Top Virginia professor is from R-MC

Kelly Lambert, professor of psychology at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, yesterday was named the 2008 Virginia Professor of the Year.

Lambert received the award in Washington from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

She was among winners from 44 states, the District of Columbia and Guam. The two organizations have given the awards since 1981.

Lambert, who joined the Randolph-Macon faculty in 1989, is chairwoman of the department of psychology and co-director of the Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.

She recently was awarded a $640,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the paternal brain circuit in a mouse model. In 2009, she will begin a two-year term as president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society.

Her latest book is "Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-On Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power." -- Karin Kapsidelis