Wang to receive Early Career Investigator Award

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dr. Mo Wang, an Associate Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Human Resource Research Center at the Warrington College of Business Administration, will receive the FABBS (Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences) Early Career Investigator Award at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Inc. Annual Conference this weekend in Houston.

The Early Career Investigator Award recognizes “scientists who have made major research contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior” and are in their first 10 years of post-Ph.D. research.

Dr. Wang’s far-reaching research in the areas of retirement and older work employment, occupational health psychology, cross-cultural human resources management, leadership and advanced quantitative methodologies has made significant impacts. He has had 50 refereed articles published as well as five books, including his latest work “Mid and Late Career Issues: An Integrative Perspective,” which debuted in September 2012. He has made more than 80 research presentations throughout the United States and the world.

Dr. Wang has been honored with other early career achievement awards as well. He was awarded the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of applied research, the 2012 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, the 2011 Early Career Achievement Awards from the Academy of Management in the Human Resources and Research Methods Divisions and the 2009 Early Career Achievement Award for Occupational Health Psychology co-sponsored by the APA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology.

Dr. Wang, who serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, has served as an Associate Professor at Warrington since August 2011. He earned a B.S. from Peking University in Beijing in 2001, a M.A. from Bowling Green State University in 2003 and a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 2005.