Student Award Nominations Are Now Open

Nominate Students for The GSPS Outstanding Student Scholar Awards

We invite faculty to nominate their students for the GSPS Outstanding Student Scholar Award. This award highlights students who have made meaning impacts on you and your research team. The nomination narrative should focus on the student’s overall contributions, development, and potential as a researcher in psychological science. You may wish to include evidence related to the areas below, as appropriate. Nominations are not expected to address all areas. Because this award recognizes overall research excellence, faculty are encouraged to provide concrete examples when possible.

Areas faculty may want to highlight in their nominations:

  • Overall research trajectory and impact: the student’s development over time, intellectual contributions, leadership or initiative in research, and degree of independence or ownership of their work.
  • Research quality and rigor: methodological or analytic contributions, transparency and reproducibility practices, dissemination of research (e.g., presentations, publications, preregistrations), and adherence to ethical standards, cultural competence, and research integrity. 
  • Teamwork: collaboration with others, shared contributions to psychological science, and mentorship or support of peers in research settings
  • Research application: research addressing real-world psychological issues or challenges, including applied or community-engaged research.
  • Rising scholar consideration (for students in their first year of research involvement): evidence of noteworthy potential, early development of research skills, and strong promise for continued growth.

*Other information that demonstrates the student’s excellence or potential as a psychological science scholar may also be included.

Submission Deadline

March 28, 2026, at 11:59 pm EDT.

Submit Your Nomination

Eligibility

  1. Students must be attending the GSPS 2026 conference to be considered for the award.
  2. Nominations should come from faculty mentors/members who have close knowledge of the student's research involvement.

Nomination Process

To nominate a student, the faculty member must provide:

  1. The student information (i.e., name, institution, and email address)
  2. Faculty member’s information (i.e., name, email address, and relationship to the student)
  3. Nomination information (i.e., 2000 characters highlighting the students impact on research and scholarly output).

* You must repeat these steps for each student.  

Nomination Review Process

Review criteria: Nominees will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  1. Strong record of undergraduate research
  2. Potential for significant impact on the field of psychology

Review process:

  1. Two to three reviewers will evaluate each nomination to determine the degree to which they meet the review criteria.
  2. Nominations with the most points across judges will receive the awards.
  3. Awards will be announced and presented at the GSPS 2026 conference.