Featured Award

Fellow, Social Science Research Center

Selected as a Fellow of the Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center in 2025, recognizing sustained contributions to social science research across rural health, family studies, and aging.

2025 Research Fellows

Awards and Honors

Ottilie Schillig Special Teaching Projects Award

Awarded in 2026 by the MSU Center for Innovation in Teaching Excellence to fund Broadening Discovery, which launches PSY 4503, a course-based undergraduate research experience.

Department of Psychology story

Inclusive Excellence Teaching Grant

Awarded in 2026 by the MSU College of Arts and Sciences to support PSY 4503.

MSU Career Center Recognition

Named by a graduating student in the MSU Career Center 2024-2025 First Destination Survey for contributions to their career success (2026).

2nd Place (Honorable Mention) Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology Award for Best Non-Applied Course

Recognized in 2025 for the redesigned PSY 8623 graduate seminar in Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology.

Clinical Psychology Graduate Mentor of the Year Award

Awarded by the Mississippi State University clinical psychology students in 2020.

Community Engaged Research Summer Institute

Selected in 2019 as one of ten participants.

Human Research Protection Program Appreciation of Service Award

Awarded by the MSU Office of Research Compliance in 2016.

Nicholas Evans Graduate Award for Advising Excellence

Awarded by West Virginia University in 2010 for excellence in graduate-level advising.

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Research Award

Awarded by West Virginia University in 2010 for outstanding doctoral research.