Keynote Speaker

Jane S. Halonen has been Professor of Psychology at University of West Florida, James Madison University, and Alverno College. Her scholarly contributions have focused on helping psychology students, faculty, and departments achieve optimal performance. Jane has been involved over the course of her career with helping the American Psychological Association develop guidelines or standards for academic performance from high school through graduate levels of education. Jane served as the Chief Reader for the Psychology Advanced Placement Reading from 2004-2009. The Society for Teaching of Psychology, which she presided over in 2000, named their Early Career Award to honor her mentoring of generations of new faculty. She won the American Psychological Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000. In 2003, the American Psychological Association named her an “Eminent Woman in Psychology.” In 2013 she won the APF Award for Applications in Education and Training in Psychology.