Graduate Student Awards and Fellowships
Sarah Vidal received a $1,000 funding from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to help fund her dissertation research.
Eric Murphy was selected to co-chair a symposium session at the Society for Research in Child Development on studying socio-emotional deficits in developmental disorders using fMRI. He also recieved an honorable mention for his application for an American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Basic Psychological Science Research Grant. He has also received a fellowship from the John Merck Fund to attend the 2009 Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities at Cornell University, an interdisciplinary forum to to meet and learn from leading researchers in developmental disorders.
Natalie Brito was awarded the Dissertation Research Travel Award by the Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This award will allow her to travel to Barcelona, Spain, during the summer of 2012 to collect a part of her dissertation data. She was also awarded a two-year Language Scholarship by the Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The scholarship will allow her to develop her Spanish skills for her dissertation examining cognitive flexibility in bilingual children.
Katherine Gamble received the 2nd Place Award for Conference Poster and Presentation, APA Division 3 (2011). Her poster was entitled "Does Nonconscious Goal Pursuit Improve Implicit Learning?"
Ilana Bennett* was awarded an NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute on Aging which supported her final two years of study. The title of her grant was "Aging, implicit learning, and white matter integrity." Lani was also the recipient of the 2011 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation in the Sciences, the highest award from the Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honoring truly distinguished scholars.
Beth Meloy was named as one of the Child Care Research Scholars by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. This award provides a two-year research grant that will support her dissertation research, "Child Development at the Intersection of Early Care and Education and Child Welfare."
Amanda Exner* was awarded the 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Games Research grant in collaboration with Dr. Sandra Calvert (PI) and Dr. Anisha Abraham (Co PI). She was also awarded the 2009 Zeta Tau Alpha Founders Scholarship. In 2007, she was selected as one of five University Fellows. She also received the Omicron Delta Kappa Foundation Scholarship to fund her graduate studies.
Alexis Lauricella* was awarded the 2009 Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship Award.
Amy Lowenstein* was awarded a two-year Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant by the Administration for Children and Families in September 2007. The grant supported her dissertation research on the effects of the universal pre-kindergarten and Head Start programs in Oklahoma on low-income children’s socio-emotional adjustment.
Anna Mikulak was awarded a Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant (2011) and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (2011), which will help support her dissertation study. Anna was also selected for the Science Writing Internship (2011) with the Association for Psychological Science.
Devon Brost Oskvig* (2007) and Melanie Stollstorff* (2008) were awarded Center for Brain Based Cognition Graduate Student Seed Grants to promote cross-campus, interdisciplinary research.
Jessica Simon* was awarded the NRSA Predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging, which supported her final two years of study. The title of her grant was "Neural basis of aging and implicit learning." Jessie also received the APA Dissertation award for $1,000, which funded her dissertation research.
Elizabeth Zack* was awarded a 2009 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship from the American Psychological Foundation. The fellowship promotes the advancement of knowledge and learning in the field of child psychology and supported Beth during her dissertation year. The title of her grant was “Social factors and infant learning from media.”
