A WOMAN PROFESSOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 14

A WOMAN PROFESSOR.

DR. JENNIE BENSON WYMAN. EX-AUCKLANDER'S DISTINCTION. Word has been received of the appointment of Mrs. Jennie Benson Wyman, 8., A., M.Sc. (University of New Zealand), A.M., Ph.D. (Stanford University) as Professor of Psychology and Education at tho University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dr. Wyman left New Zealand sis years ago and since completing -her post-graduate work at Stanford has been directing- the research' work under Dr. Bird T. Baldwin at the Child Welfare Research Station at the State University of lowa. Among the studies recently published by Dr. Wyman is " Interest Tests of a Group of Gifted Children," which appears in Dr. L. M. Xerman's "Genetic Studies, of Genius." Dr. Wyman recently returned to lowa City from an extended tour in the United States and Canada. She attended the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association at Cornell University, where she was one of the ten speakers at the Round Table Conference on character and social development. She later visited the psychological laboratories at the Johns Hopkins University, at Harvard and at McGill University, besides visiting the University of British Columbia at Vancouver and revisiting Stanford University in California. Last month Dr. Wyman gave one of the three papers at the National Vocational Guidance Association meeting in Washington, In asking her to present this paper the chairman wrote: It seems to me you have made one of the few original contributions to measurement which have been mado in the last few years." Dr. Wyman plans to leave lowa for Vancouver at the end of June and expects to arrive in New Zealand on a vacation early in 1927. Dr. Wyman is a daughter of the late Mr, Wm. J. Moore, of Dunedin, and was formerly on the staff of the Napier Girls' High School and the Aucklauu Girls' Grammar School.