Congratulations to Yesenia Aguilar Silvan (Clinical Area) on being awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation! The award provides three years of support and is made to individuals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research…
Congratulations to Victoria Jacoby (Cognitive Area) for receiving the V-VSS 2021 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award! Each year, VSS endeavors to support travel to the annual meeting through a travel awards program.
Congratulations to Jennifer Gamarra (Clinical Area) for receiving the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology’s Leadership Education to Advance Diversity (LEAD) Fellow Award. The goal of LEAD is to provide professional development, networking, and leadership skills for graduate students and early career professionals.
Congratulations to Joni Brown (Health Area), who won the Outstanding Trainee Award at the 2021 Health Preconference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Congratulations to Anika Guha (Clinical Area), who received an NIMH F31 fellowship grant, “Identifying Neural Mechanisms of Aberrant Inhibitory Processing and Salience in Patients with Schizophrenia, with Cindy Yee-Bradbury as sponsor and Greg Miller as co-sponsor, and Katie Karlsgodt and Amanda Montoya as consultants.”
Congratulations to Sarah Rocha (Developmental Area) on receiving the 2021 Monica Salinas Summer Scholarship. The Monica Salinas Summer Scholarship provides summer funding and conference travel costs for a graduate student in Psychology who is committed to advancing the field of Latino mental health.
Congratulations to Ringo Huang (Cognitive Area) for receiving a Graduate Student Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) for his poster submission to the 2021 CNS conference.
Congratulations to Yesenia Aguilar Silvan (Clinical Area) for receiving the Irving and Jean Stone Fund from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. The Irving and Jean Stone Fund supports students whose academic, advocacy, organizing work and goals advance social justice feminism.
Congratulations to Akila Kadambi (Cognitive Area) and Carolyn Ponting (Clinical Area), who received the APA Dissertation Research Award. The purpose of the APA Science Directorate’s Dissertation Research Award program is to assist science-oriented doctoral students of psychology whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology with research costs.
Congratulations to Isabelle Lanser (Clinical Area) for receiving the Norma & Seymour Feshbach Doctoral Dissertation Award. The Norma & Seymour Feshbach Doctoral Dissertation Award provides funds for dissertation research on the reduction of human aggression or on positive social behavior.