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Sheri Berenbaum, Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics, is the recipient of the 2020 Pavouček Shields Faculty Award. This award recognizes tenured faculty who have undertaken professionally oriented service and mentoring on behalf of women at the university. Dr. Berenbaum supports women in their academic careers at all levels and makes accommodations to help them remain in academia while they strive for work life balance. Her nominator described her as, “…an effective advisor and mentor of women of diverse backgrounds and interests.” In sum, Dr. Berenbaum has been a source of support, mentorship, and encouragement for many women at the University throughout her years at Penn State. |
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Pamela Cole, Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies, is a recipient of the 2020 Raymond Lombra Award for Distinction in the Social Sciences. She is an internationally recognized scholar who has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the development, measurement, conceptualization, and socialization of emotion regulation. Moreover, Dr. Cole’s systematic program of research has culminated in recent years in ground-breaking work shaping our understanding of the dynamics of children’s self-regulation of emotion. She also is a valued teacher, an effective, sharing mentor, and an engaged and caring member of her departmental, university, and professional communities. |
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Junqiang “Jacob” Dai is a recipient of the 2020 Raymond E. Lombra and Roberta Lombra Outstanding Graduate Research Award. He was nominated by Dr. Suzy Scherf. Dai is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology. The article for which he was nominated, “Puberty and functional brain development in humans: Convergence in findings?” was published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in October 2019. His work on this piece of research spanned three years of his graduate training. During this time, he also finished a master’s thesis fMRI research project, presented at the Vision Sciences Society Meeting, and helped launch a new NIH-funded research project in the Laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience. |
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Emily May is a recipient of the 2020 Raymond E. Lombra and Roberta Lombra Outstanding Graduate Research Award. She was nominated by Dr. Dawn Witherspoon. May is a Ph.D. student in the Doctoral Program in Child Clinical Psychology. May was nominated for her empirical article entitled “Maintaining and Attaining Educational Expectations: A Two-Cohort Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Youth” in press in Fall 2019’s Developmental Psychology, a journal with a 23.5% manuscript acceptance rate. As first author of this study, May led the manuscript from beginning to end, developed the research questions, conducted analyses, and led the writing on the manuscript. |