“Ebola, Goals and Fire, Oh My”: Three Great Reasons to Go to the 2015 American Psychological Association Convention Ann Huffman Division 14 APA Program Chair What do the Ebola outbreak, primed goals, and fire departments all have in common? These are the topics of the invited speakers at Division 14’s program at the American Psychological Association Convention in Toronto this August! The APA conference committee is very excited about our sessions and the rest of the APA program line up. The invited speaker on Thursday is Toronto’s Fire Chief Jim Sales from the fifth largest fire department in North America. He will discuss issues the fire service faces including recruitment, leadership, and human resource management. He will pose the challenge: How can psychology help? On Friday, the invited speaker is our own Dr. Gary Latham. Dr. Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HR Management at University of Toronto. His presentation will examine the enduring effect of a primed goal on organizational behavior, replication experiments, and their congruence with Bargh’s automaticity model and Locke and Latham’s goal setting theory. For Saturday’s invited address, Dr. Amy Adler will discuss Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s support to units deploying in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and will share results concerning the mental health and resilience of deploying troops. In her talk, she will discuss some of the work stressors related to soldiers who The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist are deployed in response to the Ebola outbreak. The talk will provide lessons learned in conducting rapid response research on behalf of a large organization and also demonstrate findings regarding the mental health and resilience of troops deployed in support of humanitarian emergencies. But the fun does not stop there! Division 14 has 16 other talks and two poster sessions that focus on workplace and organizational issues. The paper sessions range in topics from ethical issues in the workplace, leadership, work–family issues, cross-cultural issues, and mindfulness. There is a diverse offering of topics with a focus on research, application, and teaching. Some examples of symposia and panels are Award Winning Faculty: Applications for Teaching Applied Psychology and Management; Work Trends in the Military: Making Tomorrow’s Research Agenda Today; and Environmental Sustainability at Work: Understanding Workplace Behavior and Motivations. I should note that this impressive line up would not be possible without the amazing APA Div. 14 committee and reviewers. Thanks to them and last year’s committee chair, Dr. Autumn Krauss, for all the help that they provided in developing our program. Last and definitely not least, Division 14 has organized a social that is not to be 137 missed! With the help of Dr. Ron Myhr, vice president of Professional Services for the Canadian operation of CEB’s SHL Talent Management Solutions, we have put together an incredible Division 14 social. The social will take place at the Steam Whistle Brewery (right next to the conference center) Thursday night at 6:30 pm. The Brewery is located in a 1929 historical building at the old Canadian Pacific Rail steam locomotive repair facility that helped pioneer the nation. We hope that Division 14 colleagues, friends, and future friends will find this the perfect location to see old friends, meet new friends, and talk anything (or nothing) I-O! This social hour is sponsored by SIOP, CEB’s SHL Talent Management Solutions and MHS Talent Assessment Solutions. We look forward to networking and developing future relationships at the Steam Whistle Brewery 138 I want to close this update with a reminder of why I appreciate APA, a conference with a very different focus than our traditional SIOP. I really appreciate APA because of the interdisciplinary nature of the conference. I am a work–family researcher, with interests in environmental sustainability, diversity, and military research. APA is a “one-stop shop.” I can attend relevant talks in many different divisions that help broaden the way I think about I-O issues. Getting different perspectives outside of the typical I-O focus can be refreshing and is really helpful for generating new and creative ideas, both for my research as well as in the classroom. APA is August 6–9 at the Toronto Conference Center. Registration for APA begins April 15th. You can learn more about the conference, registration, and lodging at the conference website (http://www.apa. org/convention/). Hope to see you there! April 2015, Volume 52, Number 4