The Fifth Annual Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research Announcement
Mike Roche,
Winner of the Fifth Annual
Wiggins Student Award for
Outstanding Interpersonal Research
Winner of the Fifth Annual
Wiggins Student Award for
Outstanding Interpersonal Research
The SITAR
Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) is very pleased to announce this
year’s winner of the Jerry S. Wiggins
Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research. Before we announce this year’s winner, we’d like to
provide a little background on the award first. The Award is given annually by SITAR in order to recognize and
promote outstanding student research in interpersonal psychology. One
award is given for the best student presentation (poster or talk) given at the
annual SITAR conference. Students indicate their desire to participate in the
competition when submitting their proposals for the conference. These students
are automatically enrolled in the award competition upon acceptance of their
conference proposals.
The fifth annual award competition took place at the conference in Park City, Utah. A record number of student members of SITAR chose to participate in the competition this year, with a total of 11 applicants. All presentations were excellent. Indeed, the overall quality of students’ work in our society makes the job of the judges difficult. After careful consideration of multiple criteria, the judges have conferred a winner: Michael Roche of Pennsylvania State University is the fifth recipient of the annual Wiggins Award for his presentation entitled “Examining the Interpersonal Core of Personality Pathology”. Congratulations Mike!
The fifth annual award competition took place at the conference in Park City, Utah. A record number of student members of SITAR chose to participate in the competition this year, with a total of 11 applicants. All presentations were excellent. Indeed, the overall quality of students’ work in our society makes the job of the judges difficult. After careful consideration of multiple criteria, the judges have conferred a winner: Michael Roche of Pennsylvania State University is the fifth recipient of the annual Wiggins Award for his presentation entitled “Examining the Interpersonal Core of Personality Pathology”. Congratulations Mike!
We also wish
to announce two Honorable Mentions,
as well. This distinction goes to Kate Thomas of Michigan State University and
Jenny Cundiff from the University of Utah. Both presentations were also seen as
particularly strong by the judges. Congratulations to both Kate and Jenny!
SITAR members can look forward to a presentation of the award winning research in the fall issue of our newsletter. We are very proud to have each and every one of our student presenters associated with SITAR, and we look forward to continuing to see more of their superb interpersonal research in the future. “Thank you!” to everyone who participated in the competition this year, including the judges, who gave their best effort to provide a fair decision. We would like to encourage all of our student members to apply for the award next year.
The GSAC
SITAR members can look forward to a presentation of the award winning research in the fall issue of our newsletter. We are very proud to have each and every one of our student presenters associated with SITAR, and we look forward to continuing to see more of their superb interpersonal research in the future. “Thank you!” to everyone who participated in the competition this year, including the judges, who gave their best effort to provide a fair decision. We would like to encourage all of our student members to apply for the award next year.
The GSAC