Student Awards

Current Graduate Students

Samantha Vervoordt

  • Wisniewski Family Enhancement Fund Award (2023)

Graduate Student Alumni

Emily Grossner

  • American Psychological Foundation (APA) Dissertation Award (2020)

  • Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Award (2020)

  • Clinical Scientist Practitioner Award (2020)

  • Superior Teaching and Research (STAR) Award, College of Liberal Arts (2019)

  • Ellen V. Piers Award (2019)

  • 3rd place, Penn State Graduate Student Research Exhibition, Social & Behavioral Sciences Division (2018)

Kristine Dell

  • Clinical Scientist Practitioner Award (2021)

Einat Brenner

  • American Psychological Foundation (APA) Dissertation Award (2019)

  • American Psychological Foundation (AFP) Benton-Meier Neuropsychology Scholarship (2019)

  • Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Award (2019)Rachel Bernier

  • Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging (SLEIC) Dissertation Award (2018)

  • Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Award (2018)

  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year (2014-2015)

Umesh Venkatesan

  • Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Award (2016)

  • Penn State Psychology Department, Best Paper Award (2015)

John Medaglia

  • Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F31 (2013)

  • Martin T. Murphy Award for Excellence (2011)

Undergraduate Alumni

Emily Carter

  • Costello Family Scholarship in Psychology (2023)

Alexander Rembalsky

  • University Fellowships & Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Award (2019)

Nicholas Gilbert

  • Mona Shibley Bird Memorial Scholarship (2018)