1. Department of Psychology
Celebrating the
Academic Year

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.”

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

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