A Festschrift in Honor of
Alice F. Healy
College Professor of Distinction
June 7-8, 2014
Boulder, Colorado
Alice F. Healy
College Professor of Distinction
June 7-8, 2014
Boulder, Colorado
Professor Healy received her Ph.D. in psychology from The Rockefeller University in 1973. She was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University from 1973 to 1981. She joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1981 as Associate Professor, was promoted to Professor in 1984, and was named College Professor of Distinction in 2007.
During her career Dr. Healy has served as a member of the Basic Behavioral Processes Research Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health (1979-1981), as a member of the Governing Board (1987-1992) and Publications Committee (1989-1994) of the Psychonomic Society, and as a member of the Executive Committee (1989-1992 and 2001-2004) of Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She served as Chair of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1995-1996), as President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (1994-1995), as President of APA Division 3 (2004-2005), and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) (2008-2009). She also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1981-1984) and as Editor of Memory & Cognition (1986-1989). She is a fellow of the APA (1984, Divisions 1 and 3), the American Psychological Society (1989), the AAAS (1989), and the SEP (1997).
Dr. Healy has received grants or contracts from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the United States Army. In addition, she received a James McKeen Cattell Fund Sabbatical Award, faculty fellowships from Yale University and the University of Colorado, and a college scholar award from the University of Colorado. She is currently Principal Investigator of grants from NSF, NASA, and the American Literacy Council.
Dr. Healy has published 250 articles and chapters in professional journals and books and is a co-author of the textbook Cognitive Processes (2nd ed., 1986) and of the trade book Train Your Mind for Peak Performance: A Science-Based Approach for Achieving Your Goals (2014). Dr. Healy is also a co-editor of the two-volume series Essays in Honor of William K. Estes (1992), of Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills (1995), of Foreign Language Learning: Psycholinguistic Studies on Training and Retention (1995), of Training Cognition: Optimizing Efficiency, Durability, and Generalizability (2012), and of the Experimental Psychology volume of the Handbook of Psychology (2003 and 2013). She is also editor of the volume Experimental Cognitive Psychology and its Applications (2005).
Dr. Healy is currently the Director of the Center for Research on Training, which is affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado. Her research interests include memory and cognitive processes, especially training, long-term retention, reading, short-term memory, psycholinguistics, and political decision-making.