Department Endowments and Awards

The teaching and research missions of the department are supported in part through the generous contributions of department alumni and friends. Charitable donations can be made at: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/about/support-psychology This includes the Feldman-Cohen Fund, as well as one of our other funds. If you wish to donate to a designated fund, scroll down to the Optional section of the form and indicate the designated fund. You will receive a thank you letter from the chair confirming your donation.

Provides support for the dissertation research of advanced graduate students. Every year, the Department of Psychology recognizes outstanding doctoral scholarship with the Psychology Department Dissertation Award. This honor and monetary award of $1000 is given based on excellence in scholarly productivity during doctoral studies, and significance and quality of the doctoral dissertation project.  Sarah Gomillion, a graduate of our Social-Personality Ph.D. program, is the most recent recipient of this award. Gomillion also received a Mark Diamond Research Foundation Award. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Provides support for graduate students to travel to conferences and present their research through posters and talks.

Provides support for a lecture series on Learning Theory.

Provides tuition scholarships to support the training of female graduate students. Whitney Fosco is the most recent recipient of this award.

Provides an award to the undergraduate honors student recognized as conducting the best honors thesis project. Amanda Russo (profiled) is the most recent recipient of this award.

Provides an award to the graduate student recognized as publishing the best first-authored research article in the prior year. Samuel Meisel is the most recent recipient of this award for a paper entitled, “The moderating role of cognitive capacities in the association between social norms and drinking behavior.”