APA Convention 2026 | August 6-8 | Washington, D.C.
The following Department of Psychology faculty, postdocs, and students have informed us that they will receive awards or present at the convention. Please visit the APA website for more information, including a complete convention schedule.
APA Award Recipients
Jill Becker: D.O. Hebb Award (Division 6: Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology)
Patrick Grzanka: George A. Miller Award for Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology (Division 1: Society for General Psychology & Interdisciplinary Inquiry), for “The Psychology of Precarity: A Critical Framework” (Blustein, Grzanka, et al., 2025) in American Psychologist
Deborah Rivas-Drake: Mavis Hetherington Award for Excellence in Applied Developmental Science (Division 7: Developmental Psychology)
Deborah Rivas-Drake: Fellow (Division 7: Developmental Psychology)
Leadership Role
Zeinab A. Hachem: Program Co-Chair (Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race)
Speakers, Panelists, and Discussants
Jill Becker: D.O. Hebb Award Lecture: Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Addiction: Lessons From Animal Models
Zeinab Hachem: Seen Yet Invisible: The Paradox of Arab/MENA Students Post-October 7 (Psychological Science in 3 [PS-in-3] Finalist Talk)
Poster Presenters
Aber Abdulle (presenting author) and Germine Awad: Construction & Validation of the MENA Prejudice Scale
Cheyenne M. Garcia (presenting author), Jennafer Birkmeyer, and Margot Kushel: Lifetime Police Encounters Among Older Homeless-Experienced Adults
Jay Seibold, Liz Miller, Leslie Vernon-Dunnigan, and Patrick Grzanka (presenting authors); Hailey Grabowski, Emma Oftedal, and Greta Sonnenschein: “Post-abortion syndrome” and Stigma in Psychology
