Carlo C. DiClemente Named First Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

May 30, 2007
To: The UMBC Community
Fr: John W. Jeffries, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Re: Carlo C. DiClemente Named First Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
I am pleased to announce that Carlo C. DiClemente, Professor of Psychology, has been named the first Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. This 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 the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.” Professor DiClemente will hold this position in Academic Year 2007-08.
It is particularly fitting that Professor DiClemente will serve as the first Lipitz Professor. He 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.
Professor DiClemente has recently established the Psychology Community Collaborative project at UMBC, funded by the AIDS Administration. He will focus his efforts next year on developing an instrument to assess the functioning of HIV-positive individuals. He will report on his research next spring, when he delivers the first annual Lipitz Lecture.
I know that everyone will join me in congratulating Professor DiClemente on his extraordinary record of accomplishment and on being named the first Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.