Honors & Awards

Graduate Students Awarded for their IMPACT Lab Work

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Research Mentoring Award Program, The Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago

• Sarah Broner, “Weight gain and psychological symptom remission in multi-family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa”, 2024

• Maya Hareli, “Examining the Impact of Technology-Enhanced Peer Mentorship on First-Year University”, 2023

• Carol Hundert, “The Impact of Peer Supportive Accountability on Use of a Mindfulness App in Depressed College Students”, 2020

• Alexandra Kirsch, “Disordered Eating Treatment Programs For Adolescents And Emerging Adults: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Treatment Effectiveness And Moderators Of Treatment Success”, 2015

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Heckler Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago

• Sarah Broner, “Modeling the impact of peer mentorship to support first-year student well-being”, 2022

• Jenna Shapiro, “Trajectories and Predictors of Psychological Distress During the Transition to College for Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes”, 2016

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Other Honors and Awards, Loyola University Chicago

• Sarah Broner, Graduate Student Mentor Award, CELTS, Loyola University Chicago, 2023

• Maya Hareli, Social Sciences Thesis of the Year Award, Loyola University Chicago, 2022

• Carol Hundert, James E. Johnson Graduate-Student Award for Teaching Excellence, 2020

• Carol Hundert, Kobler Travel Award, Loyola University Chicago, 2018

• Brynn Huguenel, Kobler Travel Award, Loyola University Chicago, 2018

• Alexandra Kirsch, James E. Johnson Graduate-Student Award for Teaching Excellence, 2016

 

Other National Awards

• Sarah Broner, Institute for Social Research; Developmental, Child, and Family Psychology Scholarship, 2022

• Sarah Broner, Poster Award, Technology SIG, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 2021

• Maya Hareli, Innovative Research Poster Award, SCCAP, APA Division 53, 2021

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Undergraduate Students Awarded for their IMPACT Lab Work

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Research Mentoring Award Program

• Axel Juarez, paired with Maya Hareli, 2023

• Marie Chamberlain, paired with Carol Hundert Gonzales, 2020

• Alex Karl, paired with Alexandra Kirsch, 2015

 

Provost Fellowships, Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS) and the Loyola Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Loyola University Chicago

The Provost Fellowship is the largest, most flexible, and most diverse fellowship offered by the Loyola Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LUROP). Known as Provost fellows, these students may conduct a research project under the mentorship of a faculty member in either the summer or academic year. Significantly, any Loyola undergrad from any program or professional school can be a Provost fellow. In terms of time commitment, while Provost fellows and their mentors are encouraged to agree on a project timeline and to meet regularly to assess progress, fellows are not required to fill out timecards. Typically, summer fellows agree with their mentors to work between 10-20 hours per week over 10 weeks, while academic year fellows tend to work between 4-10 hours per week over the course of the academic year. Fellows receive a $2,500 award paid hourly through the university's payroll system, KRONOS. Additionally, each fellowship has a $1,000 research budget at its disposal. 

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• Bradley Orzada, “Predicting outcomes for a mindfulness app: An exploratory analysis of language trends using LIWC-22”, 2024-2025

• Joshua Knutsen, “Group interpersonal psychotherapy for college students (IPT-CS): A thematic analysis of mechanisms and attitudes in college students”, 2023-2024

• Danielle Arntson, “Motivational interviewing as a technique to reduce non-suicidal self injury in college students”, 2021-2022

• Matthias Shack, “Facilitators and barriers to mentor-mentee relationships in a mental health-app intervention”, 2021-2022

• Adorina Bethishou, “Supportive accountability in mental-health mentoring of youth”, 2019-2020

• Avery Pankratz, “The effect of severity of mental health problems, perceived public stigma, and confidence on students’ willingness to seek treatment”, 2019-2020

• Saba Shalwani, “Integrating emotional intelligence training into a career and life planning seminar for students transitioning out of college”, 2019-2020

• Sylwia Osos, “Life skills training program for first-year college students”, 2018-2019

• Khrystyna Stetsiv, “Assessing the effect of a mindfulness mobile app in decreasing somatic and cognitive anxiety in college students, with non-reactivity as a mediator”, 2018-2019

• Noor Abdelfattah, “Coding for the effects of peer supportive accountability mode in a mobile- phone app for treating college depression”, 2018-2019

• Noor Abdelfattah, “Testing a peer supportive accountability mode in a mindfulness mobile-phone app for treating college depression”, 2017-2018

• Melissa Haggerty, “The relationship between social media and mental health in college students”, 2014-2015

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Other University, Regional, and National Awards and Honors for IMPACT Lab Work

• Joshua Knutsen, Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Loyola University Chicago, 2024

• Samad Alvi, Thomas Kennedy Award for Outstanding Service, Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 2021

• Marie Chamberlain, Johnson Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago,020-2022

• Anum Afzal, Outstanding Poster Presentation, Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2017

• Kelechi Agwuncha, Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (REAP) Program, IMPACT Lab, 2014

• Juan Barriga, McNair Scholar, IMPACT Lab, Loyola University Chicago, 2013-2015

• Gretchen Heinrichs, Psi Chi Midwestern Psychological Association Conference Regional Research Award, 2013​