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LIFE AwardsLIFE Fellows 2006–2011

Name Award

Riana Anderson (UVa) Doris Buffett Fellowship, UVa Center for Children, Families, and the Law (2011)

Christopher R. Beam (UVa)

National Research Service Award (NRSA), National Institute on Aging, UVa (2011)

Jessica A. Bernard (UM)

Barbara Perry Roberson Fellowship, UM (2010)Rackham Conference Travel Grant, UM (2010)Barbara A. Oleshansky Memorial Award (2009)Michigan Center for Advancing Safe Transportation Throughout the Lifespan (MCASTL) Student of the Year (2009)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2009)Rackham Conference Travel Grant, UM (2008) Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2008)

Joshua Carp (UM) National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellow (2009)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2009)

Daniel E. Choe (UM) Rackham Conference Travel Grant, UM (2011)Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting Student Travel Award (2011)American Psychological Association Student Travel Award (2010)Summer Institute on Youth Violence Prevention (2010)

William J. Chopik (UM)

SPSP Student Travel Award (2011)NSF Graduate Fellowship (2010-today)Rackham Conference Travel Grant, UM (2010)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2010)Spring/Summer Research Grant, UM (2010)

Miriam K. Depping (UZh)

Graduate Fellowship, Jacobs Foundation (2009–2012)

Jennifer Green (UVa) National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIH (2011–2013) Doris Buffett Fellowship, UVa Center for Children, Families, and the Law (2010)

Nicole Haag (HU) Best of JURE Paper Award, nominee (2011)

Ashley Hazel (UM) African Studies Center International Travel Grant, UM (2011)Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, UM (2011)Rackham International Research Award, UM (2010)Investigating Student Learning Grant, CRLT, UM (2008–2009)Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (2008–2009)Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program Small Grant (2008–2009)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2008)SNRE Thesis and Dissertation Research Funding (2008)Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2008)Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, UM (2007–2009)Natural Resources OPUS Grant (2007)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2007)Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, UM (2007)

Milena Koring (FU) Young Researchers Award, European Health Psychology Society (2009)

Kate R. Kuhlman (UM) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Student Research Award (2011–2012)

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Matthew D. Lerner (UVa)

Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, Department of Psychology, UVa (2011) Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowship, American Psychological Foundation (2011–2012)Graduate Student Achievement Award, Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, APA Division 53 (2011)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2011)SRCD Student Travel Award (2011)APA Dissertation Research Award, American Psychological Association Science Directorate (2010)APA Student Travel Award (2010)APS Student Grant Competition Award, Association for Psychological Science Student Caucus (2010)Doris Buffett Fellowship, UVa Center for Children, Families, and the Law (2010)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2010)APA Early Graduate Student Researcher Award, American PsychologicalAssociation Science Directorate (2009)APS Student Travel Award (2009)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2008)James H. & Elizabeth W. Wright Endowed Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation (2007–2012)

Julie Maslowsky (UM) Fellow, NIMH Family Research Consortium Summer Institute (2011)Community of Scholars Award, UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender (2010)National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIH (2010–2012)Barbara Perry Roberson Research Support Award (2009)Margaret Ayers Host Research Support Award (2009)P.E.O. Scholar Award (2009–2010)Statistics Training Award, ISR, UM (2009)Predoctoral fellowship, UM Addiction Research Center (2006–2008)

Florentina Mattli (UZh) Graduate Fellowship, Jacobs Foundation (2009–2012)

Felicity F. Miao (UVa) Fellow, Summer Institute in Social Psychology (SISP), NSF (2009)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2009)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2008)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2007)Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, UVa (2007)Student Travel Award, Society of Personality and Social Psychology (2007)President’s Fellow, UVa (2006–2010)

Lynn Ossher (UM) Post-Graduate Scholarship (doctoral level), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2011–2014)Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant, finalist (2011)Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Fellowship, nominee (2011)Pillsbury Graduate Research Award (2011)Rackham Graduate Student Travel Grant, UM (2011)Joan Kessler Celebration Award (2010)Post-Graduate Scholarship (master’s level), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2010)Rackham Graduate Student Travel Grant, UM (2010) Rackham International Student Fellowship, UM (2010)

Xingyu Pan (UM) Helen Wu Award, UM (2011)Rackham International Student Fellowship, UM (2011)

