Department of Psychology Celebrating the 2016-2017 Academic Year

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Grant Victoria Spring (Social) Thanks and congratulations to faculty and fellow students who contributed to this effort.

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions Kayla Brown (Developmental) Frances Lobo (Developmental)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS Fall RGSO Dissertation Award Elizabeth Shewark (Developmental) Alexander Weigard (Clinical)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS Fall RGSO Dissertation Funding Jessica Meyer (Clinical) Indira Turney (Cognitive)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS Spring RGSO Dissertation Funding Kent Alipour (I/O) Devin McGuier (Clinical)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS Fall RGSO Dissertation Funding Alexander McKay (I/O) Natalie Motto-Mena (Cognitive)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS Fall RGSO Dissertation Funding Giorgia Picci (Developmental) Haoyun Zhang (Cognitive)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS STAR Award John Huhn (Cognitive) Benjamin Johnson (Clinical)

STUDENT FUNDING AWARDS STAR Award Robert Melloy (I/O)

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Federica Bulgarelli, Cognitive Received a Graduate Student Travel Grant from PSU’s Global Programs (Spain) Margaret Cadden, Clinical Received a Consortium for Multiple Sclerosis Centers Scholarship

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Melissa Gutworth, I/O Won 3rd place in the 2017 Graduate Exhibition poster session Benjamin Johnson, Clinical Received Best “Speed-Data” Talk Award at the NASSPD Conference

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Cecilia Liu, Developmental Received the 2017 Strumpf Scholar Award from the CSC Lucas LaFreniere, Clinical Recently cited on two websites April 10 in “Worry Journal Significantly Eases Anxiety” by Nancy Melville on Medscape and April 12 on the Huffington post article titled, “This simple Hack May Help with Anxiety.”

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Jessica Meyer, Clinical Received the 2016 APA Dissertation Research Award and the 2016 Scott Mesh Honorary Grant for Research in Psychology from the American Psychology Foundation. She also won 3rd place in the 2017 Graduate Exhibition poster session.

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Amanda Ramos, Developmental Received the Junior Award from the John Templeton Foundation on Genetics and Human Agency Christina Roman, Clinical Received the SLEIC Dissertation Award

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Lia Rosenstein, Clinical Received the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders 2017 Young Investigator Award Elizabeth Shewark, Developmental Received the SLEIC Dissertation Award and a National Research Service Award

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Garret Swan, Cognitive Received a Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal Indira Turney, Clinical Received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Program Scholar and the SLEIC Dissertation Award

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Christina Webb, Cognitive Received a Pre-doctoral Fellow on the Center for Aging’s NIA Pathways T32 Training Grant

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Best Clinical Graduate Student Paper Award Jason Bendezu “What constitutes effective coping and efficient physiologic regulation following psychosocial stress depends on involuntary stress responses,” Psychoneuroendocrinology

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS TEN clinical students who applied for internship this year were matched: Eran Auday - WellSpan Health, York, PA Sunghye “Jen” Cho – University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS Tracy Clouthier – SUNY Upstate Medical University-Syracuse, Syracuse, NY Carla Kavlin – Westchester Jewish Community Services, Hartsdale, NY Micah Mammen – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS TEN clinical students who applied for internship this year were matched: Jessica Meyer – Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH Elizabeth Miller – University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK Mojdeh Motamedi – Aurora Community Mental Health Center, Aurora, CO Emile Tilghman-Osborne – Multicultural Psychology Internship Program, Springfield, MA Alexander Weigard – Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Martin T. Murphy Award for Excellence Rebecca Janis, Clinical

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award Melissa Gutworth, I/O Brett Neely, I/O

STUDENT AWARDS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Outstanding Graduate Student Publication Award Giorgia Picci, Developmental “From Caregivers to Peers: Puberty Shapes Human Face Perception” Psychological Science