2011/2012 Graduate Student Trainee Award Winners
National
- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, IOG student representative – Ana Daugherty
- Carroll l. Estes Prize from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) – Elham Mahmoudi
- Dissertation Fellowship Award, Boston College Center for Retirement Research/Social Security Admin. – Elham Mahmoudi
- Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Junior Scholar Award for Senior Service – Elham Mahmoudi
Regional
- Charles Matthews Award, Pre-doctoral Research in Neuropsychology, Midwest neuropsychology Group, Chicago – Annalise Rahman
Wayne State University
- Behavioral and Cognitive neuroscience Student Representative – Ana Daugherty
- Elizabeth Olson Award for Best Written Paper in Gerontology – Jinghua Huang, Ph.D.
- Graduate Student President, IOG – Ana Daugherty
- Norine Johnson Scholarship Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Practicum Training and Clinical Service – Daniel Paulson
- Samuel M. levin Economics Award for the Year’s Best Paper on Economics – Elham Mahmoudi
IOG Poster Session Juried Award
- First Place, Graduate Poster Session, Department of Psychology – Andrew Bender
- First Place, Research on Changing Racial and Ethnic Disparities
- WSU Inaugural Graduate Exhibition – Elham Mahmoudi
2010 Fall poster session Winners:
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First Place – A Combined Effect of Elevated Pulse Pressure and
- ApoE e4 Genotype on Recognition Memory – Andrew Bender
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Second Place – Changing Racial/
- Ethnic Disparities in Access to Physician Care among Older Adults – Elham Mahmoudi
- Third Place – Depression, Cognitive Functioning and Mortality in an Old-Old Sample – Daniel Paulson
Travel Awards to present research at:
- Association for Gerontology in Higher education, Cincinnati – Elham Mahmoudi
- International Neuropsychological Society Conference, Boston – Pamela May, Daniel Paulson
- The Society for Neuroscience, San Diego – Peng Yuan
- The Southern Economic Association, Atlanta – Jingua Huang Ph.D.
WSU Dean of Students Award and IOG Travel Award
- Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference – Andrew Bender, Ana Daugherty