AWARD DETAILS
The Department of Psychology will offer one $300 Grand Prize Award for the best psychology poster. In addition, two $100 specialty awards will be offered: The Innovation Award will be given to a poster demonstrating a particularly novel research question, methodology, and/or application; and the Methodological Excellence Award will recognize exemplary practices in replicability, transparency, and/or open science. Judging will be performed by psychology researchers (i.e., Psychology faculty, post docs, graduate students, and research associates affiliated with the UO).
2022 AWARD RECIPIENTS
$300 Grand Prize Award
- Serena Agterberg "Perceptions of Risky Sexual Behaviour"
$100 Innovation Award
- Nayantara Arora "Does the breathing cycle modulate the orientation of our attention?"
$100 Methodological Excellence Award
- Sage Rezner "The Effect of College Attendance on Personality Development Trajectories"
2021 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Best Psychology Poster Award
$100 Award
- Youri Benadjaoud "Disentangling neural activation to self and others using structural connectivity"
- Bridgette Bammann "Who are these Virtue Signalers Anyway?: Answers from a Sustainable Transportation Survey"
- Anastasia Browning "Leveraging Evidence-Based Messaging to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19"
Award specific Eligibility criteria
- Open to current UO undergraduate students who are conducting research in a lab run by a psychology department faculty member.
- The award recipients must be accepted to and present at the UO 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
- A pdf version of the digital poster must be submitted no later than May 17 to be eligible for judging (submission link will be provided to symposium registrants).
Award AMOUNTs
One (1) $300 Award
One (1) $100 Innovation Award
One (1) $100 Methodological Excellence Award
Sponsorship
Department of Psychology