Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the 2016 Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
“Roddy opened a door for me, and he has done the same thing for countless others,” said Andrew Butler, who studied human memory under Roediger as a Washington University doctoral student.
In an APS feature on Roediger’s mentor award, Butler recalled how Roediger once persuaded him to dress up in a gorilla suit and jump onstage during a keynote address at the APS annual convention. Now an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Texas-Austin, Butler credits Roediger with being the “biggest influence” on his development as a scientist.