The Frank Prize in Public Interest research was established in 2014 by the University of Florida and named in honor of social change pioneer Frank Karel.Frank Prize, University of Florida (http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/prize/about-the-prize/ ) The award is given out annually for research that advances public interest communications around positive social change, including issues such as education, health, politics, and the environment.Conveners.org (https://conveners.org/cpb/dec-1-frank-research-prize-in-public-interest-communications/) According to the website,[About the Frank Prize, http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/prize/about-the-prize/ ] the prize "celebrates peer-reviewed research that informs the growing discipline of public interest communications". Eligible disciplines include psychology, neuroscience, public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, sociology, communications, public health, and political science. After two rounds of independent review by a panel of scholars and practitioners, three awards are made each year with a top financial prize of $10,000.[College Awards $10K Frank Research Prize (https://www.jou.ufl.edu/2016/03/10/college-awards-10k-frank-prize-to-oregon-duke-professors/)[Meet the 2017 Prize Winners (http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/2017/01/2017-prize-research/ ) Recipients present their research at the annual Frank Scholar conference organized by the University of Florida. Notable behavioral science scholars such as Paul Slovic and Dan Ariely have presented at the conference.[Slovic (https://vimeo.com/156638027)[Ariely(http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/gather/frank2017/ )
Recipients 2023 Dr. Teresa I. Gonzales, Loyola University of Chicago Elizabeth M. Thissell, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia Soumitra Thorat, King’s College London
2022 Dr. Jillian Fish, University of Florida Payton Counts, University of Florida
2021 Dr. Allissa V. Richardson, USC Annenberg Ryan J. Gallagher, Elizabeth Stowell, Andrea Parker, and Brooke Foucault Welles Omar Wasow
2020 Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge Prof. van der Linden and Jon Roozenbeek, University of Florida
2019 Jeremy Yip, Georgetown University
2018 Chelsea Schein and Kurt Gray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2017 Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University
2016 Troy Campbell,[Campbell Frank Prize (https://business.uoregon.edu/news/happier-humans-better-world//) University of Oregon Julia Fraustino, West Virginia University Jeff Niederdeppe, Cornell University
2015 Sara Bleich,[Bleich wins prestigious award (http://www.besttrust.org/b-e-s-t-alumna-sara-bleich-96-wins-prestigious-award//) Johns Hopkins University David Sleeth-Keppler, Humboldt State University Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College
2014 Jina Yoo, Washington University in St. Louis Frank Edwards, University of Washington Jennifer Chun, University of Toronto
See also
List of psychology awards
References