Courtney Wilkinson, a graduate student in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience graduate program, was awarded an NIH (NIDA) F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (NRSA) for $143,082 (3 years of funding). Courtney will use this funding to investigate the role of the nucleus accumbens in oxytocin’s regulation of intravenous oxycodone demand in collaboration with Dr. Lori Knackstedt (Sponsor), Dr. Marek Schwendt, and Dr. Jesse Dallery. (PI: Courtney Wilkinson MS, Sponsor: Lori Knackstedt, PhD)
Eliany Perez, Graduate Student is awarded O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship with the amount to $7000 funded by UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This scholarship is awarded to a graduate student committed to social issues such as fostering opportunities for women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background. The scholarship was established in the memory of O. Ruth McQuown – an avid supporter of such social values.
Joshua Perlin, Graduate Student in Social Psychology was awarded Rothman Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities ($3000), funded by University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. This research grant allows Joshua to study how religious environments and practices shape identity. This work will be a part of his dissertation and will specifically investigate the influence of religious socioecology on individuals’ narrative identities using a single religious tradition (Anglican Christianity) within a naturally occurring difference in church socioecology.
Dr. Mary Kate Koch, Life Story Lab postdoc with Dr. Susan Bluck, received Hershel D. Thornburg Dissertation Award funded by Society for Research on Adolescence. The Hershel D. Thornburg Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding scholastic promise in research on adolescence. One award is given out per year. It is the highest achievement for graduate research in the subfield of research on adolescence.
Graduate Students Elisha LePine and Joshua Perlin, together with mentor Dr. Erin Westgate (Assistant Professor) received Open Science of Religion grant for $20,000 from the Templeton Foundation. This grant was awarded for a project aimed at better understanding how different Christian religious worship practices impact psychological experiences.
Didem Pehlivanoglu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the department of psychology. Working in the lab of Natalie Ebner, Ph.D., Pehlivanoglu is conducting research focused on understanding whether people become more susceptible to deception in advanced age and, if so, identifying any cognitive, socioemotional and neurobiological mechanisms behind it.
Konstantina Sokratous, graduate student from BCN was given the A.G. Leventis Foudantion Education Grant. This grant allows graduate students to advance their research. Competition is very keen and typically, in any given year, the foundation only approves one in eight of eligible applications. This award will allow expansion of my current research in AI, by leveraging machine learning tools to automate joint modeling of various types of data (EGG, fMRI, behavioral).
Kirsten Klein, graduate student from Counseling was awarded American Psychological Association’s Division 17 SAS Outstanding Student Researcher Award worth $250. Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS) is pleased to announce research awards for outstanding research related to social justice and liberation. This award is granted to a student in counseling psychology for research completed as a graduate student.
Ece Yüksel, graduate student with the support from Dr. Steven Weisberg, Assistant Professor were awarded the 2023 Psychonomic Society Graduate Conference Award. The Psychonomic Society annually give up to fifteen (15) Graduate Conference Awards (previously Graduate Travel Awards) for graduate student members of the Society. Each Awardee will receive a certificate, ribbon, and a stipend of $750 USD to support their participation in the annual meeting.
Eliany Perez, graduate student was awarded T32 Research Training Grant in Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Cognition in Aging, MCI, and Alzheimer’s Disease funded by NIA. ($27,144 stipend + $500 travel + $100 in research expenses) The T32 fellowship supports advanced graduate students pursuing a PhD who are interested in aging research. Specifically, it’s focus is on training the next generation of researchers in the field of cognitive psychology, aiming to address cognitive decline and AD/ADRD related issues.
Alejandro Gamba, Graduate student with the full support of his supervisor, Dr. Brian Odegaard was accepted into the prestigious RIKEN CBS (Center for Brain Sciences) summer program in Tokyo, Japan. The summer program consists of lecture/conference where people can share their home research projects and assist to lectures from very well-known researchers. Only a few students (around 15-20) are selected to complete a 2-month internship where they develop a research project under the supervision of a PI at the Riken center and start possible collaborations between the university and the research center. Alejandro was accepted for the internship course under the supervision of Dr. Hakwan Lau. A brilliant and very recognized researcher in the field of consciousness research