Welcome to the 2024 RMPA President Elect, Dr. Bryan Koenig from Southern Utah University!
Dr. Bryan Koenig is an associate professor in the Psychology Department at Southern Utah
University. Dr. Koenig is passionate about engaged learning and enjoys teaching about statistics,
research, and evolutionary psychology. His expertise is in social and evolutionary psychology, especially
as related to morality and social relationships, but to better serve his students he has recently switched
his focus to suicidality and mental health among college students. Dr. Koenig earned a Ph.D. in social
psychology with a minor in statistics from New Mexico State University, an M.A. in general/experimental
psychology from the College of William and Mary, and a B.A. in psychology with a minor in Latin from St.
John's University/College of St. Benedict. At SUU, he received an Early Career Award, Innovative
Pedagogy Award, and Distinguished Educator Award. Before coming to SUU, Dr. Koenig taught as an
adjunct for five years at Lindenwood University and Washington University in St. Louis. Before that, he
worked for three years as a research scientist in the Institute of High Performance Computing in
Singapore. Dr. Koenig has 32 peer-reviewed publications and has presented at many conferences. He
has served as a mentor on 34 student presentations that were accepted at RMPA (although a few were
cancelled because of COVID-19). Dr. Koenig believes that RMPA provides invaluable experiences for the
professional development of students.
Congratulations to the 2023 RMPA President-Elect:
Robert Wright, Ph.D., of Brigham Young University – Idaho
Biography: Dr. Robert R. Wright (Rob) received his PhD and Master’s degree in Social Psychology & Occupational Health Psychology from Portland State University after he received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Utah State University. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center at the Oregon Health & Science University, he managed health and safety intervention projects for home care workers and truck drivers. Rob currently works as a Professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-Idaho) in the Psychology Department where he teaches several courses (e.g., General Psychology, Health Psychology, Experiencing Research in Psychology), and oversees the Health Psychology emphasis. Rob has published in several journals including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Psychology & Health, and the Journal of Primary Prevention and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. His research interests include health behavior, health behavior change, impacts of technology on health, the stress and coping process, and he enjoys conducting mentored research with his undergraduate students.
RMPA is seeking nominations for EC members.
Program Committee Members
RMPA is looking for dedicated persons to serve on a newly forming program committee. More details on these positions will be found here when available. If you are interested in self nominating or if you have a peer you would like to nominate please email Bethany Fleck with specific contact information for that person: bfleck2@msudenver.edu
Membership Engagement Coordinator
RMPA is looking for a dedicated person to serve as a membership engagement coordinator. This person would be able to use technology to help build and maintain a member list, recruit members, and post on social media on behalf of the organization. More details on this position will be found here when available. If you are interested in self nominating or if you have a peer you would like to nominate please email Bethany Fleck with specific contact information for that person: bfleck2@msudenver.edu.
Diversity Council Members
Are you interested in becoming an integral part to diversity related programing for the upcoming RMPA Annual Meeting? If you are, please consider joining the Diversity Council. In this role, you could serve to generate ideas for diversity programing, ensuring a continued commitment to this ever important topic for RMPA. Please contact the Diversity Council Chair, Elizabeth List (elist@nnu.edu) for information about how you can become involved.
Duties of Officers
The President presides at all Association and Executive Committee meetings, submit nominations for Chairpersons of standing committees are an ex-officio member of all committees, are responsible for the selection of the RMPA Distinguished Lecturer forthe AnnualConvention, is invited to deliver an address at the AnnualConvention and appoints ad hoc committees as needed with the advice and consent of the ExecutiveCommittee.
The President-Elect assumes the duties of the President in the President's absence.
The Secretary records the proceedings of the meetings of the Association and of theExecutive Committee, notifies officers and chairpersons of their election or appointment, furnishes committees with material referred to them, keeps a copy of the By-Laws and standing rules and records amendments. If the presiding officer desires, the secretary prepares for the presiding officer an outline of business, calls the meeting to order in the absence of the President and President-Elect and presides over the election of a temporary presiding officer. The Secretary also conducts the general correspondence of the organization as directed by the President, produces and mails the newsletter to members and maintain the Association’s WWWsite.
The Treasurer collects all dues and cares for the association's funds, keeps an accurate record of receipts and payments, pays mandatory bills promptly, submits a financial report at each Executive Committee meeting, submits a financial report at each annual meeting and keeps a current membership list.
The Archivist preserves all official records of the Association not in active use by the Executive Committee, preserves such other materials pertinent to the Association as may facilitate an understanding of its history, updates the history of the Association annually and submits this information for the newsletter, maintains liaison with the Archives of American Psychology (Akron, Ohio) and lists there such material held by the Association of interest to the history of American psychology, and engages in such other activities as might be appropriate to discharging the functions of Archivist of RMPA as required by the Executive Committee.
The Convention Coordinator reserves and negotiates contracts for future convention sites with the approval of the Executive Committee, oversees that the provisions of convention contracts are followed, and engage in such other activities as might be appropriate to discharging the functions of the Convention Coordinator of RMPA as required by theExecutive Committee.
The Teaching Conference Coordinator, in conjunction with the Program Director, puts together the teaching conference program including a keynote speaker, and conducts a meeting of interested members during the annual convention to solicit ideas for future teaching programming atRMPA.