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James F. Boswell received the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration Dissertation Award as well as a Liberal Arts Dissertation Award to investigate emotional processing in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. James is a sixth year clinical psychology student, and his primary research interests include studying the process of change in psychotherapy, psychotherapy integration, and the training of psychotherapists. He received a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Simpson College and an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from Penn State University. |
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Mark Lukowitsky was awarded the 2009 Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research for work presented at this year's annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research (SITAR). In addition, he received a Liberal Arts Dissertation Award to study interpersonal perception of pathological narcissism. Mark is in his 5th year of study in the adult track of the clinical psychology program. In addition to his research on pathological narcissism Mark is also interested in interpersonal theory and methods for studying personality within clinical psychology. Mark received his B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA and his M.A. from Hunter College in New York City. |
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Jessica L. Cundiff received a national Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant to investigate the role of stereotype endorsement in attributing outcomes to discrimination. A second year student in social psychology and women’s studies, Jessica’s research focuses on the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms involved in perpetuating and maintaining inequality. She received a B.A. in psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Gray Vargas was a 1st place winner in Social and Behavioral Sciences for her poster presented at the Penn State University Graduate Research Exhibition, March 29, 2009. This award was based upon Gray's poster entitled, “Positivity of Everyday Experiences Interacts with Social Support to Predict Depression in Multiple Sclerosis. Gray is starting her second year in the clinical psychology doctoral program. She is a student in Dr. Arnett's neuropsychology lab and is currently studying attributional style as it relates to depression in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Haverford College. |
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Susan C. Bobb received a Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award as well as a National Science Foundation dissertation research grant to investigate the cognitive processes underlying second language development. A fifth-year cognitive psychology student, Susan focuses her research on second language learning and bilingual language control. She received a B.S. in Psychology and double-major in French from Sweet Briar College, and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Virginia before coming to Penn State. |
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Cari Anne Bogulski received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship to investigate vocabulary acquisition in monolingual and bilingual speakers. Cari is a first-year cognitive psychology student working on bilingual language processing in adults, as well as how bilingual and monolingual individuals differ more generally. She received a B.A. in Psychology at the University of Arkansas. |
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Rajal G. Cohen received a Liberal Arts Dissertation Award to study the relation between physiological tremor and intention. Rajal is a sixth-year cognitive psychology student with a long-term interest in the nature of preparation. She was certified by the American Society for Alexander Technique in 1997 and received her B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University in 2002. Following her graduation in August 2008, she will be working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University. |
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Lauren A. Killeen received a Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award to support her research examining mothers' neurophysiological responses to their own infant's emotional displays, utilizing EEG methodology. Lauren is a 5th year child clinical psychology doctoral student studying the neurophysiological correlates of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of parenting that may place children at risk for developing psychopathology. She received her B.A. in Psychology at Northwestern University. |
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Jared Linck was awarded 2nd place in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Penn State's 2008 Graduate Research Exhibition for his dissertation research examining the role of inhibitory control in bilingual speech production. Jared is a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology whose research focuses on the cognitive aspects of bilingualism and second language processing. His dissertation research is supported in part by a Dissertation Support Grant from the College of Liberal Arts. |
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Elizabeth B. Reitz received a National Institute of Mental Health F31 (NRSA) and a Liberal Arts Dissertation Award to investigate maternal cognition and sensitivity with toddlers. Elizabeth received her B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University, and is now a fifth year child clinical psychology Ph.D. student. Working with her advisor, Pamela Cole, Elizabeth examines maternal sensitivity within the context of promoting the development of toddler self-regulatory abilities. Her goals are to operationalize competent parenting into teachable units that can be incorporated into parent-child interventions, and to identify an aspect of maternal cognition (i.e. conceptual complexity) that predicts such competent parenting behavior. |
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Lori Nicole Scott received a National Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Kirschstein Fellowship Award to investigate neuroendocrine and phenomenological stress reactivity in patients with borderline personality disorder. Lori is in her fourth year of study in the adult track of the clinical psychology program. The long-term goals of her program of research are to elucidate the specific mechanisms underlying borderline personality disorder and to apply these findings to the development and validation of treatments that directly target these mechanisms. Lori also won a Liberal Arts Dissertation Award. Lori was a modern dance performer before she began studying psychology, and she received a B.F.A. in dance from Marymount Manhattan College in 1998. She earned her M.S. in psychology from Penn State University in 2007. |
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Nicholas Sibrava was awarded the Harold F. Martin Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award. This is a university-wide award recognizing graduate students who have been nominated by faculty and undergraduates for their outstanding teaching at Penn State. Nicholas is a sixth-year clinical psychology doctoral student whose research focuses on the development, treatment, and prevention of anxiety and mood disorders. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Criminology from The Ohio State University. |
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Matthew Zawadzki received a national Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant to investigate the effects that increasing levels of arousal after being touched influences the way that a touch is perceived. Matthew is a second-year social psychology student working on understanding how touch functions, particularly how perceptions of the toucher by the person touched interact with the state variables of the person touched (e.g., the need to affiliate and the need for personal space). Matthew works with Dr. Stephanie Shields (advisor) examining the effects of labeling a person's emotions, particularly when emotion labeling will be perceived as positive or negative, when emotion labeling is likely to occur, and how to thwart the negative effects of emotion labeling. Matthew received a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy at Iona College, and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods at Columbia University. |
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