Voting for 2012 SCP president is now closed and results will be announced shortly.

The publications committee of the Society for Consumer Psychology is pleased to announce that Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann will be the new editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Connie will start processing new manuscripts on January 1, 2012. C.W. Park, who has served as editor since 2008, will continue processing revisions through June 30, 2012. After that date Connie will process all manuscripts. SCP wants to thank C.W. for his dedication and excellent service to JCP.

The Society of Consumer Psychology (SCP) is thrilled to announce that C. W. Park has been named an SCP Fellow, which is SCP's highest honor. The SCP Fellowship is awarded to recognize an SCP member's unusual and outstanding contribution to or performance in the field of consumer psychology. We will make a public announcement of this award at the upcoming SCP conference in Las Vegas, February 16-18, 2012, where C.W. will make a Fellow's address.

C.W. Park is the Joseph A. DeBell Professor of Marketing at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC, Professor Park was the Albert Wesley Frey Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh (1979-1997). He holds a B.A. degree in German language and literature from Seoul National University in Korea, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois.

C.W. has been awarded this honor both for his active service to SCP and for his contributions as a scholar to the field of consumer psychology. C.W. Park has been an active member of SCP for many years, and has served as the Editor of our leading journal, the Journal of Consumer Psychology since 2008. He has published numerous articles in our field's leading journals and has made important contributions to our understanding of individual and dyadic decision-making and choice, information processing, marketing communications, social influence, branding, and attachment.

Please join me in congratulating C.W. for this well-deserved honor. Please also join me in thanking SCP's fellow committee; Richard Lutz (chair), Joe Alba, and Frank Kardes.

Vicki Morwitz
President, SCP

SCP is pleased to announce the implementation of a Small Grants Program that will provide funding for initiatives that further the goals and vision of SCP.

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The Society for Consumer Psychology is pleased to announce the election of Professor Michel Tuan Pham of Columbia University as President-Elect of the Society as of February 24, 2011. In this capacity, he will serve a three-year term in the executive leadership of the Society: one year as President-Elect, one year as standing President, and one year as Immediate Past President. Michel Tuan Pham is the Kravis Professor of Business in Marketing at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of Florida, Gainesville.

SCP members will get a 30% discount when ordering Leveraging Consumer Psychology for Effective Health Communications: The Obesity Challenge, edited by Rajeev Batra, Punam Anand Keller, and Victor J. Strecher.