The Social Sciences Forum presents UMBC's first Liptiz Lecture on Monday, April 28, at 4 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor. Carlo DiClemente, Lipitz professor of the arts, humanities and social sciences and professor of psychology, will discuss "Making a Difference? Evaluating the Complicated Process of Behavior Change." A question and answer period and reception will follow.
The Liptiz professorship is supported by an endowment created by Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation “to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at UMBC."
DiClemente is a world-renowned scholar of addictive behavior, with more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly outlets and with millions of dollars in funded research. His research is distinguished not only for its scholarly rigor and significance but also for its practical applications to the field of substance abuse and health behavior change. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has been honored by numerous other organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Vanguard Foundation and the Maryland Psychological Association. In 2006, he won the Community Partner Award from Healthcare for the Homeless and the John P. McGovern Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He has served as consultant and reviewer for a wide array of organizations and has been an invited lecturer to numerous professional and public organizations in the United States, Canada and Europe.
In addition to his scholarly eminence, he is an excellent teacher and mentor, served with distinction as chair of the Department of Psychology from 1995 to 2006, and has taken on an important variety of service activities for the department, the University and the profession. DiClemente also established the Psychology Community Collaborative project at UMBC, funded by the AIDS Administration. He is developing an instrument to assess the functioning of HIV-positive individuals.
