Drew Appleby has devoted his professional life to helping students succeed. In his 30-year academic career, the professor of psychology at IUPUI has published or presented literally hundreds of papers on the scholarship of effective teaching and mentoring. In the process, he has become what many consider the very model of an effective teacher. Faculty colleagues and students alike call him an inspiration, citing his love of learning, his passion for psychology, his enthusiasm for teaching, and his generous caring for students.

"I see my role as a combination of teacher, advisor, and mentor," says Appleby, who is director of undergraduate studies in psychology. He combines these roles to help students understand what they must know, why they must know it, and how they can use their knowledge and skills to achieve their goals.

"In my classes, students learn not only psychology, but how to work as a member of a team, to think critically, to speak articulately, and to write persuasively," he says. Appleby enjoys teaching both psychology majors and nonmajors. "I believe that a knowledge of human behavior will help students to become better psychologists, better nurses, better accountants, and better people."

Appleby has received many awards for his teaching, advising, and mentoring, and the research he has performed on all three of these activities. He frequently gives keynote addresses at conferences on teaching and psychology, and he was recently chosen to give the G. Stanley Hall Teaching Lecture at the American Psychological Association.

His influence on the teaching of psychology also extends into Indiana high schools. Four years ago he created the Indiana High School Psychology Teachers' Association, which meets each spring on the IUPUI campus.