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Undergraduate Grants & Awards

Our undergraduate student researchers have received competitive research grants and other awards, including:  

• 2025:聽聽聽聽 Ayesh Mulla received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
• 2024:听听听听 Amy Patel received a research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.

• 2023:聽聽聽聽 Ola Abozid received several grants from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, and a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award. Read about her successes here!

• 2023:聽聽聽聽 Stevie Ann Hill received a National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist award.

Student Conference Presentations

• Castro, C., Mahfouz, N. O., Prela, D., Mulla, A., Renu, S., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “A review of fixational instability in ophthalmic disease.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
• Alcindor, B., Patel, A., Ramachandra, L., Toribio, J., Sharkly, M. B., & Alexander, R.G.聽(2025). “Decreased eye movement is associated with perceived blurring of object boundaries in meditation.”聽Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 16-20, 2025, St. Petersburg, FL. L. One student author traveled to Florida to present this poster.
• Spiers, J., Patel, A., Alexander, K.E., & Alexander, R. G. (2025). “Burned out but still showing up: the college student experience.”聽鈥淯nconference鈥� presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, April 2-5, 2025, Denver, CO. Two student co-authors traveled to Denver to present this work.
• Mulla, A., Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Swift, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2025). “Fans literally view images differently than non-fans.”聽Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, March 6-8, 2025, New York, NY.
• Abozid, A., Renu, S.K., Safonova, E., Spiers, J., Guerras-Solares, E., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淢icrosaccades and ocular drift in ophthalmic and neurologic disease.鈥� Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Four student presenters traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
•  Hill, S. A., Spiers, J.M., Ramachandra, L., Mulla, A., Hautsch, J., & Alexander, R.G. (2024). 鈥淭he impact of fandom on image viewing.鈥� Poster presented at the annual Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 17-22, 2024, St. Petersburg, FL. Two student co-authors traveled to Florida to co-present this poster.
• Dull, A., Borbon, B., Joseph, J., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淭he Impact of Religiosity as a Buffer to the Adverse Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥� Symposium presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), March 9-11, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. Three undergraduate research assistants travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to present.
• Joseph, J., Borbon, B., Dull, A., & Huey, M. (2023). 鈥淗ow Religious Identity Buffers the Effects of Internet Susceptibility.鈥� Poster presented at the American Psychological Conference, May 25-28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
• Velez, C., Shumskaya, A. & Huey, M. (2022). 鈥淥ptimizing the Remote Learning Environment.鈥� Poster presented at the American Psychological Science Convention, May 26-29, 2022, in Chicago, IL.