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Anne K. Reitz (HU) DAAD travel grant for International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) conference, German Academic Exchange Service (2011) Travel grant, European Association of Developmental Psychology (ECDP) conference, Jacobs Foundation (2011)

Nicolas W. Schuck (HU) Travel grant, Organization of Computational Neuroscience (2010)

Eric D. Smith (UVa) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011)

Jeffrey R. Spies (UVa) Learning Assessment Grants Program, UVa (2011–2012)Doris Buffett Fellowship, UVa Center for Children, Families, and the Law (2010)Teaching and Technology Support Partners Program, UVa (2010–today)Quantitative Training Grant, National Institute on Aging, UVa (2008–2009)

Mané I. Susperreguy (UM)

SRCD Student Travel Award (2011)

Thomas Talhelm (UVa) International Research Travel Support, NSF (2011)Fellow, East Asian and Pacific Summer Institute, NSF (2010)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2010–2014)

Alvin Thomas (UM) Patricia Gurin Research Award (2011)Assembly of Scientist/Practitioner Psychologists (ASPP) Learning APA Governance Award (2010)Summer Research Internship, Institute of Survey Research (2010)Graduate Scholarship, Center for the Education of Women, UM (2009–2010)Rackham Graduate Student Grant, UM (2009) Rackham International Student Fellowship, UM (2009)

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LIFE Alumni (Selection) of Awards 2002–2011

Name Award

Joaquin A. Anguera UCSF Institutional Research and Career Development Award (2010–2012)Minority postdoctoral supplement for underrepresented minorities, NIH (2009–2010)

Ladina Bezzola Best Poster Award, 6th LizentiandInnen- und DoktorandInnen-Kongress, UZh (2008)

Yvonne Brehmer Otto Hahn Group, Max Planck Society (2008)Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society (2008)

Timothy R. Brick Best Poster Award in Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Pan-University Poster Competition at UVa (2011)President’s Fellow, UVa (2007–2011)

Annette Brose Research cooperation grant, German Science Foundation (DFG), for collaboration with Prof. David M. Almeida, Pennsylvania State University (2008)Student scholarship, 5th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD), Pennsylvania State University (2007)

Agniezska Z. Burzynska

Educational stipend for the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Stockholm (2010)Full grant, German Science Foundation (DFG), for the ISMRM Meeting, Honolulu (2009)ISMRM student stipend, for “Pathogenesis and Mechanisms of White Matter Injury” Workshop, Krakow (2008)

Jerel P. Calzo Pediatric Loan Repayment Program, NIH (2011–2013)Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIH (2010–2013)

Rona Carter Elizabeth Douvan Junior Scholar Fund in Life Course Development, Institute for Social Research, UM (2010)

Jaap J. A. Denissen ISSBD Young Scientist Award (2010)

Reinhard Drobetz Research grant, Jacobs Foundation (2010) Short Term Mentorships Abroad grant, UZh (2010)

Natalie C. Ebner Michael L. & Judith D. Woodruff Research Competition, Department of Psychology, University of Florida (2011–2012)Postdoctoral fellowship, German Science Foundation (DFG) (2007)Heinz-Heckhausen-Jungwissenschaftlerpreis (Young Research Scientist Award), German Psychological Association (2006)

Andrea G. Eckhardt Postdoctoral fellowship, Robert-Bosch-Stiftung (2009–2011)

Ryne Estabrook Maury Pathfinder Prize for best predissertation project, Department of Psychology, UVa (2009)Huskey Research Prize, Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition, UVa (2008)

Yana Fandakova DAAD travel grant for the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, German Academic Exchange Service (2011)

Katherine L. Fiori Scholarship, RAND Summer Institute (2008)GSA Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Student Research Award (2007)Retirement Research Foundation Completed Research Award, APA Division 20, Honorable Mention (2006)AARP Scholars’ Program (2005–2006)Daniel Katz Dissertation Fellowship (2005–2006)

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Kristin E. Flegal P.E.O. Scholar Award (2010)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (2010, 2008)Barbara Perry Roberson Fellowship (2009)Barbara A. Oleshansky Memorial Award (2008)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2008, 2007) COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship, American Psychological Foundation (2007)

Robert Gaschler Dissertationspreis Adlershof, HU (2010)

