Recent Awards & Honors

Bobby Cheon is awarded an APA Dissertation Research Award, the 2012 Salimetrics Distinguished Student Scholar Award, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues fellowship

Ming Hui receives a Graduate Research Grant from The Graduate School for his project, "Understanding the Development of Social Norms for Cooperation"

Dorianne Levy is a recipient of the Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award for the 2012 SPSP Conference

John Meixner receives a Graduate Research Grant from the University Research Grants Committee for his project, "Detecting real-life events with the concealed information test: a field-like application"

Stacey Parrot receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship

Dasha Zabelina receives a Graduate Research Grant for her project, "Creativity and Psychopathology: Attenuated Sensory Gating as a Shared Vulnerability Factor" and a Frank X. Barron award from Division 10 of the APA


2011-2012 Fellowship Winners in Psychology

Name: Brock Ferguson
Department (Area): Psychology (Cognitive)
Award: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Fellowship
Adviser: Sandy Waxman

Name: Christian Hoyos
Department (Area): Psychology (Cognitive)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Dedre Gentner

Name: Dorainne Levy
Department (Area): Psychology (Social)
Awards: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Adviser: Jennifer Richeson

Name: Annie Senior
Department (Area): Psychology (Cognitive)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: David Uttal

Name: Christina Young
Department (Area): Psychology (Clinical)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Robin Nusslock

Name: Iliana Vargas
Department (Area): Psychology (BBC)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Ken Paller

2010-2011 Awards and Honors in Psychology

Bobby Cheon is awarded the Philip Brickman Endowment Fellowship

Elaine Cheung receives the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Travel Award for the 2011 Conference

Keith Cox becomes a Walter Dill Scott Endowment Fellow

Brian Edwards wins the prize for the best poster at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology

John Meixner is elected Editor-In-Chief of the Northwestern University Law Review and receives a National Science Foundation Forensic Science Conference Stipend

Allen Rosenthal receives the WCAS/TGS Teaching Fellowship

Erica Slotter receives the Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for 2010-2011

Dasha Zabelina receives the APA Travel Award for 2011

 

2010-2011 Fellowship Winners in Psychology

Name: Kathleen Carswell
Department (Area): Psychology (Social)
Award: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Graduate Fellowship
Adviser: Eli Finkel

Name: Brian Edwards
Department (Area): Psychology (Cognitive)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Lance Rips

Name: Adam Safron
Department (Area): Psychology (Brain, Behavior, Cognition)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Michael Bailey

Name: Caitlin Duffy
Department (Area): Psychology (Social)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Honorable Mention
Adviser: Eli Finkel

Name: Priya Kamat
Department (Area): Psychology (Social)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Adviser: Wendi Gardner

Name: Stacey Parrot
Department (Area): Psychology (Cognitive)
Award: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
Honorable Mention
Adviser: Steve Franconeri

Name: Destiny Peery
Department (Area): Psychology (Social)
Award: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Honorable Mention
Adviser: Galen Bodenhausen

Name: Jennifer Sumner 
Department (Area): Psychology (Clinical)
Award: National Institutes of Health, National Research Service Award
Adviser: Susan Mineka

Name: Joshua Wilt 
Department (Area): Psychology (Clinical)
Award: National Institutes of Health, National Research Service Award
Adviser: Dan McAdams/William Revelle

2009-2010 Fellowship Winners in Psychology

Name: Daniel Sanchez
Area: Brain Behavior & Cognition
Award: APA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Diversity Program in Neuroscience (Year 2)
Adviser: Paul Reber

Name: Azurii Collier
Area: Brain Behavior & Cognition
Award: UNCF-Merk Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship
Adviser: Mark Beeman

Name: Lisa Hechtman
Area: Brain Behavior & Cognition
Award: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Joan Chiao

Name: Maureen Craig
Area: Social
Award: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Adviser: Jennifer Richeson

Name: Katie Rotella
Area: Social
Award: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable
Mention
Adviser: Jennifer Richeson

Name: Priya Kamat
Area: Social
Award: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable
Mention
Adviser: Wendi Gardner

Name: Caitlin Duffy
Area: Social
Award: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable
Mention
Adviser: Eli Finkel

Name: Destiny Peery
Area: Social
Award: American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
Adviser: Jennifer Richeson

Name: Chivon Powers
Area: Brain Behavior & Cognition
Award: Graduate Research Grant
Adviser: Mark Beeman

Name: Alison Lewis
Area: Clinical
Award: Graduate Research Grant
Adviser: Richard Zinbrag