Awards & Accomplishments

Elected and Appointed Positions

Lauren Simpson elected as the Student Representative for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2023-2024)
Madi Edwards elected as the Student Treasurer for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2023-2024)
Haley Church elected as the Clinical Representative for the UNL Graduate Student Association (2023-2024)
Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the ABCT Child Maltreatment & Interpersonal Violence SIG, ABCT (2022-2023)
Katie Bogen elected as the Student Representative for the Chancellor's Commission to Prevent Sexual Misconduct (2022-2023)
Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the UNL Research Advisory Committee (2022-2023)
Madi Edwards elected as the Student Representative for the UNL Admissions Committee (2021-2022)

Katie Bogen coordinates the Association for Women in Psychology Conference, "Decolonizing Feminist Psychology: Resilience, Healing, & Embodiment" (2024)
Lauren Simpson wins the ABCT Couples SIG Robert L. Weiss Student Research Award (first prize) for the most outstanding original couples research poster (2023)
Haley Church receives the James M. Reinhardt Graduate Fellowship for Research in Criminology for her work evaluating RISE's In-Prison program (2023)
Madi Edwards receives F31 NRSA from NIAAA for her project titled "The Process of Alcohol-Involved Sexual Violence Disclosure: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Examining Disclosure Content" (2023)
Lauren Simpson becomes a mentor for the NextGen Psych Scholars Program (NPSP) (2023)
Shaina Kumar receives the Student Award for Distinguished Contributions in Positive Psychology (2023)
Lauren Simpson receives the Amherst College John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship to support graduate studies (2023)
Lauren Simpson receives the UNL Dean's Fellowship (2023)
Lauren Simpson is an invited speaker for the Amherst College Psychology DEI Committee's Alumni Panel - Highlighting Diverse Career Paths in Psychology (2022 & 2023)
Shaina Kumar, Hanna Grandgenett, and Madi Edwards' research on gratitude during COVID-19 featured in Nebraska Today (2022)
Katie Bogen co-founds the Clark LGBTQ+ Alumni Association at her alma mater, Clark University (2021)
Katie Bogen receives the UNL Levine Diversity Award for Psychology Graduate Students (2022)
Shaina receives the National Register/American Psychological Foundation Internship Travel Scholarship (2022)
Katie Bogen becomes a mentor for the NextGen Psych Scholars Program (NPSP) (2022)
Katie Bogen's work with the Center for Advocacy, Response and Education is featured in Nebraska Today (2022)
Madi Edwards and Alex Brockdorf receive the Diversifying Psychology Weekend Mentor Award (2022)
Katie Bogen is an invited plenary speaker for the Association for Women in Psychology Conference (2022)
Madi Edwards is an invited speaker for New Student Alcohol Education, Bryan College of Health Sciences (2021-2022)
Katie Bogen receives the Young Alumni Award from her alma mater, Clark University (2021)
Alex Brockdorf receives 2021 APA Dissertation Research Award (2021)
Alex Brockdorf receives F31 NRSA from NIAA for her project titled "Daily Predictors of Alcohol Use among Sexual Violence Survivors " (2021)
Shaina Kumar receives the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment Belfer-Aptman Scholars Award for Dissertation Research (2021)
Shaina Kumar receives F31 NRSA from NICHD for her project titled "Resilience to Adult Revictimization Among Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Assault" (2021)
Katie Bogen coordinates the Association for Women in Psychology Conference, "Doing Anti-Racism Work and Adressing Intergenerational Trauma" (2021)
Molly Franz receives Presidential Graduate Fellowship (2018)
David DiLillo awarded Willa Cather named professorship (2017)
David DiLillo awarded ABCT Spotlight on a Mentor (2016)