Student Awards
Faculty mentors/supervisors/professors can nominate their students for four research-related awards. Award winners will receive cash and be recognized at the GURP 2025 conference.
Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm EDT.
Award Categories
- Diversity Research Award: Recognizes outstanding research advancing understanding of diversity in psychology.
- Applied Research Award: Recognizes research with practical applications addressing real-world psychological issues and challenges, including community-involved research.
- Team Player Award: Celebrates exceptional collaborative research, highlighting teamwork and shared contributions to psychological science, as well as students' research mentorship of peers.
- Rising Scholar Award: Acknowledges promising students in their first year of research involvement who demonstrate noteworthy potential in psychological research.
Eligibility
- Students must be attending the GURP 2025 conference to be considered for an award.
- Nominations should come from faculty mentors/members who have close knowledge of the student's research involvement.
Nomination Process
To nominate a student, the faculty member must provide:
- The student information (i.e., name, institution, and email address)
- Faculty member’s information (i.e., name, email address, and relationship to the student)
- Nomination information (i.e., identify the award for which the student is most deserving and explain why in no more than 2,000 characters)
* You must repeat these steps for each student, or if you would like to nominate the same student for multiple awards.
Nomination Review Process
Review criteria: Nominees will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Strong record of undergraduate research in the category
- Potential for significant impact on the field of psychology
Review process:
- Two to three reviewers will evaluate each nomination to determine the degree to which they meet the review criteria.
- Nominations with the most points across judges will receive the awards.
- Awards will be announced and presented at the GURP 2025 conference.