Robert J. Glushko Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Research

Glushko Prizes are awarded each term to all students who are designated as recipients of Highest Honors by their thesis committees. The winners receive a cash prize

Past Winners: 

2024

2023

  • Zia Bajwa "Evaluating Implementation Outcomes of the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C): A qualitative analysis of providers treating severe mental ilness in community mental health centers
    • Readers: Mark D'Esposito & Allison Harvey
  • Angelica Wang "Overconfidence and Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence" 
    • Readers: Don Moore & Park Sinchaisri

2022

  •  Zaiyao Zhang "Emotion specificity, coherence, and cultural variation in conceptualizations of positive emotions: a study of body sensations and emotion recognition"
    • Readers: Dacher Keltner & Felicia K. Zerwas
  • Yoo Bin Lee “Polyubiquitination of Tau Increases Across Braak Stages in Alzheimer’s Disease”

    • Readers: Richard B Ivry & Lea Grinberg
  • Akash Kulgod for “Towards a 4E Approach to Canine Olfaction”

    • Readers: Lucia Jacobs & Frederic Theunissen

2021

  • Oliver Krentzman “The Cognitive, Psychological, and Physical Effect of Wim Hof’s Breathing Method: An Exploratory Study”
    • Readers: David E. Presti & Dacher Keltner
  • Bonmu Ku for “Understanding Discursive Relativity in Spatial Cognition of L1-Korean-L2-English Bilinguals”
    • Readers: Terry Regier & Dor Abrahamson
  • Henry Allen for “Decoding Current and Previous Orientation from Small Targets in the Periphery Using Magnetoencephalography”

    • Readers: David Whitney, Yuki Murai & Kevin Weiner

  • Alison White for “Adolescent mental health and the potential for idiographic medicine using digital health strategies”

    • Readers: Aaron Fisher & Tiffany Ho

  • Audrey Phan for "Disentangling the Contributions of Proactive and Reactive Control to Impulsivity"
    • Readers: Mark D’Esposito, Regina Lapate, & Linda Isaac

2020

  • Olivia Murillo for “An Analysis of the Relationships between Sleep Deprivation, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry, and Affect"

    • Readers: David Presti, PhD and Linda Isaac, PhD

  • Sathvik Nair for "Attention-based Neural Networks Encode Aspects of Human Word Sense Knowledge"

    • Readers: Stephan Meylan, Mahesh Srinivasan & Steven Piantadosi

  • Jessica Lindsey for “Workplace Kindness Predicts Job Satisfaction and Happiness at Work”

2019

  • Joseph Schenker for “Task-Switching Performance Relates to Dissociable Network Connectivity Patterns at Rest”

    • Readers: Mark D’Esposito & Pauline Baniqued

  • Serena Meghani for “How Might We Use Words like Might? Categorical Distinctions in Epistemic Modal Verbs as Seen Through Modal Judgment Tasks”

    • Readers: Shaun O’Grady & Mahesh Srinivasan

  • Illina Bhaya-Grossman for “Dual-EEG Evidence for a Shared Cognitive Space Underlying Human Communication”

    • Readers: Robert Knight, Arjen Stolk & Richard Ivry

  • Ben Truong for “The Cause of Bias: Expedient Empathy”

2018

  • Nora Harhen for “The Influence of Goal Setting on Value Learning: Examining how Goal-directed Behavior leverages the Reinforcement Learning System” 
    • Readers: Anne Collins & Linda Wilbrecht