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CRF Announces 2023 Student Research Awards Recipients

Meet our newest student awards recipients and learn about their research.

The Center for Research on Families recognizes the importance of supporting family researchers at all stages of their careers and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our competitive program recognizes outstanding students, from a broad range of departments and disciplines, who are conducting research on issues related to families. 

Since it's inception in 2010, the Student Research Awards program has awarded over $479,150 to 189 students in support of their research efforts and assisted them to present their findings at professional meetings and conferences throughout the world. 

This year's student awardees are among one of the largest cohorts we have recognized and are addressing family challenges such as the political lives of Black young adults, intergenerational differences in the causes of loneliness in Cambodian Americans, risk factors for suicidal thoughts in ethnoracially minoritized college students, and ownership and reuse of historic buildings in Colonial Delhi.

CLICK ON THE STUDENT'S NAME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH


DISSERTATION AWARD RECIPIENTS

 

Marielena Barbieri

PhD Candidate, Developmental Psychology

 

 

 

 

Christina Bertrand

PhD Candidate, Developmental Psychology 

 

 

 

 

Grace Y. Cho

PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology

 

 

 

 

Mélise Edwards 

PhD Candidate, Neuroscience and Behavior

 

 

 

 

Ragini Jha

PhD Candidate, History

 

 

 

 

Karl Lyn

PhD Candidate, Afro-American Studies

 

 

 

 

Manasa Kalanadhabhatta

PhD Candidate, Computer Science

 

 

 

 

Joshua Mogus

PhD Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences

 

 

 

 

Mousa Moradi

PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

 

 

 

 

Luz Maria Sanchez

PhD Candidate, Political Science

 

 

 

 


COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESEARCH AWARD RECIPIENT

Eleni Kapoulea

PhD Candidate, Clinical Psychology

 

 

 

 


UNDERGRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENT

Charlotte Gridley

Undergraduate, Environmental Science

 

 

 

 


METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Shivangi Bajpai 

PhD Candidate, Kinesiology

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Delorme 

PhD Candidate, Community Health Education

 

 

 

 

Yelim Hong 

PhD Candidate, Developmental Psychology

 

 

 

 


TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Khadijat Adeleye

PhD Candidate, Nursing

 

 

 

 

Arpita Biswas

PhD Candidate, Economics

 

 

 

 

Sarah Dickinson

PhD Candidate, Neuroscience and Behavior

 

 

 

 

Lingsong Kong

PhD Candidate, Kinesiology

 

 

 

 

Anamika Sen

PhD Candidate, Economics

 

 

 

 


CRF is an endowed interdisciplinary research center of the UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. CRF’s programs provide lectures and consultation from national experts, methodological training and expertise, grant-writing support and research funding to faculty and students from these diverse backgrounds at all stages of their academic careers. CRF is committed to investing in each faculty member and student’s research career for the long term.

For more information on the Family Research Scholars Program or the Center for Research on Families, please contact Associate Director Gisele Litalien at glitalien@umass.edu or (413) 545-2335.