities who have meritorious records in teaching and scholarship and who serve as role models for other faculty and students.

“I am very honored to receive this prestigious award and would like to recognize all of the contributions from my colleagues and students who are such a critical part of my scholarly and teaching activity,” Lochman said.

“I appreciate the support of the University of Alabama administration, and especially of Dean Olin, Provost (Joe) Benson and President (Judy) Bonner in facilitating our line of student-involved research, and for supporting the Center for Prevention of Youth behavior Problems, which is the base for my work.

“Our federally-funded intervention research has led us to be able to provide evidence-based services to thousands of children in Alabama, throughout the United States and in foreign countries.”

Lochman, who is in his 15th year at UA, is also president of the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (Division 37 of the American Psychological Association) and director of UA’s Center for Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems.

To be eligible to receive the SEC Faculty Achievement Award, a professor must be a teacher or scholar at an SEC university; have achieved the rank of full professor at an SEC university; have a record of extraordinary teaching; and a record of scholarship that is recognized nationally and/or internationally.

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said, “I want to congratulate the 14 professors who have been selected to receive this honor. They have transformed their classrooms and enriched the learning experience for SEC students. We are truly proud of their accomplishments.”

Chosen by a selection committee of SEC Provosts, the SEC Faculty Achievement Awards and the SEC Professor of the Year Award are part of a set of non-athletically related activities the Southeastern Conference has undertaken through its SECU academic initiative to encourage academic leadership and collaboration within the SEC membership.

The department of psychology is part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.