This award is bestowed upon a Walden student whose dissertation is judged as meeting the highest university standards of academic excellence.
It honors the dedicated life and distinguished career of one of the nation’s foremost experts in demography, Dr. Harold L. Hodgkinson, who also played an instrumental role in the establishment and academic development of this university.
Faculty nominate students for this award.
Eric Sarrett, Ph.D.
College of Health Sciences and Public Policy
William Besselink, PhD
Data Modeling of Cognitive Structure in Physiotherapy Students Learning Gross Anatomy
College of Education
Dr. Elizabeth Duemig
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Todd Blum
College of Health Professions
Sarah V. Silva, PhD, LCPC, NCC
A Canonical Correlation Analysis of Self-Compassion, Life-Balance, and Burnout in Counselors
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Dana Marie Dillard
The Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping: Predicting Posttraumatic Distress in Telecommunicators
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Lily Giang-Tien Gossage, PhD
Work-Life Balance of Tenured and Tenure-Track Women Engineering Professors
Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership
David Takudzwa Zinyengere, PhD
Household Determinates of Malaria in Mutasa District of Zimbabwe
College of Health Professions
Wilfred Hing Sang Wong, PhD
The Association Between Child Abuse and Attempted Suicide in Hong Kong
School of Health Sciences
College of Health Professions
John R. Buhmeyer, PhD
Pain Management, Gender, and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients
School of Health Sciences
College of Health Professions
Carol Ikard, PhD
The Aesthetic Experience, Flow and Smart Technology: Viewing Art in a Virtual Environment
Lori Salgado, PhD
School of Public Policy and Administration
Experiences of Colorado Parents as They Recognized Their Child’s Mental Illness
Ardian Shajkovci, PhD
Radicalization and Safety and Security in the Balkans: An Ethnographic Study
Wayne A. Wallace, PhD
The Effect of Confirmation Bias on Criminal Investigative Decision Making
Stacey Pilling, PhD
A Qualitative Analysis of Migrant Women Farmworkers’ Perceptions of Maternal Care Management
Joshua M. Garrin, PhD
School of Psychology
Inspiring Change: Exercise Self-Efficacy, Dispositional Optimism and Perceived Stress in College Seniors
Dr. Carl Eckrode
Dr. Christopher Charles Plum
Dr. Lydia Apori-Nkansah
Dr. Ronald Paige
Dr. Nancy Musarra
Dr. Stan Amaladas
Dr. Janet Pershing