Graduate Student Awards 2020 - 2021

Katey Park received the Jennifer Mactavish Graduate Student Leadership Award in the category of Student Engagement and Achievement, November 2020. Value of Award: $1000

Rachel Bar received the Ryerson Gold Medal for the Faculty of Arts, November 2020.

Olivia Provost-Walker received the Black Graduate Student Fellowship from Ryerson University, October 2020. Value of Award: $15,000

The following students received the Jackman Foundation Psychology Research Excellence Grant ($1000 each):

Kathryn Bolton

Danielle D'Amico

Roksana Dobrin-De Grâce

Adrianna Ruggiero

Vincent Santiago

The following students received the 2020-2021 Harry Rosen Research Grant in March 2021:

Alison Carney

Danielle D’Amico

Meena Rangan received the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award (Faculty of Arts) in March 2021

Fiona Thomas received the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award (Ryerson University) in March 2021

Arvin Jagayat received first place in the My Grad Message YSGS, valued at $500

Mane Kara-Yakoubian received Honourable Mention in the My Grad Message YSGS, valued at $250

Parky Lau received the Teaching Development TA/GA award from Ryerson Learning & Teaching Office, $500

Claudia Idzik received the Jack Brown Award from Ryerson LIFE Institute, $1000

The following students won the PGSA Symposium Reflection Competition (Feb 2021)

First prize: David Sumantry

Second prize: Vincent Santiago

Third prize: Jesse Reid

The following students held Ryerson Graduate Scholarships (value $15,000) during the 2021-2022 academic year:

 Krissy Bemister

Alison Carney

Jessica Chuchin

Arielle Dryer

Roksana Dobrin-De Grâce

Bethany Nightingale

Danielle Uy

Danielle D’Amico held a Mitacs Accelerate Grant, valued at $15,000 ($10,000 for intern, $5000 to principle investigator)

 Geneva Millett held a Mitacs Accelerate Grant, valued at $15,000 ($10,000 for intern, $5000 to principle investigator)

 Annabel Sibalis held a Mitacs Accelerate Grant, valued at $15,000  ($10,000 for intern, $5000 to principle investigator)

 Graham Berlin held a Mitacs Research Training Award, valued at $6,000

Arvin Jagayat received the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research supplement from Department of Canadian Heritage and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, December 2020, valued at $1000

 Arvin Jagayat received a Heritage Dissertation Research Award from the Society for Social and Personality Psychology, October 2020, valued at $2000 USD

 Canadian Psychological Association Clinical Section Educational Activity Grant during the fall of 2020 went to:

 Kathleen Stewart

Danielle Uy

Sofija Lavrinsek

Bev Fredborg

 Bev Fredborg received the Deutscher Akademischer Ausauschdienst Research Grants - Short Term Grant ($12,320) University of Heidelberg, Supervisor: Dr. Martin Bohus

 Vincent Santiago received the BMS Scholarship: Student Research and Leadership Development, valued at $2500

 Sasha Usyatynsky won the Dr. Dick Bootzin Student Award for Best Poster - ABCT Behavioural Sleep Medicine Interest Group

 Shira Segal received the Dissertation Research Grant in Developmental Psychology from APA Division 7, valued at $500

 Leah Hamovitch won the American Psychology – Law Society Outstanding Student Poster Award, valued at $150

 Bethany Nightingale won the Best Poster for Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine section of CPA Conference, summer 2020

 Annabel Sibalis received the CAMH Discovery Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship, valued at $65,000

 Menahal Latif won the V-VSS 2021 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award (Vision Sciences Society), APS Student Diversity Registration Award (Association for Psychological Sciences

 Brittany Jamieson received the Dr. Stephen Buttrum Memorial Bursary for Excellence in Clinical Psychology, Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation, valued at $3500

 Claudia Idzik won the APS Student Diversity Registration Award, Association of Psychological Science, valued at $100 USD

 Mane Kara-Yakoubian received the Site of the Day (World after COVID) award, valued at $1,000 USD

 Mane Kara-Yakoubian received the Community Grant from the Armenian Prelacy of Canada, valued at $1,000.

 Danielle D’Amico received the Retired Teachers of Ontario Scholarship, valued at $3,000

 Danielle D’Amico received the Interdisciplinary Trainee Research Innovation Challenge, Canadian Consortium on Neurodegenaration in Aging, valued at $15,000

 Emily Thomas received the Graduate Student Research Award through the Society of Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, valued at $500 USD

The following students held Ontario Graduate Scholarships (value $15,000) during the 2021-2022 academic year:

 Polina Andrievskaia

Jessica Burdo

Kesia Courtenay

Danielle D’Amico

Leah Hamovitch

Jennifer Ip

Ariella Lenton-Brym

Kaitlin McGarragle

Sofia Melendez

Maire O’Hagan

Vincent Santiago

David Sumantry

Sasha Usyatynsky

Sally Zheng

The following student held QEII-GST (value $15,000) during the 2021-2022 academic year:

 Brandy Murovec

Arvin Jagayat received the Department of Canadian Heritage and SSHRC - $10,000 CAD, PI John Beebe, co-applicant with Becky Choma and Carson Pun - personal stipend from grant

 Liyana Swirsky received the CIHR Summer Program in Aging Training (SPA) program competition

Received SPA 2021 Research Proposal for best CLSA Catalyst Grant ($3000 data access fee waiver plus $500 research award).

 The following students held SSHRC Doctoral Awards that began during the 2021 – 2022 academic year:

 Udi Alter (3 years, $35,000 per year)

Amy Beaudry (3 years, $35,000 per year)

Graham Berlin (3 years, $35,000 per year)

Danielle Lim (3 years, $35,000 per year)

Geneva Millett (3 years, $35,000 per year)

Olivia Provost-Walker (4 years, $20,000 per year)

 The following students held CIHR Doctoral Awards that began during the 2021 – 2022 academic year:

 Maya Atlas (3 years, $30,000 per year)

 The following students held NSERC Doctoral Awards that began during the 2021 – 2022 academic year:

 Kesaan Kandasamy (3 years, $21,000 per year)

The following students held SSHRC Master’s Awards (value $17,500), for the 2021-2021 year:

 Kathryn Bolton

Shadini Dematogoda

Lauren Hytman

Claudia Idzik

Irina Osminin

Samantha Pejic

Erica Rodrigues

The following students held CIHR Master’s Awards (value $17,500), for the 2021-2021 year:

 Justice Cupid

Kristen Whitfield

Adhm Zahran

The following students held NSERC Master’s Awards (value $17,500), for the 2021-2021 year:

Marni Goldstein

Mane Kara-Yakoubian

Bailey Thompson