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Undergraduate Research Forum 2024

Thanks so much to everyone who supported the Department of Psychology on UF’s Giving Day 2024! Your generosity supported this event and prizes!

A collage showing students participating in a psychology research event, with a group photo outside a "PSYCHOLOGY" building and several images of students presenting research posters. One poster is titled "Examining the Tele-Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Coaching Program's Effects on Anger, Grief, and Perceived Loneliness Among Underserved, Black Adults" from UF FLORIDA.

Each Spring, the Psychology Graduate Student Organization (PGSO) hosts an Undergraduate Research Forum to give undergraduate researchers the chance to show what they’ve been working on in their labs over the past year(s) and compete for a monetary prize.

This year we had an all time high of 40 high-quality poster presentations from talented undergraduates, making judging particularly challenging! The top three poster presenters are as follows:

A smiling man in a polo shirt stands next to an academic poster titled "The integration of life events differentially impacts ratings of the good life" by Derek A. Simon and Erin C. Westgate from the University of Florida.

1st place:

Derek Simon, 4th year: The integration of life events differentially impacts ratings of the good life

Mentor: Erin Westgate

Smiling young man in a black suit, white shirt, and light blue tie, with a blurred outdoor background of trees.

2nd place:

Michael Valuta, 2nd year: Intrusion in Love: Conflict, Trust, Uncertainty & the Impulsive Factor

Mentor: Lindsey Rodriguez

3rd place:

Madeleine Maw, 4th year: Task demands and sensory externalization interact to influence accuracy and metacognition in reality monitoring

Mentor: Brian Odegaard