The purpose of the FABBS Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards is to acknowledge and honor undergraduate student investigators who have conducted research of superior quality and with broader societal impact. The opportunity to nominate students for these awards is offered to our Departmental and Division Affiliates.

Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards

2020-2021 Awardees

• Analia Marzoratti, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  “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
  “Neural Synchrony as a Signature for Similar Emotional Experience”

2019-2020 Awardees

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

 

2018-2019 Awardees

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

2017-2018 Awardees

• Xi “Richard” Chen, Cornell University College of Human Ecology, Department of Human Development
  “Explaining Recollection Without Remembering“
• Justin Palmer, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology
  “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“