Effua Sosoo, a graduate student in Clinical Psychology, is a recipient of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) Student Circle’s 2017 Black Ribbon Scholarship Graduate Research Award.
The Student Circle boasts a membership of several hundred students located on college campuses nationwide and members are undergraduate and graduate students in psychology. The ABPsi’s Student Circle seeks to increase the participation of Black students in research and scholarship, to enhance the professional development of Black students, and to increase the overall number of Black clinicians and professionals within the field of psychology via scholarship and award opportunities.
The Black Ribbon Scholarship Graduate Research Award aims to fund graduate student research related to issues within the Black community, especially rigorous, innovative studies and proposals that might not otherwise be conducted without this award.