Student Awards

The FABBS Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards and Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards honor student investigators who have conducted research of superior quality and with broader societal impact.

The nomination period for the FABBS Student Awards ends March 28, 2025.

Departmental affiliates can nominate undergraduates and nominate doctoral dissertations for FABBS awards

2023-2024 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Award

Florencia Ontiveros

The Ohio State University

Project

Differences in the Relationship Between Structural Connectivity and Functional Activation Following Pediatric TBI

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award

Kayley D. Estes

University of California, Irvine

Dissertation

Media Coverage of Collective Traumas: Implications for Cognition, Affect, and Behaviors

2022-2023 Awardees

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award

Fareshte Erani

 Drexel University

Dissertation

Testing an Effort-Reward Imbalance Framework for Cognitive Fatigue in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.”

Undergraduate Research Excellence Award

Lily Reck

George Washington University

Project

Experienced Emotion: Positive Valence Acquisition of Stimuli Associated with High Cognitive Effort

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award

Alex Silver

University of Pittsburgh

Dissertation

Social and Linguistic Influences on Number Word Acquisition.

2021-2022 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

2020-2021 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

2019-2020 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

2018-2019 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards

2017-2018 Awardees

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards