Overview Award Recipients
These faculty and students have won various Departmental, College, University and National awards.
Departmental Award Recipients

Erica Barhorst-Cates
Clayton Award For Excellence in Graduate Research
Testing Cross-Cultural Differences in Navigation Based on Environmental Structure and Mobility Behavior in Italy and Utah

Alex Crenshaw
Clayton Award For Excellence in Graduate Research
Autonomic Correlates of Empahtic Accuracy

Erin Kaufman
B. Jack White Memorial Award

Devin Gill
Kevin Hawley Memorial Award

Kris Oldroyd
Frederick T. Rhodewalt Award for Innovative Scholarship

Carrie Baron
The Nancy Patterson Klekas Outstandiing Service Award

Mark E. Lavelle
Outstanding Honors Thesis in Psychology
EEG Time-Grequency Dynamics Associated with Eye Blink Suppression

Lisa G. Aspinwall
Irwin Altman Outstanding Psychology Faculty Award
College of Social and Behavioral Science Award Recipients

Cecilia Wainryb
Superior Teaching - Senior Tenure Track

Patricia Kerig
Superior Research - Senior Tenure Track

Bert Uchino
Excellence in Mentoring

Kristina Rand
2017 College of Social and Behavioral Science Superior Teaching Award Career-Line Recognition

Sheila Crowell
Honors Student Supervision Recognition
College of Social and Behavioral Science Student Research Day Awardees

Kimberly Sholler
Advisor: Sarah Creem-Regehr
3rd Place Undergraduate
A Comparison of Types of Low Vision on Spatial Learning While Navigating

Tessa Sommer
Advisor: Frank Drews
1st Place Graduate
Sparking the Memory for Hand Hygiene

Devin Gill
Advisor: Jeanine Stefanucci
1st Place Graduate
The Effect of Sex and Parenthood on Perceived Distances to Objects
University Award Recipients

Don Strassberg
Distinguished Mentor

Craig Bryan
Presidential Scholar

Frank Drews
Transforming U: Beacons of Excellence

Colin Adamo
African-American Doctoral Scholar

Michaela Mozley
African-American Doctoral Scholar
National Award Recipients

Jacqueline M. Chen
Association for Psychological Science Rising Star

Ed Diener
Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology Hall of Fame

Brendan Ostlund
Society for Research and Child Development Dissertation Funding award

Liz Conradt
Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Research Contribution
and
Kurcharski Young Investigator Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
and
2017 Society for Researching Child Development Early Career Research Contributions Award

Michael Himle
NIH Small Business Innovation Research Program Award
Project entitled "Development and initial testing of CBIT-Trainer: An interactive online program for training therapists in comprehensive behavioral intervention for tic disorders"
Samantha L. Joel
Association for Psychological Science Rising Star

Lauren Williams
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
and
2017 STEM Ambassador

Colin Adamo
Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention)

Lucybel Mendez
Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention)

Lace Padilla
Vice President, lower-campus SACNAS group
and
2017 STEM Ambassador

Brennan Payne
Early Career Award, APA Division 3, Human Perception and Performance Category for Best Paper
and
ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE RISING STAR

Kristina Rand
Early Career Award, APA Division 3, Human Perception and Performance Category for Best Paper

Carrie Baron
APA Dissertation Award

Ascher Munion
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Scholarships and Fellowships

Madison Niermeyer
Dean's Graduate Fellowship

Lace Padilla
Martin Harris Hiatt Endowed Scholarship
and
Graduate Research Fellowship

Spencer Castro
Herbert W. Gustafson Scholarship