2025 Award Recipients Honored, 2026 Nominations Open

Each year, SIOP and the SIOP Foundation present numerous awards recognizing excellence in professional and student work.

We are now accepting nominations for the SIOP and SIOP Foundation Distinguished Awards, Achievement and Best Paper Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships, and Research Grants. The deadline for all awards is Monday, June 30, 2025. Please visit the SIOP Awards webpage to learn more about the awards and nomination process and view past award winners.

Below, we highlight the recent award winners once again:

SIOP Distinguished Awards are given in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding contributions or distinguished early career contributions to the practice or science of industrial and organizational psychology; sustained, significant, and outstanding service to SIOP; a sustained record of excellence in the teaching of I-O psychology; or sustained, significant, and outstanding humanitarian contributions related to I-O psychology.

2025 SIOP Distinguished and Career Award Recipients include:

• Distinguished Professional Practice Contributions: William Shepherd, PhD, & Vicki Vandaveer, PhD
• Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Tammy Allen, PhD
• Distinguished Early Career Contributions–Practice: Kevin Stanek, PhD
• Distinguished Early Career Contributions–Science: Szu-Han Lin, PhD
• Distinguished Service Contributions: Tara Behrend, PhD
• Distinguished Teaching Contributions: Philip Podsakoff, PhD
• Wayne Cascio Scientist-Practitioner: Gerald Barrett, PhD
• Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen and Dr. John P. Campbell Career Achievement in Mentoring Award (NEW): Rick Jacobs, PhD

The Achievement and Best Paper Award category recognizes outstanding achievements and publications in industrial-organizational psychology. It highlights the development of scientific knowledge, practical relevance, and rigorous research methods central to the field. The awards are designed to honor graduate scholars and practitioners who contribute to workforce improvement through data-driven insights and pedagogical advancements.

2025 SIOP Achievement and Best Paper Award Recipients include:

• S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award
  Jenna McChesney for her dissertation, “Is it #okaytosay I have anxiety and depression? Evaluations of job applicants who disclose mental health problems on LinkedIn.”
• William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award
  Danielle King, Elisa Fattoracci, David Hollingsworth, Elliot Stahr, and Melinda Nelson for the article “When thriving requires effortful surviving: Delineating manifestations and resource expenditure outcomes of microaggressions for Black employees.”
• M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Psychology in the Workplace for Amazon’s Constructed Response Assessment Project
  The Research Team includes John F. Capman, Denver McNeney, Emran Mohammad Abu Anas, Mengqiao (MQ) Liu, Matthew Kitching, and Anthony S. Boyce.
• Raymond A. Katzell Public Impact Award
  Christiane Spitzmüller, Erika Henderson, Juan Madera, and Michelle Penn-Marshall, for the publication “Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the U.S. Face Double Standard in Promotion and Tenure Decisions,” and their work at the Center for Equity in Faculty Advancement (CEFA).
• Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance
  Loes Abrahams, Jasmine Vergauwe, and Filip De Fruyt for their article “Within-person personality variability in the work context: A blessing or a curse for job performance?”
• Wiley Award for Excellence in Organizational Surveys
  Charlene Zhang and Paul R. Sackett for “Planned missingness: An underused but practical approach to reducing survey and test length.”
• Jeanneret Award for Excellence in the Study of Individual or Group Assessment
  Nan Zhang, Mo Wang, Heng Xu, Nick Koenig, Louis Hickman, Jason Kuruzovich, Vincent Ng, Kofi Arhin, Danielle Wilson, Q. Chelsea Song, Chen Tang, Leo Alexander III, and Yesuel Kim for their article “Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning.”
• Schmidt-Hunter Meta-Analysis Award
  Yi-Ren Wang, Michael Ford, Marcus Credé, Peter Harms, and Paul Lester for their publication “A meta-analysis on the crossover of workplace traumatic stress symptoms between partners.”
• Joel Lefkowitz Early Career Award for Humanistic I-O Psychology
  Danielle M. Gardner for her work on topics relevant to the advancement of workplace equity.

SIOP also presents awards in the categories of Research Grants and Scholarships and Fellowships. More information on these winners is available in the 2025 SIOP Salutes brochure.