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National Research Awards Won by UWM Psychology Students
UWM Psychology students have consistently been recognized for the quality and quantity of scholarly research they conduct with our faculty. Our students compete with the best and brightest of their peers from all of the major research universities in the United States. Below is a partial list of the national awards our students have won between 1988 and 2007.
2007
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Jessica Barnack
- Olga Shcheslavskaya
2006
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Lori Phelps
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Olga Shcheslavskaya
American Psychological Association Division 38 Student Research Award in Ethnic Minority Health Psychology
- Alicia Helion
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Michael McCart
2005
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Frank Gallo
- Espen Klausen
- Paul Heideman
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Espen Klausen
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Michael Gaffrey
- Frank Gallo
- Espen Klausen
- Olga Shcheslavskaya
2004
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Kirsten Li
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Anne Mary Montero
Ruth L. Kirchenstein National Institute of Mental Health National Research
Service Award (NRSA) (three-year fellowship)
- Ryan Parsons
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Kirsten Li
2003
American Psychological Association/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship
- Michael Himle
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Kristen Jastrowski
APAGS (American Psychological Association of Graduate Students) Nancy B. Forest and L. Michael Honaker Scholarship for Master's Research in Psychology
- David Bauer
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Doctoral Dissertation Grant for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities ($19,866)
- Michael McCart
Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid of Research
- David Bauer (second grant)
- Espen Klausen
- Tara Thomas
2002
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Michelle Braun
- Jennifer Callahan
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Christine Smith
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- David Bauer
2001
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Helen Kacmarek
- David Rademacher
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- David Rademacher (second award)
American Psychological Association/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship
- Helen Kaczmarek
Epilepsy Foundation Student Fellowship Grant
- Vaishali Phatak
Pulaski Scholarship
- Helen Kaczmarek
2000
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- David Rademacher
American Psychological Association/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship
- David Rademacher
Gates Millennium Scholarship
- Dominic Cheng
National Institute on Drug Abuse Scholars for the Future Travel Award
- David Rademacher
Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid of Research
- Melissa Norberg
- David Rademacher
1999
American Psychological Association Travel Award
- Gretchen Weatherly
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Susanne Chmidling
- Helen Kaczmarek
- Amy Knight
- Mary Frye Randolph
- Angela Sikorski (second grant)
Clara Mayo Grant (Division 9, American Psychological Association)
- Katie Anders
CIC/Women in Science and Engineering Student Travel Award
- Stephanie Powell
- Angela Sikorski
1998
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Laura Kocorowski
American Psychological Association Division 29 Education and Training Award
- Sean Stevens
National Institutes of Health Predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) (three-year fellowship)
- David Rademacher
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Katie Anders
- Stephanie Powell
- Michael Rainer
- Angela Sikorski
1997
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Laurel Colton
Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship
- Celeste Milligan
- Kenira Thompson
American Psychological Association Minority Neuroscience Fellowship
- Kenira Thompson (declined award to accept Ford Fellowship)
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Tara Neavins
- Kenira Thompson
CIC/Women in Science and Engineering Student Travel Award
- Laura Kocorowski
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Leanne Mitchem
- Kurtis Noblett
- David Rademacher
- Kenira Thompson
National Institutes of Health Predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) (three-year fellowship)
- David Knight
American Psychological Foundation/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship
- Kurtis Noblett
1996
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Theodore McDonald
- Leanne Mitchem
- Tara Neavins
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Thomas Schleicher
SPSSI Grant (Division 9, American Psychological Association)
- Thomas Schleicher
U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language/Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
- Benjamin Weinstein
Honorable Mention, American Psychological Association/Psi Chi Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award
- Leanne Mitchem
1995
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Peggy Edwards
- Sandra Regan
- Tania Davis
- Susmita Kashikar-Zuck
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Tania Davis
- Heidi Storm
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Manjula Ramareddy
- Sheralee Tershner
Perinatal Foundation Research Grant ($10,000)
- Peggy Edwards
1994
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Keri Riener Hainsworth
- Leslie Lundahl
- Michael McCrea
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Celeste Milligan
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Pamela Schaefer
1993
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Toby Ansfield
- Brian Cronk
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Tania Davis
American Psychological Society
- Brian Cronk, Student Research Competition (one of three winners in the nation)
Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid of Research
- Toby Ansfield
- Sandra Regan
1992
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- David Cipriano
- Karen Friedlen
- Elizabeth O'Laughlin
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Leslie Lundahl
- Tracy O'Donnell
1991
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Bert Berger
- Ron Cisler
- Laree Huntsman
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Toby Ansfield
- Bert Berger
- Ron Cisler
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Laree Huntsman
1990
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Sid Anderson
- Tracy O'Donnell
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Daniel Zuck
Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Research
- Daniel Zuck
1989
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Patrick Progar
1988
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
- Sandra Hale
- Carolyn Morse
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
- Sandra Hale
