2017-2018 Award Winners


Student & Postdoctoral Research Awards


Graduate student Award:

Yijung Kim, M.S., University of Massachusetts Boston.
Grow Old with Me: Understanding Discrepancies in Married Couples’ Subjective Aging Experiences  (Mentor: Kathrin Boerner)

Postdoctoral Award:

Jennifer Bellingtier, Ph.D., Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Feeling Young and in Control: Daily Control Beliefs Predict Younger Subjective Ages (Mentor: Michaela Riediger)

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

Bonnie M. Scott, M.S., University of Florida.
Neurophysiology of Motivational Disorders in Parkinson’s disease (mentor: Dawn Bowers)

Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Psychology of Aging

Nadia Brashier, Ph.D., Duke University.
Heuristics for Truth across the Lifespan (Mentor: Elizabeth Marsh)

The Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging

The Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging is designed to honor an individual whose work has made significant early career contributions to understanding critical issues in the psychology of adult development and aging.

Gloria Luong
Dr. Gloria Luong
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Colorado State University

  • Her research program focuses on socioemotional development across the adult lifespan with two major lines of inquiry:
    • adult age differences in stress processes, motivation, and emotion regulation.
    • how social interactions and relationships change with age, and the implications of these changes for individuals’ health and well-being.
  • Her dissertation received the James McKeen Cattell Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Psychology from the New York Academy of Sciences and a Dissertation Award from the Gerontological Society of America.
  • Received major research funding as a principal investigator from both the National Institute on Aging and John Templeton Foundation and Arizona State University, Pathways to Character Initiative.
  • She has published 25 articles or chapters in peer-reviewed journals or peer-reviewed edited volumes, including several prestigious handbooks and top-tier journals, such as Psychology and Aging, Developmental Psychology, and Emotion.

The Mentorship Award in Aging

The Mentorship Award is presented to an individual who has consistently provided support, guidance and strong direction to undergraduate and graduate students in aging and adult development. This individual might be someone who resides at a liberal arts institution or college that focuses on undergraduate education or it may be an individual at a PhD-granting institution. This award will be given to the individual who has been most actively committed to mentoring and who best exemplifies the qualities identified with strong, effective mentoring.

Elizabeth A. Stine-Morrow
Dr. Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Professor of Educational Psychology, Psychology, and the Beckman Institute
University of Illinois


  • Respected researcher known for her scientific contributions to understanding language processing and aging and cognitive interventions. She is also the current editor of Psychology and Aging.
  • Valued mentor to students and colleagues at all levels:
  • “Liz has an amazing talent for discovering and bringing out the individual strengths of each of her mentees. She helped each of us to find capabilities that we didn’t even know we had at the time.”
  • “Liz devotes an enormous amount of time and energy to her mentees. She put in (and continues to put in) incalculable numbers of hours, with each of us, as graduate students and beyond, modeling best practices in everything – we do mean everything – from research, to grantsmanship, to  teaching, to work/life balance, to perseverance.
  • “Liz is a dedicated researcher, independent thinker, and passionate teacher who truly cares about cultivating individuals who will make contributions to the field of cognition and aging as successful academics and researchers. Perhaps Liz’s greatest contribution as a mentor is that she exemplifies the type of professor, professional, and person that inspires others.”