2011-01-19

[DIV28SUPER] Participate in honoring Joe Brady and celebrating the Institutes for Behavior Resources 50th anniversary!

Dear Colleagues,

Many of you, like me, have a strong personal and professional appreciation for Joe Brady's myriad contributions toward making behavioral science central to public health and humanity.  Joe's pioneering work across many decades has made our field vibrant, pleasant, and a true inspiration.  His behavioral work has spanned a truly amazing and unrivaled scale: literally from inside the skin to outer space!  I consider Joe my "scientific grandfather" but he can rightly claim a great deal more scientific and scholarly paternity.
 
The Institutes for Behavior Resources (IBR), which Joe founded 50 years ago, has been an important catalyst in shaping our field.  A conference in celebration of IBR's 50th year anniversary will be held on May 2-3, 2011 at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, with a gala dinner on May 2nd honoring Joe.  We have all been invited to send letters recounting how Joe has contributed to our lives and careers, as well as our favorite Joe Brady anecdote, lesson or "law."  These letters will be brought together as a volume and presented to Joe at the gala dinner. The letters will also be shared with all who attend or who contribute to the publication.

If you would like to participate in these very special events, please visit the event Web site http://www.ibrinc.org/anniversary/ and contact the organizers listed at the end of this email.  
 
Finally, the organizers are still raising funds to support the conference and dinner; any net proceeds will be used to establish the Joseph V. Brady Behavioral Science Center at IBR.  Contributions of any size will be appreciated and acknowledged.  I will be sending my own favorite anecdote and also making a financial contribution.  I strongly encourage you to do the same.  This will be a very meaningful and memorable event for our friend and mentor, Joe Brady.

For more information about the IBR 50th Anniversary event, please contact Reid Blank, IBR Director for External Affairs, at: rblank@ibrinc.org <mailto:rblank@ibrinc.org> or (408) 247-0030 (in California).
 
Thank you so much for your consideration!

Best regards, Mark

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Mark Greenwald, PhD
President, Division 28
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