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Funding source APAGS
Programs/awards The student arm of APA offers several scholarships, grants and awards, including a $1,000 Basic Psychological Science Research Grant, which may be used for thesis, dissertation or other research, and the APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student In Professional Psychology, which honors a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology with an underserved population.
Key information Most of these awards require applicants to provide a detailed summary of past and current research, leadership experience or information on a student’s work with underserved populations, and an abbreviated curriculum vita. The prize committee may also request a letter of recommendation.
Deadline Varies
For more information www.apa.org/apags/ programs/scholarships/ index.aspx
American Psychological Foundation
The foundation sponsors several scholarships, fellowships, dissertation awards and grants for research and travel, aimed at helping graduate students further their education in psychology. Many APA divisions sponsor scholarships and travel grants to fund graduate students pursuing work in a division’s area of interest.
Prize amounts range from a $300 travel grant to a $25,000 graduate student fellowship for work related to the psychological understanding of gifted and talented children and adolescents.
Varies
www.apa.org/apf
APA divisions
These awards can range from $200 to allow a student to attend a division’s annual meeting to a several thousand dollars to offset graduate school expenses or dissertation research.
Varies by division
Visit each division’s website for more information about the student awards it offers. A list of APA divisions can be found at www.apa.org/about/ division/index.aspx. Visit your professional organization’s website for more details. Association for Psychological Science: www. psychologicalscience.org; Society for Neuroscience: www.sfn.org.
Niche organizations
Organizations such as the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Neuroscience provide funds to students in a variety of research areas and for travel to conferences.
Winners of the APS Student Research Varies Award, for example, receive $250 and are invited to present their research at a symposium at the annual APS convention. Recipients of an SfN Neuroscience Scholars fellowship receive annual support for career development and professional networking activities outside the student’s home institution.
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Contents
Interns: Be sure to track your hours
Students often notice but only sometimes blow the whistle on peers’ ethical violations
Psychology student spearheads coming-out project
Internship application costs rise
Odd Jobs
Media Picks
Chair’s Corner
Research Roundup
Matters to a Degree
The new academic job market
Applier beware
Does TV accurately portray psychology?
Safer travels
How to handle a tough audience
Free Money for Education
Meet your new advocates
Bulletin Board
Jobs, internships, postdocs and other opportunities
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