Jesse Graham SPSSI Dissertation Award, finalist (2011)UVa Faculty Senate Dissertation Fellowship (2009)Morton Deutsch Award for best 2007 paper published in Social Justice Research (2008)UVa Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences (2008)Huskey Research Prize, Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition, UVa (second place 2007, first place 2009) SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award (runner up 2006, first place 2007)UVa Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Education Sciences (2007–2009)Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship (2005–2007)

Igor Grossmann Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2011)Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, UM (2011)APS RiSE-UP Research Award, Association for Psychological Science (2010, 2008)Daniel Katz Dissertation Fellowship in Psychology, UM (2010)Science Editor’s Choice article (2010)Philip Brickman Memorial Prize, UM (2009)Individual Fellowship, International Institute, UM (2007)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2007)Research Grant, German National Academic Foundation (2006)DAAD Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (2005–2006) Max-Kade Scholarship, UM (2005–2006)Congress Poster Award, European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (2005)

Michaela Gummerum University of Plymouth Enterprise Award for Early Career Researcher (2011)Postdoctoral fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (2005–2007)

Jung-Hwa Ha Faculty Scholar, Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative Hartford Foundation (2009–2011)

K. Paige Harden Thompson Award, Behavior Genetics Association (2007)

Bettina von Helversen Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society (2008)

Marie Hennecke Postdoctoral fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (2012–2014)Scholarship for prospective researchers of the Swiss National Science Foundation for a research stay at UVa (2010)Second Poster Award, 10th Congress of the Swiss Psychological Society (2007)

Gizem Hülür Third Poster Prize, International Conference on Aging & Cognition (2010)

Justin Jager Postdoctoral fellow, Intramural Research Trainee Award (2009–today)Daniel Katz Dissertation Fellow (2006–2007)Roger Brown Research Award (2006)

Fanny V. Jimenez Science Journalism Stipend, “Initiative Wissenschaftsjournalismus,” TU Dortmund (2010–2011)

Kathrin Jonkmann Student Research Excellence Award, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (2007)

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Stanley O. King II Graduate internship, UVa Patent Foundation (2008–2010)Graduate fellowship, Dean of Arts and Sciences, UVa (2008–2009)Predoctoral fellowship, Diversity Program in Neuroscience, American Psychological Association (2006–2008)

Leah Kokinakis Barbara Perry Roberson Fellowship (2010)Psychology Dissertation Grant (2010)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (2010)Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2009)Graduate Seminar on Global Transformations Fellowship (2008)

Dana Kotter-Grühn Postdoctoral fellowship, German Science Foundation (DFG) (2008–2010)

Xuezhao Lan Rackham Detached Study Fellowship, UM (2009)Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, UM (2009) Barbour Scholarship, UM (2008–2009)U.S.-China Cross-Cultural Research Grant Culture & Immigration (2008–2009) Culture & Inhibition (2007–2008) Executive Function (2007–2008)Rackham Graduate Student Grant, UM (2008)

Jonathan D. Lane Predoctoral fellowship, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, UM (2010)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention (2007)

Christina K. Limbird Junior Researcher Award, German Psychological Association, Section for Educational Psychology (2003)

Nicole M. Lindner Dissertation fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, UVa (2009)

Joshua C. Magee Loan Repayment Pogram for Clinical Research, NIH (2011–today)Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences & Engineering, UVa (2009)

Anna Mascherek Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) (2011)

Jutta Mata Postdoctoral fellowship, German Science Foundation (DFG) (2009–2010)Postdoctoral fellowship, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2008–2009)

Rui Mata Seed grant, Stiftung Suzanne und Hans Biäsch zur Förderung der Angewandten Psychologie (2010)Seed grant, Stanford Longevity Center (2009)Postdoctoral fellowship, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2007)Postdoctoral fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (2006)

Emily E. Messersmith Founders Predoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Social Research, UM (2006–2007)

Ana Sofia Morais Postdoctoral fellowship, MaxNetAging Research School (2012–2014)

Moyra E. Mortby Fellowship for a research stay at UM, UZh (2009)

Maida Mustafic Graduate Fellowship, Forschungskredit, UZh (2008–2012)

Gabriel Nagy Ernst Meumann Early Career Award, Working Group for Empirical Educational Research (2010)Junior Researcher Award, German Psychological Association, Section for Educational Psychology (2005)

Wiebke Neberich Best Paper Award, 4th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (2008)Best Poster Award, 14th European Conference on Personality (2008)

