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Crystal Thinzar Wins UNCG’s 2024 Outstanding Thesis Award

UNCG Psychology graduate student Crystal Thinzar has won the 2024 Outstanding Thesis Prize for her research entitled, “Keeping it R.E.A.L.: Understanding Everyday Emotion Socialization and Communication Processes in Parents of Toddlers.” This prize of $1000 is awarded annually to the best UNCG master’s thesis or production (from any discipline anywhere in the university). Crystal’s work was

Crystal Thinzar after defending her master's thesis

Shruthi Venkatesh Wins UNCG’s 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award

UNCG Psychology doctoral student Shruthi Venkatesh has won the 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Prize for her research on “Cultural Influences on Food Acceptance and Rejection Across Development.” This prize of $1500 is awarded annually to the best UNCG dissertation (from any discipline anywhere in the university). Shruthi is a soon-to-be Ph.D alumna from our developmental psychology

Shruthi Venkatesh and her dissertation committee

HUBER DEFENDS DISSERTATION

Congratulations to Sabine Huber, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “An Investigation of bidirectional and longitudinal associations between executive functioning and learning related social competence in the context of parent responsiveness,” on June 25. Committee members were Susan Keane (Chair), Jessica Dollar, Megan Fields-Olivieri, and Stuart Marcovitch. (Sabine will become “Dr. Huber” upon completion of

Huber dissertation presentation photo
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