NCFR-Sponsored Awards

• Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring - Alexis J. Walker, Oregon State University
• NCFR Student Award - Mallory Lucier-Greer, Auburn University and Amanda L. Williams, Oklahoma State University
  
• Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award - Katie Lowe, Purdue University
  

NCFR Section-Sponsored Awards

• Ernest W. Burgess Award - Research and Theory Section - Rand D. Conger, University of California, Davis
  
• Feldman Outstanding Research Proposal for Research in Family Policy - Family Policy Section - Jennifer Hall, University of Chicago
  
• Jessie Bernard Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper Award - Feminism and Family Studies Section - Hyun-Kyung You, Central Michigan University
  
• Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective - Feminism and Family Studies Section - Lori Kinkler, Clark University
  
• John L. and Harriette P. McAdoo Dissertation Award - Ethnic Minorities Section - Christiana Awosan, Drexel University
  
• Reuben Hill Award - Research and Theory Section - Thomas J. Schofield, University of California, Davis; Monica J. Martin, University of California, Davis; Katherine J. Conger, University of California, Davis; M. Brent Donnellan, Michigan State University; Tricia M. Neppl, Iowa State University; Rand D. Conger, University of California, Davis
  "Intergenerational Transmission of Adaptive Functioning: A Test of the Interactionist Model of SES and Human Development"
  

Affiliate Councils Awards

• Award for Meritorious Service - Jonathan Davis, Southeast Council on Family Relations/Samford University
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research Paper - Heather Johnson, Samford University - "Serious Mental Illness and Family Functioning"
• Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper - Janeal McCauley, Lamar University - "Defining Family: Perspectives of Homeless Adults in Southeast Texas"
• President for a Day - Amanda L. Williams, Oklahoma State University

Section Awards & Focus Group Awards

Education & Enrichment Section

• Student Proposal Award - Dina Izenstark, University of Illinois
  "Effectiveness of Age-Paced Parenting Newsletters with Low-Income Parents"
• Student Proposal Award - Alicia Nicoleau, Loma Linda University
  "Flexibility, Relational Focus, and Stability among Long-term Couples: Implications for Enrichment and Practice"
• Student Proposal Award - Nicole Thomte, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  "Are We Queer Yet?: Training Away the Anti-Gay"

Ethnic Minorities Section

• Student/New Professional Best Paper Award - Jocelyn R. Smith, University of Maryland
  

Family & Health Section

• Outstanding Professional Paper/Publications Award - Hui "Cathy" Liu, Michigan State University
  "Marital Dissolution and Self-Rated Health: Age Trajectories and Birth Cohort Variations"
• Outstanding Student/New Professionial Paper Award - Russel B. Toomey, Arizona State University
  "The Impact of Arizona's S.B. 1070 Immigration Law on Utilization of Health Care and Public Assistance among Mexican-Origin Teen Mothers and their Mother Figures"

Family Science Section

• Wesley Burr Graduate Student Scholarship Award
  Jaimee Hartenstein, Kansas State University
  Soomi Lee, Yonsei University
  Yolanda Mitchell, Kansas State University
  

Family Therapy Section

• Best Research Paper Award-Student - Lindsay L. Edwards, University of Connecticut
  "MFT Training in Sexual Minority Issues: A Core Faculty Perspective"
• Best Research Paper Award-New Professional - Ryan Seedall, Utah State University
  "Emotional Congruence Within Couple Interaction: The Role of Attachment Avoidance"
• Best Poster Award - Student - Amy M. Claridge, Florida State University
  "Predictors of Supportive Co-Parenting: Impact of Social Support and Abortion Consideration"
• Best Poster Award - New Professional - Erika L. Grafsky, Virginia Tech
  "Understanding Substance Use among 'Healthy' Sexual Minority Youth"

International Section

• Jan Trost Award - Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
• International Travel Scholarship - Jaerim Lee, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Religion & Family Life Section

• Student/New Professional Outstanding Paper Award - Yaxin Lu, Louisiana State University
  "The Role of Chinese Christian Church inh Chinese Immigrant Families"
• Outstanding Paper Award  - Michael Goodman, Brigham Young University
  "Religion and Transformative Processes in Marriage: A Qualitative Study"
  

Research & Theory Section

• Best Abstract by a Student/New Professional Award - Antoinette M. Landor, University of Georgia
  "Predictors of Psychological and Health Risk Outcomes Among African-American Emerging Adults: Examining Skin Tone, Parenting, and Racial Factors"
• Anselm Strauss Award - QFRN Focus Group - Jennifer Davis, David B. Ward, Cheryl Storm,
  Pacific Lutheran University
  "The Unsilencing of Military Wives: Wartime Deployment Experiences and Citizen Responsibility"
  
• Best New Professional Research Article Award - Men in Families Focus Group - Sarah Elizabeth Killoren, University of Missouri; Kimberly A. Updegraff, Arizona State University; F. Scott Christopher, Arizona State University; Adriana Umana-Taylor, Arizona State University
  "The Family and Cultural Context of Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Sibling Relaionships"
  
• Best Research Article Award - Men in Families Focus Group - M. Katherine Hutchinson and Julie A. Cederbaum, Boston College
  

See the December Report for complete details of award winners.