The Awards Committee co-chair Jennifer Birdsall, PhD, ABPP completed her 2-year term in August 2022. We thank her for her service and look forward to working with our next co-chair. The committee would like to thank everyone on the D20 Executive Committee who reviewed applications for 2022.
Six awards received applications this year and two award recipients accepted their awards in person at the APA Annual Convention in Minneapolis:
Division 20 Postdoctoral Research Award
Shenghao Zhang, PhD
Florida State University
Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Psychology of Aging
Jenna Merenstein, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson’s Disease Research
Rini Kaplan, MSc, MA
Boston University
Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging
Soomi Lee, PhD
University of South Florida
Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement (DRA) Award
Karen Fingerman, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Mentorship Award in Aging
Rebecca Allen, PhD, ABPP
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa