Recent Award Recipients
Congratulations to all of our research faculty for their many achievements!
External Award Recipients
September 2024
Norman G. Pauling Early Career Research Fellows: Aleysia Whitmore
Dr. Aleysia Whitmore in the Department of Ethnomusicology has been awarded one of four inaugural Norman G. Pauling Early Career Research Fellows by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Whitmore was selected by their review panel to receive $20,000 to support her project entitled "Resounding Communities: Community Music Making as Civic Engagement."
August 2024
Abidin Early Career Award and Grant: Angela Narayan
Angela Narayan was selected to receive the APA Division 53 Richard 鈥淒ick鈥 Abidin Early Career Award and Grant. This is intended to recognize an early career psychologist who has established a program of empirical research that has had a major impact on the field鈥檚 understanding of psychopathology, prevention, assessment, treatment, or public policy relative to child and adolescent development or mental health. The grant is provided to enhance the awardee鈥檚 research program and/or to enable the awardee to initiate a new effort that extends their work.
August 2024
Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology: Anne DePrince
This award is issued through APA Division 56 and recognizes sustained contributions of leadership in the field of trauma psychology. Anne DePrince has the honor of being selected for this award for the second time as the 2024 recipient. DePrince was also chosen as the 2021 awardee.
August 2024
AWM Service Award: Mei Yin
The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2025 AWM Service
Award will be presented to Mei Yin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, 快活app.
Yin is being recognized for founding and leading the AWM Student Chapter at the University of
Denver for the past nine years, for supporting the AWM Women in Algebraic Combinatorics Research Network, and for her contributions to the NSF ADVANCE grant, Mobilizing Equity to Raise Inclusivity in STEM.
Award will be presented to Mei Yin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, 快活app.
Yin is being recognized for founding and leading the AWM Student Chapter at the University of
Denver for the past nine years, for supporting the AWM Women in Algebraic Combinatorics Research Network, and for her contributions to the NSF ADVANCE grant, Mobilizing Equity to Raise Inclusivity in STEM.
June 2024
Psychonomic Society Early Career Award: Kimberly Chiew
The Psychonomic Society chose Kimberly Chiew to receive their Early Career award for her excellent scientific contributions to the field of cognitive psychology.
May 2024
NSF Career Award: Erica Larson
The Larson Lab team is honored to be awarded an NSF CAREER to study gene regulatory evolution of post-mating prezygotic barriers.
Summer 2024
Fulbright Specialist: Aaron Schneider
For four weeks this summer, Professor Aaron Schneider will be a visiting Fulbright Specialist at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) in Brazil. He鈥檒l work closely with the sociology department to deepen scholarly and student exchange, building on the informal relations that already exist.
April 2024
Review of Research Award: Lolita A. Tabron
The 2024 AERA Review of Research Award was presented to Dr. Lolita A. Tabron and Dr. Amanda K. Thomas (University of the Southern Caribbean) for their article "Deeper than wordplay: A systematic review of critical quantitative approaches in education research (2007-2021)," which was published in the October 2023 issue of Review of Educational Research.
February 2024
Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies
Dr. Joshua C. Wilson, professor and chair of political science, was awarded the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies in Helsinki, Finland.
December 2023
ACOSA Emerging Scholar Award: M贸nica Guti茅rrez
Dr. Guti茅rrez focuses on policies that result in neighborhood displacement and gentrification with particular attention to the impact on Latinx communities.
September 2023
Colorado Authors Hall of Fame: Jeanne Abrams
Abrams was honored for more than just her work as an academic鈥攕he was inducted into the Colorado Authors鈥 Hall of Fame, joining the likes of horror icon Stephen King and the late musician John Denver.
Fall 2023
Emerging Psychologist Award: Pat Garriott
The Committee on Socioeconomic Status (CSES) within the American Psychological Association honored Pat Garriott with their 2023 Emerging Psychologist Leadership Award. This award recognizes the outstanding achievements of psychologists who have made significant contributions to the understanding of socioeconomic status and the lives and well-being of the socioeconomically disadvantaged.
August 2023
Zero-to-Three Emerging Leadership Award: Angela Narayan
The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Emerging Leadership Award recognizes and celebrates a diversity of early- and mid-career leaders engaged in cutting-edge, transformative work to advance IECMH Practice.
May 2023
Humboldt Research Fellowship: Xin Fan
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad to spend extended periods of research in Germany. Xin Fan was chosen for this prestigious award with the support of his collaborator at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The focus of Dr. Fan's research relates to self-spin-orbit torque and using novel methods to build the next generation energy-efficient computer memories.
March 2023
NSF Career Award: Brady Worrell
Research Title: Development of Catalytic, Sulfur-Free Chain Transfer Agents to Improve Mechanical and Material Performance of Crosslinked Photopolymers.
January 2023
American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare Fellow: Jennifer Bellamy
The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) has selected fourteen individuals for induction as Fellows, recognizing their distinguished accomplishments as scholars, practice, and/or policy leaders dedicated to achieving excellence in high-impact work to advance social good. Congratulations to Jenn Bellamy for this achievement!
October 2022
NSF Career Award: Sangho Bok
Research Title: Multiplexing Biomedical Sensor Systems for Automated Diagnosis by Machine Learning.
January 2022
Society for Social Work and Research Fellows: Lisa Reyes Mason and Anamika Barman-Adhikari
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Fellows are members who have served with distinction to advance the mission of the Society 鈥 to advance, disseminate, and translate research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy and promotes a diverse, equitable and just society. Congratulations to Lisa Reyes Mason and Anamika Barman-Adhikari for their induction into the 2022 Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) class of Fellows.
January 2022
NEH Fellowship: Lisa Miracchi Titus
Research Title: New Foundations for the Study of Biological and Artificial Intelligence.