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

  1. Diversity Research Award: Recognizes outstanding research advancing understanding of diversity in psychology.
  2. Applied Research Award: Recognizes research with practical applications addressing real-world psychological issues and challenges, including community-involved research.
  3. Team Player Award: Celebrates exceptional collaborative research, highlighting teamwork and shared contributions to psychological science, as well as students' research mentorship of peers.
  4. Rising Scholar Award: Acknowledges promising students in their first year of research involvement who demonstrate noteworthy potential in psychological research.

Eligibility

  1. Students must be attending  the GURP 2025 conference to be considered for an award.
  2. 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:

  1. The student information (i.e., name, institution, and email address)
  2. Faculty member’s information (i.e., name, email address, and relationship to the student)
  3. 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:

  1. Strong record of undergraduate research in the category
  2. Potential for significant impact on the field of psychology

Review process:

  1. Two to three reviewers will evaluate each nomination to determine the degree to which they meet the review criteria.
  2. Nominations with the most points across judges will receive the awards.
  3. Awards will be announced and presented at the GURP 2025 conference.
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