As the winner of the 2008 Raymond D. Fowler Award, Dr. Randolph Pipes will soon receive a handsome plaque and have his name listed in the fall issue of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students  (APAGS) magazine.

"The thing that I felt most flattered by and deeply honored by was not the award itself, but the fact that my students put the effort into nominating me,'' said Pipes, a 31-year member of the Auburn University faculty and professor in the College of Education's Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling/School Psychology.

Current students who are members of APAGS submit nominations for the award. Pipes said he was nominated by several current students, as well as graduates of the Counseling Psychology program. His award will be listed in the fall issue of gradPSYCH  , the APAGS magazine.

"It is clear that your protégés think very highly of you and APAGS applauds your efforts to support the professional development of future psychologists,'' Nadia Hasan, APAGS chair, and Renee Valdez, APAGS interim associate executive director and director of committee operations and programs, wrote in a joint letter to Pipes.

Dr. Raymond D. Fowler, the award's namesake, is a psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Alabama. He served as president of the American Psychological Association and as the APA's executive vice president and chief executive officer. Fowler, who built his professional reputation in the areas of personality assessment, substance abuse and criminal behavior, directed a court-ordered prison reform program in Alabama in 1976. That same year, he was also retained by the estate of Howard Hughes to determine the reclusive billionaire's mental state in various stages of his life.