Undergraduate Student Awards at RMPA  

Poster Award:

International Perspectives Poster Award

Research addressing international issues of all kinds, with student’s as the first author, will be placed in an international perspectives poster session and judged during the poster session. Award winners, based on the quality of their presentations at the conference, will be announced at RMPA’s business meeting on Saturday, April 6, and each winning submission will receive $100.The first author must be a student, and poster submissions for this award MUST have “Cross-cultural Psychology/International Perspectives” as Topic Area #1 in their submission. 

Congratulations to the 2019 Award Winners:

  • Rasha Kandlur, Srishti Sardana, Randalal Richardson-Vejlgaard, Teachers college, Columbia University “Visible distress of invisible female farmers: a qualitative compendium on suicide risk mitigation strategies and psychological well being

Oral Presentation Awards: 


Undergraduate and graduate students who are doing oral presentations may ask to be considered for ONE of the following awards.

RMPA Undergraduate Research Award


RMPA selects up to 4 student presentations to receive either the RMPA Student Award or the RMPA Student Diversity Award. For each of these student awards, the first author of the presentation must be an undergraduate student, and no faculty authors are allowed. Based on the information provided in the conference submission, student award finalists will be selected. These finalists must give their oral presentation during the special convention sessions set aside for RMPA award finalists in order to be considered for the award. Up to 2 of the 4 awards can be diversity awards, and the RMPA Diversity Council Chair determines which, if any, of the 4 awards will be Diversity Awards, based on the topic of the presentation. Award winners, based on the quality of their presentations at the conference, will be announced at RMPA’s business meeting on Saturday, April 6, and each winning submission will receive $250.

Previous Student Recipients:

2024:

  • Ella Sheppard (Timonthy Lawson, Faculty Sponsor): Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Auditory Hallucinations: Meta Analysis and Review

  • Natalie Johnson, Madeline Adair, Josi Kelsey, and Lindsay Johnson (Robert Wright, Faculty Sponsor): Mindful Strides: Improving Athletic Performance with Associative Attention

  • Skyler Brough, Josh Castro, McKenna Osbourne, and Lindsay Johnson (Robert Wright, Faculty Sponsor): First Semester Freshman Health and Behavior Shifts Throughout COVID-19

2023:

  • Sara Hobbs, Madison Barber, Lexie Allen, Shannon Myuers, Alden Gruidel, Jenny Valadez Fraire, Peyton Stiener, Madison Murdock, Devon Rapken, Jackeline Martinez Haro, Lauren Lobsinger, Julia Sickery, Catherine Martin, “The Impact of Politically Charged News on Psychological and Psychosocial Stress”, MSUD.

  • Alyssa Banister, Brittany Lynner, Hannah Finach, Olivia Dentry, “When does Involvement become Too Much? A New Scale to Measure Undergraduate Student Overinvolvement.” Colorado State University.

  • Rachel Umphress, Zoe Macia, and Eduardo Duran, “The Impact of Form in Intimate Partner Violence on Others’ Perceptions of the Victim and Abuser”, Brigham Young University.