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June 2010

The Social Psychology Club reinstituted the end of the year club awards that were created in the 2007-2008 academic year. This year's club awards had three categories: Service Award, Mentor Award, and Spirit Award. Each award was intented to represent a different area of positive contribution to the club and the students in the Social Psychology program. Possible recipients were nominated by their peers, who had the opportunity to write a brief statement detailing how the nominee had made an impact on their experience in the club. Winners were chosen based on the content of the statements, which were reviewed by a committee of graduate students (who were not nominated for an award and had not themselves nominated another student) and the faculty advisor for the club. This year's winners were:

Service Award: Dana Weiser
Mentor Award: Jenny Lowman
Student Spirit Award: Angela Broadus

Several students were nominated for the awards, each of which received an honorable mention.

Service honorable mention: Val Lykes, Vicky Springer
Mentor honorable mention: Camille Brown, Lyssette Chavez and Josh Padilla
Student spirit honorable mention: Janice Russell, Lorie Sicafuse and Alex Sigillo

April 2010

The UNR Graduate Student Association held its annual awards ceremony, which once again featured outstanding students from Social Psychology. Of the university-wide top 10 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards given out this year, four went to Social Psychology: Camille Brown, Robyn Maitoza, Vicky Springer, and Irem Uz (each receiving a $650 scholarship). Ada Diaconu-Muresan was recognized as an Outstanding International Graduate Student ($1,000 scholarship). Kristy Cahoon and Irem Uz tied for second place in the Paper Competition in the Liberal Arts / Education / Business / Journalism division and Irem Uz was also honored with a first place award in the Poster Competition, also in the Liberal Arts / Education / Business / Journalism division ($650 scholarship). Congratulations to our outstanding students!

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