Early Career Research Award

Montgomery Van Wart (public administration), Jacob Jones (psychology), Yawen Li, (social work), Zachary Powell (criminal justice) and Brian Levin (criminal justice) were included in recent news coverage.

Jacob Jones will receive the Western Psychological Association’s (WPA) Early Career Research Award, which is given to a WPA member relatively early in their career (10 years or fewer post-doctorate) who has demonstrated outstanding promise in research, in publishing articles, chapters, and books, and success in obtaining grants for research.