Past Award Winners: Texas Psychological Foundation

 2024

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Maria Ahmed
  • Second Place – Da Hwin Kim
  • Third Place – Sara Hiller

2023

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Jesse Walker

Manuel Ramirez III Award

  • Karina Silva
  • Jessica Hernandez Ortiz

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Julia Livingstone
  • Second Place – Mary Wilson
  • Third Place – Veronika Croan
  • Honorable Mention – Ian Scully

2022

Manuel Ramirez III Ethnic Minority Graduate Student for Dissertation

  • Jeethu Joseph, PhD

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Noelle Filoteo Young
  • Second Place – Joann Chen
  • Third Place – Melanie Almaguer

2021

Manuel Ramirez III, Ethnic Minority Graduate Student for Dissertation

  • Angelina Mayorga

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Rebekah Urban
  • Second Place – Raney Sachs
  • Third Place – Rachel E. Dugan
  • Peer Award – Summer Ijarah
  • Honorable Mention – Jacob Walla

2020

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Research Award

  • Sakina Ali

Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Grant

  • Rebekah Urban

Graduate Proposal Award

  • Haley Conroy

Honorable Mentions

  • Hanson Zhang
  • Andrew Rogers

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Nabeeha Asim
  • Second Place – Vanessa Gamboa
  • Third Place – Jessica Woodford
  • Honorable Mention – Jason Sharp
  • Honorable Mention – Maria Cecilia Montenegro
  • Honorable Mention – Ashlyn Parides

2019

Graduate Research Proposal Award

  • Abigail Hanna Candelari

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – William Archuleta
  • Second Place – Gabriella Gaskin-Cole
  • Third Place – Heidi Ellis

2018

Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Grant

  • Alexis Humenik

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Dalena Lee
  • Second Place – Amy Page
  • Third Place – Ryan Smith

2017

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Dalena Lee
  • Second Place – Laura Farley
  • Third Place – Ashley Geerts

2016

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Rachel Fein
  • Second Place – Ericka Ball
  • Third Place – Jenna Moore

2015

Graduate Research Proposal Award

  • Michelle Clementi

Poster Competition Winners

  • First Place – Karen Michell
  • Second Place – James McGuffin
  • Third Place – Brittany Woolford

2008

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Cassondra Hoskinson – Texas Tech University
    “Mothers' Affect and Children's Internalizing Symptoms: The Role of Children's Effortful Control and Perception of Mothers' Affect”

Graduate Student Research Award

  • Stacey Meier – University of Houston
    “Empirically Validating the Sexual Orientation Subtypes in the DSM-IV-TR for Use in the Female to Male Transexual Population”

  • Aubrey Austin – Texas Tech University
    “The Role of Attachment in the Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence and the Child Functioning”

2007

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

  • Sarah Singletary – Rice University
    “Compensatory Strategies for Reducing Interpersonal Discrimination: The Effectiveness of Acknowledgements, Increased Positivity, and Individuating Information”

Undergraduate Student Research Award

  • Silky Joshi – University of Houston
    “The Effects of Media on Body Satisfaction”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

  • Christopher Harte – University of Texas
    “Acute Nicotine Intake Reduces Physiological but Not Subjective Sexual Arousal in Non-Smoking Women: Results from a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial”

2006

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Annette Kluck
    “Family Factors in the Development of Disordered Eating: Understanding the Dynamic of Behavioral Influences of the Family”

Manuel Ramirez Dissertation Award

  • Gregory Chasson
    “Treatment Attrition with Child Victims of Violence: The Role of Trauma Symptoms and Ethnicity”

Graduate Student Research Award

  • Jessica Gurley – “A Time-Limited Intervention Program for Families of Divorce”

  • Jonathan Horowitz – “Does Overregulation of Emotions Contribute to Anxiety Disorders? An Experimental Investigation of Acceptance and Anxiety”

2005

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Jennifer Boothe
    “Parenting Children with Special Needs: The Couple's Relationship”

Graduate Student Research Award

  • Seong-Hyeon Kim
    “Growth Modeling for Psychological Change of Clients in Nationwide College Counseling Centers”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

  • Crystal Beadle
    “Frontal Lobe Functioning Differences Among Poor, Average, and Above Average Readers”

2004

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

  • Deborah Horn
    “Homosexual Clients: Attitudes of the African American Counselors in Training”

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Catherine Ann Bower and Richard Brian Cano
    “A Comparison of Risk Behaviors and Family Dysfunction Between Divorced and Continuously Married Families”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

  • Cara Santa Maria
    “Investigating Neuropsychological Deficits of Individuals with Alcohol Abuse/Dependency in a Visually Impaired/Blind Population”

2003

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

  • Eden King – Rice University
    “The Best Times, the Worst Times: Dual Perspectives of ‘Coming Out of the Workplace’”

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

  • Emily Young – Texas Tech University
    “Perfectionism, Low Self-Esteem, and Family Factors as Predictors of Bulimic Behavior”

Manuel Ramirez Dissertation Award

  • John Bishop – UTHSCSA
    “The Mental and Physical Well-Being of Formerly Depressed College Students: A Preventative Psychotherapeutic Intervention Study”