Dr. Efthymia (Effie) Kapnoula has won the D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize for 2016 in the Social Sciences. The award recognizes the excellence of her doctoral dissertation, entitled, “Individual Differences in Speech Perception Sources, Functions, and Consequences of Phoneme Categorization Gradiency.”
The winner of the Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize receives $2,500 and becomes the University of Iowa’s nominee in the national competition for the 2016 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Kapnoula will also be honored at the James F. Jakobsen Memorial Graduate Research Conference Award Ceremony and Reception on March 25, 2017.
Kapnoula’s dissertation was supervised by Professor Bob McMurray. This award adds to a long list of Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize winners in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.