{"id":4075,"date":"2012-09-24T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:34:12","slug":"dahlstromfellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=4075","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doing Great Things in a Quiet Way\u2019: Graduate student fellowship honors psychology professor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grant Dahlstrom with Donald Baucom’s wife, Linda, and 3-year-old son, Brian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a distinguished 40-year career at UNC, W. Grant Dahlstrom, Kenan Professor of Psychology, did great things in a quiet way. A graduate fellowship honoring Dahlstrom is now providing support for a clinical psychology<\/a> student.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrant\u2019s slogan could have been just that: \u2018doing great things in a quiet way,\u2019\u201d said Donald Baucom<\/a>, Richard Lee Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology, who delivered a eulogy for Dahlstrom after his death in 2006.<\/p>\n

Known as the leading authority on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) <\/a>\u2014 still considered the \u201cindustry standard\u201d in personality tests \u2014 Dahlstrom was a scientist of the highest order. But his humble demeanor and his sincere interest in his students belied his greatness as a scholar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met him when I was a college freshman in 1967 and I was looking for a work study job,\u201d Baucom said. \u201cGrant mentioned that he and his wife and a colleague, George Welsh, were working on a book, and if I was interested, he\u2019d be honored to have me work with him. He\u2019d be honored for me<\/em>, a freshman from a small town in North Carolina to work with him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dahlstrom later served as chair of Baucom\u2019s doctoral dissertation committee. The two became colleagues when Baucom returned to UNC to join the faculty in 1980. Baucom and his family spent many evenings with Dahlstrom and his wife Leona, who assisted Dahlstrom in his work as he suffered from a severe visual impairment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time he retired, I believe he had supervised more doctoral dissertations than anyone else in the department,\u201d Baucom said.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Daniels is a leading contributor to the Dahlstrom Graduate Student Fellowship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of Dahlstrom\u2019s more than 60 doctoral dissertation supervisees was Lucy Daniels, a clinical psychologist in Raleigh and founder of the Lucy Daniels Center<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children live emotionally healthy lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe presented things in an interesting way, with a quiet manner that made you want to listen,\u201d Daniels recalled. \u201cHe had a great reputation as a scholar and was academically rigorous and demanding, but he was also very interested in his students as people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels, a leading contributor to the Dahlstrom Graduate Fellowship, completed her doctorate when she was in her 40s and the mother of four.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that graduate students have lives outside the classroom and the research lab,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cI hope that this fellowship will provide students with the funding they need to achieve their academic goals while still being able to support themselves and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

With more than 200 former students, colleagues and friends contributing to the fund, the Dahlstrom Graduate Fellowship\u2019s market value was more than $327,000 as of June 30, with an estimated annual payout of nearly $19,000.<\/p>\n

Mitch Prinstein,<\/a> Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor and director of clinical psychology, said the Dahlstrom Graduate Fellowship will help the department attract outstanding students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very difficult to offer financial packages to students that allow us to remain competitive,\u201d Prinstein said.\u00a0\u201cThe Dahlstrom fund allows us to make a generous offer to a highly promising student to work exclusively on their research without needing to split their efforts on other tasks like a teaching assistantship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dahlstrom Fellowship was awarded for the first time this fall to Christopher Sheppard, a first-year clinical psychology graduate student who will work with Prinstein.\u00a0Before coming to UNC, Sheppard was a study coordinator in the child and adolescent mood program at Emory University. He earned his undergraduate degree with distinction in psychology from Duke University in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I learned from Grant is that if you want to be both happy and successful, surround yourself with good people,\u201d Baucom said. \u201cAnd he did that. He had excellent colleagues and students flock to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the new fellowship will attract even more good people to UNC to honor Dahlstrom\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department of psychology is still raising money for the Dahlstrom Fellowship, with the goal of reaching $500,000, the new minimum endowment amount for a graduate student fellowship. At this level, the fellowship would provide an annual stipend of about $25,000, which is competitive with peer institutions. Anyone interested in contributing may contact Kelleigh Smith, associate director of capital gifts at the Arts and Sciences Foundation, kelleigh.smith@unc.edu <\/a>or (919) 843-4454.<\/em><\/p>\n

[ By Jim Magaw ’89, fall 2012 Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine ]<\/p>\n

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