Sarah Liu
MA psychology student Sarah Liu has won the Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles award for June.
The $1,000 prize, given out by the Fonds de recherche du Québec –– Santé on a monthly basis, is for Liu’s award-winning study, “Self-esteem change and diurnal cortisol secretion in older adulthood.” The study, done together with her Concordia supervisor Carsten Wrosch and colleagues from Northwestern University and McGill University, was published earlier this year in the academic journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
The goal of the award is to recognize exceptional contributions to research at the post-secondary level, as well as to promote careers in research in Québec.
“Sometimes as grad students we get bogged down in our work and don’t see the ways in which our research is moving forward,” Liu says. “This type of recognition is definitely a boost.”
Liu will begin work on her PhD at Concordia this fall and will continue to research the way self esteem can play a role in alleviating the health problems that stem from stressful life circumstances in the Canadian population.
Read more about Sarah’s research with the Centre for Research in Human Development.