Pablo A. Nepomnaschy

Distinguished Dissertation Award, UM (2005)Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, UM (2005)Rackham Special One-Term Fellowship, UM (2003)The Buffalo Award for Science and Nature, UM (2002)Founders Predoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Social Research, UM (2002)

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Nicola J. Newton Elizabeth Douvan Junior Scholar Fund in Life Course Development, Institute for Social Research, UM (2011)

Jennifer O’Neil Psychology of Black Women Graduate Student Research Award, APA Division 35, Section 1 (2011)Graduate Student Diversity Programs Service Award, UVa (2010)Sage Student Research Award, Association of Black Psychologists (2010)Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association (2009)Psychology of Black Women Graduate Student Research Award, APA Division 35, Section 1 (2009)

Lars Penke Award for the best publication in the European Journal of Personality based on a PhD thesis for "The evolutionary genetics of personality" by Penke, Denissen, & Miller (2007)

Lisa Pfahl T. H. Marshall Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation (2010) Young Scholar Award for the best dissertation of 2008–2010, German Sociological Association’s Sociology of Education Section (2010)

Nilam Ram Faculty Fellow, Pennsylvania State University (2009–2010)Young Scholar, Workshop on Advancing Inter-American Collaboration in Human Development Research, Methodology, and Training, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (2007)American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award (2005–2006) Dissertation fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, UVa (2005–2006)

Fernando Rodriguez Sweetland/Rackham Dissertation Writing Institute Award, UM (2011)Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, UM (2010)

Christina Röcke Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) (2009) Retirement Research Foundation Award for Completed Postdoctoral Research, APA Division 20 (2008)

Ina Schöllgen Margret and Paul Baltes Award for outstanding dissertations in developmental psychology, German Psychological Society (2011)

Natalie Schüz Poster Award, European Health Psychology Society (2010) Presentation Award, Health Psychology Division, German Psychological Society (2010)

Yee Lee Shing Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society (2009) Postdoctoral fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2008–2009)

Karen L. Siedlecki First-Year Faculty Research Grant, Fordham University (2010–2011)Virginia Association on Aging Outstanding Gerontology Doctoral Student Scholarship (2005)Award for Completed Master’s Research, APA Division 20 (2004)

Amanda R. W. Steiner American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women Education Foundation (2009–2010)Dissertation year fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, UVa (2009–2010)Distinguished teaching fellowship, Department of Psychology, UVa (2009–2010)Becky Boone Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Psychology, UVa (2009)Dissertation Grant Award, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association (2009)Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Grant, finalist (2009)Graduate research grant, Psi Chi National Psychology Honors Society (2009) RAND Summer Institute, participant, Center for the Study of Aging, Santa Monica (2009)

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Viola S. Störmer Fellow, Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, UC Davis/UC Santa Barbara (2011)

Elisabeth R. Tenney Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences, UVa (2011)Dissertation Research Award, American Psychological Association (2011)Dissertation year fellowship, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, UVa (2010–2011)Maury Pathfinder Award for best master’s thesis in psychology, UVa (2008)

Yi-Miau Tsai Postdoctoral fellowship, Jacobs Foundation (2009–2012)

Elliot M. Tucker-Drob Retirement Research Foundation Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, APA Division 20 (2008)Maury Pathfinder Award for best master’s thesis in psychology, UVa (2008)John B. Carroll Award for Best Research Methodology, International Society for Intelligence Research (2006)

Rebecca L. Utz Superior Teaching Award, University of Utah (2010)Roberta G. Simmons Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Section (2005)Society for the Study of Social Problems Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (2005)Distinguished Dissertation Award, UM (2004)

Maja Wiest Second Poster Prize, Summer School “Healthy Aging —Individual and Social Challenges,” Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg (2009)

Andreas Wilke Margo Ings Wilson Award for best publication in Evolution and Human Behavior (2010)Best Postdoctoral Researcher Award, 21st Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (2009)Owen F. Aldis Scholarship Fund, International Society for Human Ethology (2005)Linda Mealey Young Investigator Award, 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology (2004)

Nicole Zarrett (UM) Mortar Board Honor Society Excellence in Teaching Award, University of South Carolina (2009)NICHD/NIH Research Fellow, NICHD/NIH Summer Institute in Applied Research on Child Development (2007)