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Senior Thesis Awards (click on thesis title to download a PDF of the thesis)
2008
John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Robert Piller, Cerebral Specialization during Lucid Dreaming: A Right Hemisphere Hypothesis
Elise Rosa, The Impact of Aging on Emotion in Language Production
Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Laura McPherson, A Descriptive and Theoretical Account of Luganda Verbal Morphology
Karen Kossuth Prize for most innovative Linguistics thesis:
Elizabeth Hamilton, Trans Tactics: Gender Construction by Transgender Speakers of American English
2007
John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Stephen Conn, Critiquing Findings of Depressive Realism in Contingency Judgment Tasks: Examining the Effects of Outcome Density and Response Rate
Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Hannah Pick, Mexican-American Chicago English (MACE): A case study of four speakers
