Div. 7 Awards and Grants

Div. 7 presents nine awards and two grants annually.

Awards

• Boyd McCandless Award
  This award recognizes young scientists who have made distinguished contributions to developmental psychology. 

• Dissertation Award in Developmental Psychology
  This award recognizes an individual whose dissertation is deemed to be an outstanding contribution to developmental psychology.

• Early Career Outstanding Paper Award
  The Early Career Outstanding Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or early career scientist, within seven years of PhD, who has published (or has in press) an outstanding paper in the previous year.

• Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology
  This award recognizes an author of a book in the field of psychology that has a profound effect on one or more of the areas represented by Division 7. 

• G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology
  This award recognizes distinguished contributions to developmental psychology, including contributions in research, student training, and other scholarly endeavors.

• The Mary Ainsworth Award for Excellence in Developmental Science
  This award recognizes mid-career developmentalists who have made outstanding contributions to developmental science. 

• The Mavis Hetherington Award for Excellence in Applied Developmental Science
  This award recognizes mid-career developmentalists who have made outstanding contributions to applied developmental science and helped promote the well-being of children, families and groups or organizations.

• Mentor Award in Developmental Psychology
  This award recognizes individuals who have had a substantial impact on developmental psychology by their mentoring of young scholars.

• Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society
  This award recognizes an individual who over a lifetime career has contributed to the science of developmental psychology and who has also worked to apply developmental psychology to society.

Grants

• Dissertation Research Grant in Developmental Psychology
  The Dissertation Research Grant supports the dissertation research of an outstanding graduate student member of APA and Div. 7.

• Early Career Research Grant in Developmental Psychology
  Support the research of outstanding early career members who have not yet received any federal funding for research as a principal investigator or co-investigator.