Penn State Department of Psychology

Please help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate student Jianing Sun for receiving the 2026 Outstanding Publication by a Psychology Graduate Student Award. To learn more about Jianing, go to https://pcd.la.psu.edu/meet-the-team/

Help us celebrate all of the nominees for the 2026 award for an outstanding publication by a graduate student: Elsie Yan, Valerie Swisher, Jianing Sun, Adriana Miller, Joshua Wenger, and Tianyi Zhang!

Please help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate student Didar Zeytun for receiving the 2026 Outstanding Teaching by a Psychology Graduate Student Award. To learn more about Didar, go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/didar-zeytun-78349978

Please help us congratulate Penn State graduate students Valerie Swisher and Jianing Sun for receiving the 2026 Matthew Ryan Serafino Graduate Scholarship. To learn more about Valerie, go to https://newmanlabweb.wixsite.com/home/people. To learn more about Jianing, go to https://pcd.la.psu.edu/meet-the-team/

Please help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate students Paul DiStefano and Shuai (Weber) Wang for receiving the 2026 Leibowitz Program Fund Graduate Research Award. To learn more about Paul, see https://lindiv.la.psu.edu/people/paul-distefano/. To learn more about Shuai, go to https://sites.psu.edu/socialviplab/social-vips/

Please help us congratulate Penn State graduate student Sohee Park for receiving the 2026 Wisniewski Family Enhancement Fund. To learn more about Sohee, go to https://pcd.la.psu.edu/meet-the-team/

Please help us congratulate Penn State Psychology graduate students McKenna Sakamoto and Bre Genaro for receiving the 2026 Clinical Scientist Practitioner Award. You can learn more about McKenna at https://www.neuropsychologypsu.com/arnettpeople. You can learn more about Bre at https://careslab.la.psu.edu/lab_members/

Please help us congratulate Penn State graduate student Valerie Swisher for receiving the 2026 Martin T. Murphy Excellence in Clinical Psychology Award. To learn a little more about Valerie, see https://newmanlabweb.wixsite.com/home/people

Please help us celebrate Dr. Beth Stormshak, an alum of the Child Clinical Psychology program at Penn State now professor of counseling at the University of Oregon, for receiving the Penn State Psychology 2026 Outstanding Alumni Award. To learn more about Dr. Stormshak's amazing work, go to https://education.uoregon.edu/directory/fhs/all/bstorm

Please help us celebrate Dr. Timothy Kundro, a 2016 Penn State alum and psychology major now associate professor of organizational behavior at UNC, for receiving Penn State Psychology's 2026 Early Career Achievement Award. To learn more about Dr. Kundro, see https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/directory/tim-kundro/