Article archive / March 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 3. Source pages: 15.
Dr. Tracey Rizzuto is the Consortia Chair for the 31st annual conference of Society for Industrial and Organi- zational Psychology (SIOP), to be held in Anaheim, California this April.
Rizzuto is Associate Director in the School of Human Resource Education & Workforce Development at the College of Human Science & Education at Louisiana State University. She holds the Mary Ethel Baxter Lipscomb Memorial Endowed Professor of Human Resource, Leadership, & Organization Development. She is an industrial- organizational psychologist who focuses on social networks and large system change. Dr. Ruzzuto was previously with the LSU Psychology Department and led the IO program.
She explained to the Times that she is serving a three- year term as the SIOP Consortia Chair, and currently in the second year.
According to a February LSU press release, the consortia are preconference training opportunities designed for students in industrial- organizational psychology programs, and also for junior faculty. The development activities help students build relationships with others in the field and build knowledge, and the Junior Faculty helps new professors prepare for challenges in tenure and career decisions, explained the LSU press release.
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