Camelia Hostinar, (ICD 2013), has won the University of Minnesota Graduate School’s Best Dissertation Award in the Social and Behavioral Sciences for 2014. The winners of this prestigious award are chosen for the substantive quality and the methodology of the dissertation, while selection is based on the originality and importance of the research, and the potential for the student to make an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Hostinar now holds a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Policy Research  at Northwestern University.

Upon learning of the award, Hostinar congratulated her faculty mentor, Megan Gunnar, Regents Professor and Director of the Institute of Child Development, saying,  “This truly is a joint award. Without your amazing mentorship during the whole dissertation process, this never would have happened!”

Hostinar’s dissertation is entitled: The Impacts of Social Support and Early Life Stress on Stress Reactivity in Children and Adolescents. The Best Disseration Award carries a $1,000. honorarium. Congratulations, Cam!