Past Texas Psychological Foundation Award Winners

The TPF Student Awards, presented by the Texas Psychological Foundation, celebrate the outstanding impact psychology students are making in their communities and on the future of the profession. These awards recognize students who have shown exceptional service, leadership, and commitment to advancing psychological science and practice. All recipients will be honored during the TPA Annual Conference.

2025

• First Place – Mathew Avendaño
• Second Place – Olukemi Dada
• Third Place – Emma Tillery
  

2024

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Maria Ahmed
• Second Place – Da Hwin Kim
• Third Place – Sara Hiller

2023

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Jesse Walker

Manuel Ramirez III Award

• Karina Silva
• Jessica Hernandez Ortiz

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Julia Livingstone
• Second Place – Mary Wilson
• Third Place – Veronika Croan
• Honorable Mention – Ian Scully

2022

Manuel Ramirez III Ethnic Minority Graduate Student for Dissertation

• Jeethu Joseph, PhD

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Noelle Filoteo Young
• Second Place – Joann Chen
• Third Place – Melanie Almaguer

2021

Manuel Ramirez III, Ethnic Minority Graduate Student for Dissertation

• Angelina Mayorga

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Rebekah Urban
• Second Place – Raney Sachs
• Third Place – Rachel E. Dugan
• Peer Award – Summer Ijarah
• Honorable Mention – Jacob Walla

2020

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Research Award

• Sakina Ali

Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Grant

• Rebekah Urban

Graduate Proposal Award

• Haley Conroy

Honorable Mentions

• Hanson Zhang
• Andrew Rogers

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Nabeeha Asim
• Second Place – Vanessa Gamboa
• Third Place – Jessica Woodford
• Honorable Mention – Jason Sharp
• Honorable Mention – Maria Cecilia Montenegro
• Honorable Mention – Ashlyn Parides

2019

Graduate Research Proposal Award

• Abigail Hanna Candelari

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – William Archuleta
• Second Place – Gabriella Gaskin-Cole
• Third Place – Heidi Ellis

2018

Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Grant

• Alexis Humenik

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Dalena Lee
• Second Place – Amy Page
• Third Place – Ryan Smith

2017

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Dalena Lee
• Second Place – Laura Farley
• Third Place – Ashley Geerts

2016

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Rachel Fein
• Second Place – Ericka Ball
• Third Place – Jenna Moore

2015

Graduate Research Proposal Award

• Michelle Clementi

Poster Competition Winners

• First Place – Karen Michell
• Second Place – James McGuffin
• Third Place – Brittany Woolford

2008

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Cassondra Hoskinson – Texas Tech University
  “Mothers' Affect and Children's Internalizing Symptoms: The Role of Children's Effortful Control and Perception of Mothers' Affect”

Graduate Student Research Award

• Stacey Meier – University of Houston
  “Empirically Validating the Sexual Orientation Subtypes in the DSM-IV-TR for Use in the Female to Male Transexual Population”

• Aubrey Austin – Texas Tech University
  “The Role of Attachment in the Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence and the Child Functioning”

2007

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

• Sarah Singletary – Rice University
  “Compensatory Strategies for Reducing Interpersonal Discrimination: The Effectiveness of Acknowledgements, Increased Positivity, and Individuating Information”

Undergraduate Student Research Award

• Silky Joshi – University of Houston
  “The Effects of Media on Body Satisfaction”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

• Christopher Harte – University of Texas
  “Acute Nicotine Intake Reduces Physiological but Not Subjective Sexual Arousal in Non-Smoking Women: Results from a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial”

2006

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Annette Kluck
  “Family Factors in the Development of Disordered Eating: Understanding the Dynamic of Behavioral Influences of the Family”

Manuel Ramirez Dissertation Award

• Gregory Chasson
  “Treatment Attrition with Child Victims of Violence: The Role of Trauma Symptoms and Ethnicity”

Graduate Student Research Award

• Jessica Gurley – “A Time-Limited Intervention Program for Families of Divorce”

• Jonathan Horowitz – “Does Overregulation of Emotions Contribute to Anxiety Disorders? An Experimental Investigation of Acceptance and Anxiety”

2005

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Jennifer Boothe
  “Parenting Children with Special Needs: The Couple's Relationship”

Graduate Student Research Award

• Seong-Hyeon Kim
  “Growth Modeling for Psychological Change of Clients in Nationwide College Counseling Centers”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

• Crystal Beadle
  “Frontal Lobe Functioning Differences Among Poor, Average, and Above Average Readers”

2004

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

• Deborah Horn
  “Homosexual Clients: Attitudes of the African American Counselors in Training”

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Catherine Ann Bower and Richard Brian Cano
  “A Comparison of Risk Behaviors and Family Dysfunction Between Divorced and Continuously Married Families”

Alexander Psychobiology/Psychophysiology Award

• Cara Santa Maria
  “Investigating Neuropsychological Deficits of Individuals with Alcohol Abuse/Dependency in a Visually Impaired/Blind Population”

2003

Roy Scrivner Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Research Award

• Eden King – Rice University
  “The Best Times, the Worst Times: Dual Perspectives of ‘Coming Out of the Workplace’”

Bo and Sally Family Psychology Award

• Emily Young – Texas Tech University
  “Perfectionism, Low Self-Esteem, and Family Factors as Predictors of Bulimic Behavior”

Manuel Ramirez Dissertation Award

• John Bishop – UTHSCSA
  “The Mental and Physical Well-Being of Formerly Depressed College Students: A Preventative Psychotherapeutic Intervention Study”