Cornell Professor Stephen J. Ceci is the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.

Established in 1996 to honor Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell, the award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Chicago in August 2002. "This award is a tribute to Steve for his outstanding record of research and his commitment to having science benefit society. It is also gratifying that the intellectual contributions of Urie continue to be reflected in the work of our faculty and students," says John Eckenrode, chair of the Department of Human Development at Cornell.

Ceci holds the Helen L. Carr chair in developmental psychology at Cornell University. He studies the accuracy of children's courtroom testimony as well as the development of intelligence and memory. He is the author of about 300 articles, books and chapters, and has given hundreds of invited addresses around the world.

Ceci has received numerous honors, including a Senior Fulbright-Hayes fellowship, a National Institutes of Health Research Career Scientist Award, the IBM Supercomputing Prize, three Senior Mensa Foundation Research Prizes, and the Arthur Rickter Award. Recently, he was presented with the 2000 Distinguished Lifetime Contribution Award by the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.

Ceci serves on seven editorial boards and is a fellow of six different divisions of the APA, and of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the British Psychological Society and the American Psychological Society. His 1996 book On Intelligence: A Bio-Ecological Treatise(Harvard University Press) received wide critical acclaim, and his book (co-written with Maggie Bruck) Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony (1995) is an APA bestseller and winner of the 1999 William James Award for Excellence in Psychology. He is a member of the advisory board of the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. Ceci is past president of the Division of General Psychology and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society, whose journal, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, he founded and currently co-edits.

Ceci received his B.A. (1973) at the University of Delaware, his M.A. (1975) at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. (1978) at the University of Exeter, England.