Outstanding Alumni Award

In 2012 LIFE received the APA Board of Educational Affairs Award to Advance Interdisciplinary Education and Training in Psychology.

It was decided to use the prize money to establish an annual award for LIFE alumni recognizing continued excellence in interdisciplinary developmental science post PhD. This early career award is focused specifically on the continued realization of the objectives of LIFE in the candidate's independent research career.

Award Winner 2019

The LIFE Outstanding Alumni Award 2019 has been bestowed on Marie Hennecke, UZH alumna, now Full Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany. See also her website. She will give a lecture at the Spring Academy 2020 at UVA in Charlottesville.

Previous Awardees

2018

• Gizem Hülür, HU alumna, meanwhile University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
  Award Lecture at Spring Academy 2019 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
  Cognitive and Psychosocial Aging: Emerging Potentials and Challenges

2017

• Igor Grossmann, UM alumnus, now University of Waterloo, Canada
  Award Lecture at Spring Academy 2018 at the MPI for Human Development, Berlin:
  Wisdom as a Meta-Cognitive Framework for Sound Judgment: Measurement, Ecology, and the Self

2016

• Elliot Tucker-Drob, UVA alumnus, now University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Award Lecture at Spring Academy 2017 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
  Gene–Environment Interplay and Lifespan Psychological Development

2015

• Cristine H. Legare, UM alumna, now University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Award Lecture at Spring Academy 2016 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville:
  The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning

2014

• Natalie Ebner, MPIB alumna, now University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  Award lecture at the Spring Academy 2015 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
  Social and Emotional Aging: A Neurobehavioral Analysis

2013

• K. Paige Harden, UVA alumna, now University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Award lecture at the Spring Academy 2014 at the University of Virgina, Charlottesville:
  The Development of Risk-Taking in Adolescence

2012

• Nilam Ram, UVA alumnus, now Penn State University, USA
  Award lecture at the Spring Academy 2013 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
  Time-Oriented Design and Data Analysis: Playing With New Mediums