APF awards 13 graduate research scholarships
The American Psychological
Foundation (APF) and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP) presented 13
Graduate Research Scholarships in 2005.
The top winners are:
 Jill Holm-Denoma, recipient of the $3,000 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship.
She is a fifth-year clinical psychology student at Florida State University. Though her primary
research interest is the classification and assessment of eating disorders, she also studies
genetic vulnerabilities of anorexia nervosa and how eating disorders affect racial and ethnic
minorities.
Jennifer Mohawk, the $2,000 Clarence J. Rosecrans Scholarship winner. Mohawk is a sixth-year
graduate student in the biopsychology program at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation
research focuses on interactions between the stress response and circadian rhythms. She aims
to elucidate the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation in modulation of recovery
rate following a shift of the light-dark cycle.
The 11 students who earned $1,000 research scholarships are:
Deann Atchley, a sixth-year neuroscience and psychology student at Florida State University.
His research interests include the influence of serotonin on the development of activity-based
anorexia, an animal model of anorexia and the influence of ovarian hormones on food intake and body
weight regulation in female rats.
Debbie Talmi, a sixth-year cognitive psychology student at the University of Toronto.
Talmi studies memory mechanisms and the effect of emotion on memory through behavior, lesion and
neuroimaging experiments.
Eric D. Jackson, an eighth-year clinical science and cognitive neuroscience student
at the University of Arizona. He established a psychophysiology and psychoneuroendocrinology
lab at the university to investigate his research interests on the development of emotional memories
and conditioned fear, particularly in humans experiencing stress.
Julia Dmitrieva, an eighth-year student in the psychology and social behavior program
at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on adolescent internalizing and
externalizing problem behaviors in the context of immediate social and cultural influences.
Nina Kaiser, a sixth-year clinical psychology student at Purdue University. Her
research focuses on relations among children’s self-perceptions, children’s perceptions
of their peers, childhood externalizing behavior problems and, in particular, the way in which
self-perceptions and self-perceptual accuracy may moderate children’s responses to psychological
treatment.
Karen M. Rodrigue, a sixth-year student at Wayne State University who focuses on cognitive
and social psychology across the lifespan. Her dissertation research uses magnetic resonance
imaging to examine the role of vascular health and microvascular function in age-related decline
in brain structure and cognitive performance.
Kristen M. Kennedy, a fifth-year cognitive and social psychology graduate student
at Wayne State University who studies the cognitive neuroscience of aging. Her dissertation research
examines the relation of the connective white matter fibers in the brain to age differences
in memory and executive functions.
Emily Kuhl, a fourth-year clinical and health psychology student at the University
of Florida specializing in behavioral medicine with an emphasis on working with cardiac patients.
Her dissertation focuses on the effect of a Web-based psychoeducation program for recipients
of implantable cardiac defibrillators.
Ryan Bogdan, a fourth-year clinical psychology student at Harvard University. His
research examines how genetics and stress influence neural and behavioral reward processing.
Sara Chiara Haden, a fifth-year clinical psychology student at Virginia Tech. Her research
focuses on risk and protective factors involved in the development of aggressive behavior in children.
Simine Vazire, a sixth-year graduate student in personality and social psychology
at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research aims to identify the cognitive processes
underlying self- and other-judgment, and examine the motivational and informational sources
of differences between self- and other-perception.
APF invites all graduate departments of psychology in good standing with COGDOP to nominate
candidates each year for these scholarships, which may be used by students to pay for research costs,
travel to a scientific meeting or books and supplies. For more information, visit www.apa.org/apf.
—E. Merck, I. Ramos and E. Packard
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