Our doctoral students have received much recognition this year for their hard work and accomplishments. From fellowships and research awards to campus honors for teaching and leadership, they’ve been celebrated across many areas. These awards show the important role graduate students play in their fields and in the university community. Join us in congratulating the following students:
- Brooke Sasia was awarded the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Award by the Waisman Center. These competitive awards are given to graduate students working with a Waisman principal investigator and supports research, training, and tuition remission for a nine-month academic year.
- Andrea Stein‘s paper, Computational modeling approaches to emotional development, was chosen as an Editor’s Choice selection by the prestigious journal Developmental Psychology. Says APA’s Chief Science Officer, “Editor’s Choice papers represent the best science in each area of our discipline, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field.”
- Estelle Higgins and Veronika Kobrinsky received pre-doc positions with the Training Program in Emotion Research (TPER) for this fall. Higgins will continue on TPER and Kobrinsky will start her first year on TPER.
- Duncan Cleveland, Kat Swerbenski, and Ezgi Yuksel were selected by their fellow graduate students to receive Psychology Department Distinguished Service Awards for 2025. The Psychology Department Distinguished Service Award recognizes noteworthy service by graduate students that falls outside of their normal research, teaching, and mentoring responsibilities. The winners this year have provided extensive service to the department (e.g., serving as Board of Visitors graduate student representative, PREP mentors, members of various departmental committees), to the community (e.g., playing key roles at various science expos), and to the profession (e.g., as part of various conference committees, promoting and leading a host of anti-racism initiatives such as ALAN, etc.).
- Brooke Sasia and LiChen Dong received Psychology-Psychiatry Summer Fellowships, supporting students with a connection to Psychiatry to support summer research activities.
- Eren Fukuda and Siddharth Suresh received the Marian S. Schwartz Fellowship, supporting graduate student research in cognitive and experimental psychology.
- Jess Mankewitz and Lauren Anthony received the Serendipity Award, providing support during the summer months to exceptional students nominated without their knowledge by a faculty member.
- LiChen Dong and Massendra Musial (Counseling Psychology) received the Department’s TA Awards for outstanding teaching.
- Tracy Carolan (Curriculum and Instruction) received the University’s Capstone Teaching Award, recognition for her service across all of the Department of Psychology’s undergraduate foundation courses, including Introduction to Psychology, Statistics, and Research Methods.