APF and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology have presented 16 scholarships to support graduate student research. The awards are administered by APA's Science Directorate.
The top winners, all doctoral students, are:
- Samantha L. Connolly of Temple University won the $5,000 Charles and Carol Spielberger Scholarship for her project on "Interplay between Stress and Rumination in Predicting Depression: An EMA Study."
- Konstantinos Papazoglou of the University of Toronto won the $5,000 Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship for her project "To Maintain Peace and Safety: How Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction Impact Police Performance."
- Ashley M. Shaw of the University of Miami won the $5,000 William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship for her project "Negative and Positive Emotional Reactions in Hoarding."
- Lauren L. Long of the University of Connecticut won the $3,000 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship for her project "What Determines the Strength of Memory Representations? Investigations into Hippocampal Neurophysiology During Exposure to Novel Situations."
- Allison H. Kalpakci of the University of Houston won the $2,000 Clarence J. Rosencrans Scholarship for her project "An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Affective Reactivity within an Interpersonal Context with Borderline Personality Disorders."
- Joanna Korman of Brown University won the $1,000 William C. Howell Scholarship for her project "Theory of Mind in Real Time: Conflict Detection as a Trigger for Social Inference."
- Elizabeth A. Nick of Vanderbilt University won the $1,000 Peter and Malina James and Dr. Louis P. James Legacy Scholarship for her project "The Effect of Positive Online Relations on Developmental Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents."
- Luis A. Parra of the University of California, Davis, won the $1,000 Dr. Judy Kuriansky Scholarship for his project "Minority Stress: Neurobiological Markers of Psychosocial Adjustment in Ethnic and Sexual Minority Youth."
The following students earned $1,000 graduate research scholarships:
- Vanessa M. Brown of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for "A Learning Retraining Task to Target Value-based Learning Abnormalities in Depression."
- Brandon M. Fritz of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis for "The Effects of Combined Binge Intake of Caffeine and Ethanol on Later Neurobehavioral Responsivity to Cocaine in Mice."
- Pauline Goger of California State University, Long Beach, for "The Influence of Maternal Psychological Control on Mental Health in Youth and Emerging Adult Children."
- Kevin A. Haworth of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee for "Effects of Rumination on Working Memory in Depression."
- Jolene A. Jacquart of the University of Texas at Austin for "Exercise and Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia."
- Charles J. Lynch of Georgetown University for "Testing a Noradrenergic Mechanism of Executive Function."
- Robert M.G. Reinhart of Vanderbilt University for "Executive Control Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Insights from Causal Manipulations of Brain Activity."
- Mark Wade of the University of Toronto for "A Developmental Cascade Model of Neurocognitive Functioning: Risk, Resilience, and Implications for Children's Mental Health."
For information about the graduate student scholarships and to apply, visit APFopens in new window. The application deadline is June 30.
