Awards

❖ Select Student Awards ❖

2024 FIU Psychology Graduate Student Awards

Developmental Psychology Ph.D. student Randi Spiker was a double winner at the 2024 FIU Psychology Graduate Student Awards. She received BOTH the Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Service Awards!

2022 FIU Outstanding Student Life Awards

PWR Lab undergrad RA Letizia D’Avenia winning the 2022 Outstanding Student Leadership Award!

 

2019 APA Student Awards

I-O Ph.D. student Anna Kallschmidt being awarded the the 2019 Committee on Socioeconomic Status Award for Student Leadership on behalf of the American Psychological Association (APA)

2018 APA Student Awards

Developmental Psychology Ph.D. student Yanet Ruvalcaba receives the 2018 Student Scholar Latina Award from APA Division 35 at the annual APA Conference in San Francisco, CA.

2018 Outstanding Student Awards at FIU

Developmental Psychology Ph.D. student Jessica Saunders is recognized as a finalist for the Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award at FIU.

2018 GSAW Awards Ceremony

Ph.D. student Yanet Ruvalcaba wins a first place award for her oral presentation “Nonconsensual porn (aka “revenge porn”) among U.S. adults: Victimization, perpetration, and health correlates” at the 2018 GSAW Scholarly Forum.

2017 CASE Awards

All the PWR Lab RAs graduating in Spring 2017 won awards at the CASE Award Ceremony!

Hannah Schindler, “seen” on the left, received an Academic Achievement Award in Psychology.

Darlene Carmichael (middle) received an Exemplary Service Award in Psychology.

On the right, Kirby Suarez also celebrates an Academic Achievement Award in Psychology.

2017 Lavender Graduation Awards

Ph.D. student Renzo Javier Barrantes accepting the LGBTQA Researcher of the Year Award from the 2017 Lavender Graduation and Recognition dinner, organized as part of the the LGBTQA Initiative in FIU’s Multicultural Programs & Services department.

2017 GSAW Awards Ceremony

Ph.D. student Jessica Saunders accepts a second place award for her oral presentation “The role of social media usage in the sociocultural model of disordered eating” at the 2017 GSAW Scholarly Forum.

2016 Janet Hyde graduate student research grant

Jessica Faye Saunders, a 4th year Ph.D. student in developmental science working in the PWR Lab accepts the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Div. 35) Janet Hyde graduate student research grant (with Janet Hyde!). This $500 award will go towards funding Jessica’s dissertation “Individual differences in women’s eating disorder recovery trajectories: The role of social-cognitive factors.” The Hyde Award is among the most coveted awards in the area of gender and psychology for graduate students. See more HERE.

2016 Faculty Senate Mentoring Award

PWR Lab members and alumni representing at FIU Faculty Convocation 2016 for Dr. Eaton’s Mentoring and Advising Award

2016 CASE Awards

FIVE of the PWR Lab RAs winning awards at the 2016 CASE Award Ceremony in 2016! From left to right…

(1) Vanessa Yanek winning the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Women’s and Gender Studies

(2) Audrey Aradanas winning the Exemplary Service Award in Women’s and Gender Studies

(3) Yanet Ruvalcaba winning the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Psychology

(4) Britany Priore winning the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Psychology

(5) Michael Powell winning the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Psychology and in Women’s and Gender Studies

2015 SMA Consortia

Undergraduate Caressa Rolle and Ph.D. student Renzo Barrantes at the Southern Management Association (SMA) 2015 Annual Meeting for the the pre-doctoral and late doctoral consortia

Elaine Gordon Scholarships 2015

Undergraduate students Natalia Guitierriez (left) and Michael Powell (right) accept the Elaine Gordon Scholarship Awards for 2015 with their advisor Dr. Eaton (center). This represents the first time two Elaine Gordon Scholarships were given out in the same year!

The Elaine Gordon Scholarship Committee along with this year’s winners and Drs. Eaton and Darici.

For more information on the scholarship see: http://womenstudies.fiu.edu/academics/scholarship-opportunities/

2015 College Awards

Natalia Gutierrez winning the Academic Achievement Award in Women’s and Gender Studies for 2015

2015 Louse P. Mills Award

Noelle Mendez received the Louse P. Mills Award, given to a student from the Women’s Commission at the University of Miami. It honors students who have shown exceptional leadership in women’s issues and the promotion of gender equality!

2015 McNair Undergraduate Fellows

Yanet Ruvalcaba and Vanessa Yanek at the McNair Induction Ceremony

2015 Outstanding Student Awards at FIU

Left: Undergraduate psychology student Michael Powell is recognized as a finalist for the Outstanding Junior Leadership Award at FIU

Right: I/O psychology Ph.D. student Vanessa Quiroz is recognized as a finalist for the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award at FIU

Whoot whoo! PWR Lab representing!

FIU World’s Ahead Award 2014

Jordan Guedes graduates as a “World’s Ahead Scholar” in summer 2014 at FIU.

See more: HERE

FIU McNair Award 2012

Vanessa Quiroz accepts the second-place award for her work as a McNair Fellow