Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson’s Disease Research

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Sponsor: Division 20

Description

The Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson’s Disease Research recognizes graduates student’s research on Parkinson’s Disease. Potential research topics that will be funded by this award include, but are not limited to:

  • The assessment and treatment of persons with Parkinson’s disease.
  • The impact of this diagnosis on family support systems (e.g., caregiver burden).
For the purposes of this award, the term "research" is broadly defined to include any scholarly endeavor, including but not limited to experiments, correlational studies, qualitative investigations, historical work, case studies, and evaluation research. However, the focus of this research must be on the assessment, treatment, or management of Parkinson’s disease.
Eligibility

The award competition is open to doctoral-level graduate students.

Only one submission per student will be reviewed each year. 

The funded research proposal is expected to be conducted during the next academic year.

To be eligible for this award, the student must initiate and conduct the project under the supervision of a professor or research advisor. The applicant is expected to be the principal investigator on the project.

How to Apply

Nomination materials should be uploaded through the Division 20 Awards Submission websiteopens in new window.

The nomination materials will include the following:

  • A research proposal, which should include:
  1. An abstract (up to 400 words)
  2. A research plan (not to exceed five pages using 12-point font or larger), including specific aims/hypotheses, background and significance, research design and methods, how the grant funds will be used, and cited literature
  • A biographical sketch (not to exceed one page), that includes in a list format:
  1. Schools attended with degrees attained
  2. Relevant professional position
  3. Honors
  4. Society memberships
  5. Publications and/or paper presentations
  6. Relevant coursework
  7. Any other relevant information you would like to include
  • A short supporting statement by the faculty sponsor verifying the nature of and the relative contribution to the research by the student submitting the proposal. This statement should be short, not to exceed one paragraph, and emailed directly from the advisor.
Past Recipients

2025

Nishaat Mukadam, MA

2023

Shraddha Kinger, PhD

2022

Rini Kaplan

2021

Francesca Lopez

2020

Emma Weizenbaum, MA

2018

Bonnie M. Scott, MS

2014

Andrea M. Weinstein

2013

Deepti Putcha

Last updated: October 2025Date created: 2014