Awards & Accomplishments

Elected and Appointed Positions

• Lauren Simpson elected as the Student Representative for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2023-2024)
• Madi Edwards elected as the Student Treasurer for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2023-2024)
• Haley Church elected as the Clinical Representative for the UNL Graduate Student Association (2023-2024)
• Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2022-2023)
• Katie Bogen elected as the Student Representative for the Chancellor's Commission to Prevent Sexual Misconduct (2022-2023)
• Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the UNL Research Advisory Committee (2022-2023)
• Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the UNL Admissions Committee (2021-2022)

Awards & Accomplishments

• Katie Bogen coordinates the Association for Women in Psychology Conference, "Decolonizing Feminist Psychology: Resilience, Healing, & Embodiment" (2024)
• Lauren Simpson wins the ABCT Couples SIG Robert L. Weiss Student Research Award (first prize) for the most outstanding original couples research poster (2023)
• Haley Church receives the James M. Reinhardt Graduate Fellowship for Research in Criminology for her work evaluating RISE's In-Prison program (2023)

• Madi Edwards receives F31 NRSA from NIAAA for her project titled "The Process of Alcohol-Involved Sexual Violence Disclosure: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Examining Disclosure Content" (2023)

• Lauren Simpson becomes a mentor for the NextGen Psych Scholars Program (NPSP) (2023)

• Shaina Kumar receives the Student Award for Distinguished Contributions in Positive Psychology (2023)

• Lauren Simpson receives the Amherst College John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship to support graduate studies (2023)
• Lauren Simpson receives the UNL Dean's Fellowship (2023)
• Lauren Simpson is an invited speaker for the Amherst College Psychology DEI Committee's Alumni Panel - Highlighting Diverse Career Paths in Psychology (2022 & 2023)

• Shaina Kumar, Hanna Grandgenett, and Madi Edwards' research on gratitude during COVID-19 featured in Nebraska Today (2022)

• Katie Bogen co-founds the Clark LGBTQ+ Alumni Association at her alma mater, Clark University (2021)
• Katie Bogen receives the UNL Levine Diversity Award for Psychology Graduate Students (2022)

• Shaina receives the National Register/American Psychological Foundation Internship Travel Scholarship (2022)

• Katie Bogen becomes a mentor for the NextGen Psych Scholars Program (NPSP) (2022)

• Katie Bogen's work with the Center for Advocacy, Response and Education is featured in Nebraska Today (2022)

• Madi Edwards and Alex Brockdorf receive the Diversifying Psychology Weekend Mentor Award (2022)
• Katie Bogen is an invited plenary speaker for the Association for Women in Psychology Conference (2022) 

• Madi Edwards is an invited speaker for New Student Alcohol Education, Bryan College of Health Sciences (2021-2022)

• Katie Bogen receives the Young Alumni Award from her alma mater, Clark University (2021)

• Alex Brockdorf receives 2021 APA Dissertation Research Award (2021)

• Alex Brockdorf receives F31 NRSA from NIAA for her project titled "Daily Predictors of Alcohol Use among Sexual Violence Survivors " (2021)

• Shaina Kumar receives the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment Belfer-Aptman Scholars Award for Dissertation Research (2021)

• Shaina Kumar receives F31 NRSA from NICHD for her project titled "Resilience to Adult Revictimization Among Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Assault" (2021)

• Katie Bogen coordinates the Association for Women in Psychology Conference, "Doing Anti-Racism Work and Adressing Intergenerational Trauma" (2021) 

• Molly Franz receives Presidential Graduate Fellowship (2018)

• David DiLillo awarded Willa Cather named professorship (2017)

• David DiLillo awarded ABCT Spotlight on a Mentor (2016)