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
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Yoo Bin Lee “Polyubiquitination of Tau Increases Across Braak Stages in Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Readers: Richard B Ivry & Lea Grinberg
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Akash Kulgod for “Towards a 4E Approach to Canine Olfaction”
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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
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Henry Allen for “Decoding Current and Previous Orientation from Small Targets in the Periphery Using Magnetoencephalography”
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Readers: David Whitney, Yuki Murai & Kevin Weiner
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Alison White for “Adolescent mental health and the potential for idiographic medicine using digital health strategies”
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Readers: Aaron Fisher & Tiffany Ho
- Audrey Phan for "Disentangling the Contributions of Proactive and Reactive Control to Impulsivity"
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Readers: Mark D’Esposito, Regina Lapate, & Linda Isaac
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2020
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Olivia Murillo for “An Analysis of the Relationships between Sleep Deprivation, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry, and Affect"
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Readers: David Presti, PhD and Linda Isaac, PhD
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Sathvik Nair for "Attention-based Neural Networks Encode Aspects of Human Word Sense Knowledge"
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Readers: Stephan Meylan, Mahesh Srinivasan & Steven Piantadosi
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- Jessica Lindsey for “Workplace Kindness Predicts Job Satisfaction and Happiness at Work”
2019
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Joseph Schenker for “Task-Switching Performance Relates to Dissociable Network Connectivity Patterns at Rest”
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Readers: Mark D’Esposito & Pauline Baniqued
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Serena Meghani for “How Might We Use Words like Might? Categorical Distinctions in Epistemic Modal Verbs as Seen Through Modal Judgment Tasks”
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Readers: Shaun O’Grady & Mahesh Srinivasan
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Illina Bhaya-Grossman for “Dual-EEG Evidence for a Shared Cognitive Space Underlying Human Communication”
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Readers: Robert Knight, Arjen Stolk & Richard Ivry
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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