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Gregory Russell Samanez-Larkin

Jack H. Neely Associate Professor
Psychology & Neuroscience
LSRC, Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708
LSRC, Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


Top 5% of all undergraduate instructors in the Natural Sciences for Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instruction, Fall 2019

University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University · April 2020 Each semester, the Trinity College Office of Assessment administers course evaluations to document this component of our students’ experience. During the 2019 fall semester, in the categories of Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instructor, your course evaluations for at least one course were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors teaching in the Natural Sciences.

Top 5% of all undergraduate instructors in the Natural Sciences for Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instruction, Spring 2019

University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University · September 2019 Each semester, the Trinity College Office of Assessment administers course evaluations to document this component of our students’ experience. During the 2019 spring semester, in the categories of Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instructor, your course evaluations for at least one course were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors teaching in the Natural Sciences.

Randolph Blake Early Career Award

Department Vanderbilt University Psychological Sciences · 2019 The program in Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt established The Randolph Blake Early Career Award to recognize exemplary alumni of our program in the early stages of their career. The recipient receives a plaque, a $500 award, and an invitation to give a research colloquium at Vanderbilt. The nominee must have been an undergraduate, graduate student or postdoc. This award honors Randolph Blake as a distinguished Vanderbilt alumnus, as an outstanding researcher and mentor, and as a former chair of the Department of Psychology who served in that role during some of the most important years of its growth. More about this award

Early Career Award

International Society for Neuroeconomics · 2019 Awardees demonstrate significant contributions to understanding the neural basis of decision making or the impact of this knowledge on formal understanding of decision behavior. Two awards granted each year include a monetary prize and plaque presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society. Eligible candidates are active members of the Society for NeuroEconomics who have completed their PhD and are up to and including 7 years into their faculty position or 10 years after the completion of their PhD as of the time they are considered. More about this award

Top 5% of all undergraduate instructors in the Natural Sciences for Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instruction, Spring 2018

University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University · June 2018 Each semester, the Trinity College Office of Assessment administers course evaluations to document this component of our students’ experience. During the 2018 spring semester, in the categories of Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instructor, your course evaluations for at least one course were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors teaching in the Natural Sciences.

Top 5% of all undergraduate instructors in the Natural Sciences for Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instruction, Fall 2017

University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University · April 2018 Each semester, the Trinity College Office of Assessment administers course evaluations to document this component of our students’ experience. During the 2017 fall semester, in the categories of Overall Quality of Course and/or Overall Quality of Instructor, your course evaluations for at least one course were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors teaching in the Natural Sciences.

Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching

University Yale University · 2015 More about this award

Rising Star

International Association for Psychological Science · 2012 More about this award

Albert H. and Barbara R. Hastorf Prize for Teaching

Department Stanford University Department of Psychology · 2010

Doctoral Dissertation Award in the Psychology of Aging

International American Psychological Association, Division 20 · 2010 This award recognizes a doctoral student or recent graduate for exemplary research contributing to theory or practice of adult development and aging. More about this award

Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences

National Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest · 2010 First presented in 1981 and sponsored jointly by CGS and ProQuest Dissertations Publishing (a Division of ProQuest Information and Learning), these awards are made each year to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. More about this award

W.B. Pillsbury Distinguished Thesis Award

Department University of Michigan Department of Psychology · 2002

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