Rubin receives APA’s “Meritorious Research Service” award
NEW HAVEN — Philip Rubin, Ph.D., of Fairfield, Connecticut, Chief Executive Officer and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories and adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, at the Yale University School of Medicine, has received the American Psychological Association’s “Meritorious Research Service Commendation” at an awards ceremony on November 13, 2010 at APA’s Science Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
This award recognizes outstanding psychologists who help foster the discipline of psychological science through their programmatic activities as staff of the federal government or other organizations. The citation for Rubin’s award reads:
“In recognition of your outstanding contributions to psychological science through your service as a leader in research management and policy development at the national level.”
Other recipients included W. Rodney Hammond, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Dr. C. Tracy Orleans, a senior scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Nancy M. Ostrove, Ph.D., Director of the Risk Communication Staff in the Office of Planning at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Rubin, a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Connecticut, is also a research affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, and a fellow of Yale’s Trumbull College. His scientific research spans a number of disciplines, combining computational, engineering, linguistic, physiological and psychological approaches to study embodied cognition, most particularly the biological bases of speech and language. He is best known for his work on articulatory synthesis (computational modeling of the physiology and acoustics of speech production), sinewave synthesis, signal processing and perceptual organization. Rubin is also the Chair of the National Academies / National Research Council Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.
From 2000-2003, Rubin was Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. He also served as the chair of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Science, Human Subjects Research Subcommittee under the auspices of the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Psychonomic Society and Sigma Xi, and a member of a number of other professional societies.
Haskins Laboratories was founded in 1935 by the late Dr. Caryl P. Haskins. This independent research institute has been in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970 when it formalized affiliations with Yale University and the University of Connecticut. The Laboratories’ primary research focus is on the science of the spoken and written word.
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