FACULTY, STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
HONORS AND AWARDS
2009-2010
It is with a great pleasure that we congratulate our Psychology Doctoral Students, Faculty and Alumni for their impressive accomplishments.
Dr. Margaret Bull Kovera : 2009-2010 Distinguished Teaching Award and 2009-2010 Faculty Scholarly Excellence Reward
Dr. Michelle Fine : GC Grant Awarded, Surdna Foundation, Proposal to Support and Expand Participatory Action Research Collective at Graduate Center
Dr. Sarit Golub and William Kowalczyk (student) : GC Grant Awarded, NIH-NRSA, Neuropsychological Functioning in HIV Positive and Methamphetamine Using Men
Dr. Jeffrey Halperin
* NIH grants: Neurodevelopmental Perspectives on ADHD" ,Agency #: 1R01MH068286; Period: 9/1/09 – 6/30/14
* NIH grants: "Training Executive, Attention, and Motor Skills (TEAMS): Preliminary Studies" Agency #: 1R21MH085898-01; Period:4/10/09 – 3/31/11
Dr. Roger Hart : 2009 GC Grant Awarded, U.S. Fund for UNISEF, Framework for Action: Child Friendly Communities and Cities in the USA.
Dr. Edwin Hollander : is to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from International Leadership Association at their annual meeting in Boston on October 22-26, 2010
Dr. Maria Hartwig : 2009-2010 Faculty Scholarly Excellence Reward
Dr. Susan Saegert : 2009 Commitee on Socioeconomic Status Award for Distinguished Leadership at the American Psychological Association's Annual Convention, held in Toronto
Shea Alvalez (Forensic Psychology): The Michael Serafino Award for "Best Student Paper" from the Society for Police and Criminal, 2009
Jackie Austin (Forensic Psychology): First Place in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Student Section Poster Award Competition presented in San Antonio 2009
Poster Title: "The Effects of Judge Versus Attorney Cross-Examination of Experts on Juror Evaluation of Evidence Quality "
Michelle Culang (Neuropsychology) : along with her mentor Assistant Professor Joel Sneed had their recent research presentation highlighted on DocGuide (URL below). Docguide is a website that provides medical and pharmacological news, case studies and specialty and subspecialty-specific updates on the latest in treatment and research.Michelle presented her work at the annual American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry meeting (March 3-5, 2010 held in Savannah, GA) which is the leading association in geriatric psychiatry. The link to the release is http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/NewsPrint/852576140048867C852576E000005460
Tarika Daftary-Kapur (Forensic Psychology): First Place in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Pre- and Post-Venire Publicity on Juror Decision-Making"
Under the Supervision of: Professor Maureen O'Connor and Distinguished Professor Steven Penrod
Lauren Dewey (Forensic Psychology): Outstanding Student Paper Award (Student Section) in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dissertation Title: "A comparison of the HCR-20 and PCL:SV in predicting success in mental health diversion programs"
Under the Supervision of: Professor Tom Kucharski
Valerie Futch (Social-Personality Psychology): Doctoral Student's Council Dissertation Award for Social Science 2010-2011
Jen Gieseking (Environmental Psychology): has been awarded 1out of 10 Humboldt German Chancellor Fellowship available for U.S. scholar to spent 2010-2011 in Germany conducting research that extends her dissertation work. [Read More]
Julia Kennard (Forensic Psychology): the American Psychology-Law Society Travel Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Sarah Kopelvich (Forensic Psychology): First Outstanding Student Paper Award (Joint Student Section/ Corrections Committee) in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dissertation Title: "Procedural justice among defendants diverted to mandated community treatment: Potential effects on compliance and recidivism"
Under the Supervision of: Professor Tom Kucharski
William Kowalczyk (Neuropsychology) : along with Associate Professor Sarit Golub was awarded GC Grant Awarded, NIH-NRSA, Neuropsychological Functioning in HIV Positive and Methamphetamine Using Men
Kimberly Libman (Environmental Psychology): Her research paper, Targeting the High Cost of College Textbook, is the Basis of a Legistrative Package just introduced in the New Yok State Assembly (March 2010). [Read More]
Anthony Perillo (Forensic Psychology): the American Psychology-Law Society Travel Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Krystal Perkins (Social-Personality Psychology) : MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship
09-10
Dissertation Title: "Acceptance of Injustice Among African Americans as a Function of Ideology and Social Comparison Processes "
Gianni Pirelli (Forensic Psychology): Second Place in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dissertation Title: "A Meta-Analytic Review of Competency to Stand Trial Research"
Under the Supervision of: Professor William Gottdiener and Professor Patricia Zapf
Patricia Ruiz-Navarro (Social-Personality Psychology): Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 09-10
Dissertation Title: "Orientation to Homeland: Understanding Permanent Settlement and Transnational Parenting Decisions among Mexican Migrant Mothers "
Agnieszka Skorupka (Environmental Psychology): has been awarded a personal visiting researcher grant towards travel and living costs for a research stay at University of Oslo, Department of Informatics from January 1, 2010 throughout December 2010
Meredith Theeman (Environmental Psychology): has won the 2010 American Psychological Association Division 34 (Population & Environment) Graduate Student Paper Contest. The submission focuses on dissertation finding related to seasonal sensitivity and environmental attribution. [Abstract]
Kathleen Van Dyk (Neuropsychology) : has been selected for a Public Interest Policy Internship in the American Psychological Association's Public Interest Government Relation Office beginning in September 2009
Brian Wallace (Forensic Psychology): Outstanding Student Paper Award (Student Section) in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dissertation Title: "Detecting malintent through eye-tracking"
Under the Supervision of: Professor Maria Hartwig and Professor Saul Kassin
Tina Zottoli (Forensic Psychology): the American Psychology-Law Society Travel Award (Vancouver, Canada)
Dr. Barney Beins (Alumnus, Experimental Psychology 1979): was awarded the 2010 American Psychological Foundation Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award. Dr. Beins is currently a professor at Ithaca College. His research interests focus on issues in teaching psychology, history of psychology, psychology of humor and undergraduate research. [CV]
Dr. Danielle L. Beatty (Alumna, Social-Personality Psychology 2007) has published her first article in July 2009. The title of her Publication is "Unfair Treatment and Trait Anger in Relation to Nighttime Ambulatory Blood Pressure in African-American and White Adolescents [Article]
Dr. Suzanne M. Clerkin (Alumna, Neuropsychology 2009): "Guanfacine Potentiates the Activation of Prefrontal Cortext Evoked by Warning Signals" was published in and highlighted on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Biological Psychiatry". Dr. Clerkin completed her work in Dr. Jeffrey Halperin's Laboratory at Queens College. The article relates to her dissertation, which examined the role played by noradrenergic receptors in the prefrontal cortext during human attentional processing.
Dr. Vianna Eduardo (Alumna, Developmental Psychology 2007): was awarded the 2010 Early Career Award by the Awards Committee of the Cultural Historical SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This is a very prestigious and competitive award acknowledging outstanding
scholarship that makes a significant contribution (theoretical and methodological) to the cultural
historical research. Eduardo was invited to give a talk about his research at the annual AERA meeting
next year.
Dr. Julia Tomassilli (Alumna, Social-Personality Psychology 2009): Ford Foundation Awards 09-10
Dissertation Title: "Navigating Sexuality in the Stigmatized Context of HIV/AIDS: A Study of HIV-Positive Men and Women in New York City "