W.B Pillsbury Prize
Helen Devine obtained her Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience B.S. with Honors, for her thesis titled "Keep Your Friends Close and Your Phones Closer: Examining the Impact of Close Others on Compliance with Consent Requests," under the mentorship of Amie Gordon.
Jacob Lentz obtained his Psychology B.A. with Honors, for his thesis titled "Adolescent Sleep Quality, Structural Network Connectivity, and Young Adult Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study," under the mentorship of Christopher Monk.
Louis Bernstein Undergraduate Psychology Research Award
Nagham El Droubi is majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, and completing an Honors thesis under the mentorship of Joanna Mattis and Krystal Santiago Colon focusing on the connection between serotonergic neurons and Dravet Syndrome.
Runners Up
Anne Rudo Memorial Award
Megan Pham is majoring in Neuroscience. Anna works with Angela Hospice as a hospice volunteer, and is working toward becoming a physician assistant.
Katrina Pursche is majoring in Biomolecular Science and Psychology and is a volunteer with CS Mott Children's Hospital in the Congenital Heart Center's Neurodevelopment Team's "Book Babies" Program.
Anna Rimatzki is majoring in Neuroscience. Anna works with Angela Hospice as a hospice volunteer, and is working toward becoming a physician assistant.
Martha Muenzer Memorial Awards
Mariana Bowring is majoring in Psychology and minoring in Gender, Race & Nation and will be working on her thesis under the mentorship of Gigi Awad, studying how pregnancy stress is related to mental health, assessing differences across gender and social class.
Judy Zhu is majoring in Psychology and Cognitive Science and minoring in User Experience Design. Judy will be working on her thesis under the guidance of Susan Gelman, studying how adolescents' perceptions of their parents' beliefs influence their social and emotional development.
Al and Barbara Cain Living Memorial Award
Sanzida Chowdhury
Sanzida graduated Winter 2024 with a B.S. in Psychology with Honors.
Thesis: "Revisiting The Past: Examining Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Links to Adult Relationship Trust, Vulnerability, Communication, Satisfaction, And Loneliness"
Mentor: Lorraine Gutierrez
Yiran Du
Yiran graduated Winter 2024 with a B.A. in Psychology with Honors.
Thesis: “Media Pressure and Internalization of Beauty Norm: Examining the Interactions of Media Pressures and Internalization of Aesthetic Beauty Norms in Relation to Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating in Asian American Women"
Mentor: Gigi Awad
Tanner Memorial Award
Zoe Bernardi
Zoe is majoring in Psychology BA and is in the Honors Thesis Program.
Thesis: “From the little pond to the Great Lakes: Big-Fish syndrome in gifted and talented students at the University of Michigan"
Mentor: Cindy Lustig
Astrid Hurtado
Astrid is majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience BS and is in the Honors Thesis Program.
Thesis: "How Children Learn with Artificial Intelligence: A Study of Dialogic Story Listening"
Mentors: Ioulia Kovelman & Ying Xu
Lorraine Nadelman Honors Thesis Award in Developmental Psychology
Sanzida Chowdhury
Sanzida graduated Winter 2024 with a B.S. in Psychology with Honors.
Thesis: “Revisiting The Past: Examining Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Links to Adult Relationship Trust, Vulnerability, Communication, Satisfaction, And Loneliness"
Mentor: Lorraine Gutierrez
Edward Chang Diversity Research Award
Ashna Mehra
Ashna graduated Winter 2024 with a BS in Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience and Spanish with Honors.
Thesis: “Do people change the way they speak when they talk to you? A study of Chinese and Spanish-speakers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards Foreigner Talk"
Mentor: Susan Gelman
