Student Awards

2021-2022 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

• Justin Grady, George Washington University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Project: “Conscientiousness Protects Visual Search Performance from the Impact of Fatigue.”
• Eva McAlister López, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
  Project: “How Do a Bilingual’s Two Languages Interact? Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Morphological Awareness in Spanish-English Bilinguals.”

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

• Tessa Charlesworth, Harvard University, Department of Psychology
  “Patterns of Long-Term Change in Implicit Social Cognition.”
• Lauren Clatch, University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology
  “Bargaining for Freedom: A Person-by-Situation Approach to Studying Plea-Bargain Decision-Making”.

2020-2021 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

• Analia Marzoratti, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  Project: “Increased exposure to environmental risk factors alters neural oscillatory activity during language learning in children.“
• Jiani Li, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology
  Project: “Neural Synchrony as a Signature for Similar Emotional Experience”
• Megan Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
  Project: “Evidence that Neighborhood Threat and Brain Volume Mediate the Relationship Between Neighborhood Poverty and Children’s Psychopathology”

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

• Katherine Lopez, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  “Cognitive, personality, and neural signatures of impulsivity in childhood suicide: An Adolescent, Brain, and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study“
• Colleen Frank, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
  “The Role of Working Memory for Emotion in Affective Forecasting”
• Martin De Vita, Syracuse University, Department of Psychology
  “The effects of cannabidiol and analgesic expectancies on experimental pain reactivity in healthy adults: A balanced placebo design trial”
• Celine Cammarata, Cornell University, Department of Human Development
  “The role of acetylcholine in flexible cognition across age and species”

2019-2020 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

• Carly Miron, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
  Project: “Longitudinal Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Friendship Quality among Adjudicated Adolescents“
• Yiwen Zhong, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
  Project: “The Effect of Anecdotes on Science Evidence Evaluation“

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

• Kaitlin Cassady, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
  “Age-related neural dedifferentiation in the sensorimotor system and its behavioral consequences“
• Jeremy Harper, University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology
  “The effect of alcohol use on brain networks of cognitive control and salience attribution in young adulthood: causal inferences from a cotwin control study“
• Stephanie Koebele, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology
  “Hysterectomy and Cognition: A Novel Preclinical Assessment of the Longitudinal Cognitive Effects Resulting from Gynecological Surgery in Adulthood“
• Jacob Westerberg, Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology
  “Bridging the Gap Between Cognitive Signals from Single Neurons to EEG“
• Nur Hani Zainal, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology
  “A Randomized Controlled Trial of a 14-Day Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention for Generalized Anxiety Disorder“
  

2018-2019 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

• Wesley Corey, Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  Project: “A Critical Evaluation of Terpenoid Signaling at Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors in a Neuronal Model”
• Samantha Goldberg, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology
  Project: “Hippocampal Activity in Extinction Recall Related to Stress Exposure”

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

• Charles Lynch, Georgetown University, Department of Psychology
  “Precision Mapping and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Cortical Hubs in Individuals”
• William E. Pelham, III, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology
  “Depression in Mothers and Behavior Problems in Children: From Association to Causation”
• Sophia Vinci-Booher, Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  “Brain Development from Sensorimotor Experiences: Handwriting and Letter Perception”
• Michelle Zaso, Syracuse University, Department of Psychology
  “Interplay of perceived friend environments with genetics on trajectories of alcohol use across adolescence”

2017-2018 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

• Xi “Richard” Chen, Cornell University College of Human Ecology, Department of Human Development
  Project: “Explaining Recollection Without Remembering“
• Justin Palmer, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology
  Project: “An Evaluation of the Cognitive Effects of a Short-Term and a Long-Term Ovarian Hormone Deprivation in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease: Addressing the Critical Window“

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

• Nick Jacobson, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology and Psychiatry
  “Differences in Neural Activation in Anxiety and Depressive Disorders: An fMRI Meta-Analysis“
• Alaina Pearce, PhD, Georgetown University, Department of Psychology
  “Neurocognitive Deficits in Pediatric Obesity“
• Joseph Vitriol, PhD, University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology
  “The (In)Egalitarian Self: On the Motivated Rejection of Alleged Implicit Racial Bias“