Research Awards

Best Poster Research Methods | Poster
Giselle Rodriguez-Chavez & Fernanda Moralez-Calva
Stress Across Cultures: The Cognitive Cost in the Latinx Community

Best Poster Research Findings | Poster
Nicolas Lucio
Exploring Predictors of Health Perception: A Statistical Analysis of Behavioral, Psychological and Socioeconomic Factors

Best Poster [Visualization] Presentation | Poster
Isabella Gonzalez
Examining Factors Impacting Educational Attainment

Alexandra Xu and Ellie Jung
Here’s some advice, Check It Twice: Exploring Two-Fold Intervention to Motivate Ballot Error Detection

Best Overall Poster | Poster
Ahi Ajayan
Assessing the Impact of Gender and Anxiety Levels on Emotional Memory

Best Methodological Approach | Oral Presentation
Somya Mittal
Understanding Sarcasm Requires Theory of Mind after Acute Stroke

Abhinav Kona
Less is Better: A Cognitively Inspired Unsupervised Model for Language Segmentation

Best Research Findings | Oral Presentation
Jacob Buergler
Differential Affective and Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal Strategies

Best Overall Presentation | Oral Presentation
Andrew Kim
Veneration vs. Respect: Reevaluating Public Aversion to Amending the U.S. Constitution

Best Research Methodology | Poster
Jacob Buergler
Emotion Regulation and Mnemonic Discrimination in Depression

Best Poster Research Findings | Poster
Elisabeth Torres-Schulte
Beyond Exorcism: Novel Understandings of Mental Illness Through Catholic Art

Best Poster Communication | Poster
Shivani Gollapudi
Community Responses to Environmental Risk in Houston's Fifth Ward Cancer Cluster

Best Research Methodology | Oral Presentation
Skye Fredericks
Sex, Gender, and the Performance of Care in Community Harm Reduction for Skid Row, Los Angeles

Best Research Findings | Oral Presentation
Brandon Frizzell
Mi casa es tu casa: Investigating Cohabitation and Inflation Rates in Gran Buenos Aires

Best Delivery and Presentation | Oral Presentation
Sophia Peng
Community-Making Among First Generation Chinese Immigrants in Houston’s Chinese Community Center

• Sydney Coldren * - Constructing Malnutrition: Dams, Technoscience, and Food Aid in Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Morgan McMains-Nurisio - Crimmigration, Criminal Labeling, and Executions: The Media’s Portrayal of Executed Foreign Nationals Over Time
• Phoenix Orta - Cattle on the Border of New Spain: Faunal Analysis of Mission Dolores de los Ais
• Sumin Yoon - Gifted Care: Reconfiguring HIV/AIDS Caregiving in the Post-Treatment Era
• Megan McDonald - Foodscapes in the Lone Star State: Exploring Food Access on Texas College Campuses

• Jacob Buergler - Emotion Dysregulation Associated with Greater Depressive Symptoms and Memory for Details
• Aditi Velgekar (with Fernanda Morales-Calva, Michelle Sekili) – The Effects of Attention and Learning on Episodic Memory Performance

• Ashley Fitzpatrick* – Senior Student Experiences with Egg Donation: A Qualitative Study on Agency, Mental Health, and Financial Circumstance
• Charlotte Hirsch - Senior Generic-You as a Linguistic Mechanism of Psychological Distancing
• Dylan Nguyen - Like a Good Neighbor, Nonprofits Are (Sometimes) There: Neighborhood Transformation and Nonprofit Organizations