title: APA/Psi Chi Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award: Meghan H. Puglia.
abstract: The Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award is given jointly by Psi Chi and APA. The award was established to recognize young researchers at the beginning of their professional lives and to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of Psi Chi and the 100th anniversary of psychology as a science (dating from the founding of Wundt's laboratory). The 2016 recipient is Meghan H. Puglia, who was chosen for "an outstanding foundational research paper that establishes a relationship between a functional epigenetic modification to the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and neural response during social perception." Puglia's award citation, biography, and bibliography are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000266:history*; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000266:history*; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018045:Receptors, Oxytocin / Q000235:genetics; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States
chemical_list: C569600:OXTR protein, human; D018045:Receptors, Oxytocin