Clinical and Experimental Student Paper Awards for the Best Written Papers by Graduate Students

Graduate Award

Amount: Clinical Students: 1st Place: $300; 2nd Place: $100 Experimental Students: 1st Place: $300; 2nd Place: $100

Aims and Founders

The aim of these awards is to encourage productivity and quality of publications in the graduate community.

This award is funded by the Department of Psychology and was introduced in 2012.

Eligibility

These awards are open to all graduate students who have at least one first author paper published (or in press) during the academic year. Two 1^st Place awards (one for a Clinical student, one for an Experimental student), and two 2^nd place awards (again, one for a Clinical student, one for an Experimental student) will be given. Please note: if your paper won last year, you cannot use that same paper to compete for an award again this year.

Applying for the Awards

Students should submit the following:

Their best first-authored paper published or in press during the academic year
A short cover letter specifying their role and degree of involvement in the research reported in the paper

Awardees

Best Clinical Paper, Ist place

2024 Meredith Blackwell & Hanna Hebden
2023 Victoria Votaw
2022 Hannah Carlon
2021 Elena Stein
2020 Victoria Votaw
2019 Gabriela Lopez
2018 Corey Roos
2017 Adam Wilson
2016 Corey Roos

Best Clinical Paper, 2nd place

2018 Megan Kirouac
2017 Robert Bailey
2016 Robert Bailey

Best Experimental Paper, lst place

2024 Julia Sheronova
2023 Mark Lavelle
2022 Brett Anderson
2021 Carlos Maestas-Olguin
2020 Benjamin Gibson
2019 Jacqueline Janowich
2018 J. Michael Maurer
2017 Daniel Barto
2016 J. Michael Maurer

Best Experimental Paper, 2nd place

2019 Benjamin Gibson
2018 Darin Brown

Department of Psychology