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Overview
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.
Recipients
2025
Winter
Emma J. Smith, Ph.D.
College of Social and Behavioral Health
2024
Summer
Emmanuel Oppong, PhD
Acculturation Stress and the Coping Skills of African Immigrant Men in the United States
College of Psychology and Community Services
2024
Winter
Godfrey Ddungu, PhD
An Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Individuals Living With HIV/AIDS in Rural Uganda
College of Social and Behavioral Health
2023
Summer
Natasha Blue, Ph.D.
College of Psychology and Community Services
2022
Winter
Eric Sarrett, Ph.D.
College of Health Sciences and Public Policy
2022
Winter
William Besselink, PhD
Data Modeling of Cognitive Structure in Physiotherapy Students Learning Gross Anatomy
College of Education
2022
Summer
Donna Johnson, PhD
2021
Summer
Dr. Elizabeth Duemig
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Winter
Dr. Todd Blum
College of Health Professions
2020
Summer
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
Winter
Dr. Dana Marie Dillard
The Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping: Predicting Posttraumatic Distress in Telecommunicators
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2019
Summer
Lily Giang-Tien Gossage, PhD
Work-Life Balance of Tenured and Tenure-Track Women Engineering Professors
Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership
Winter
David Takudzwa Zinyengere, PhD
Household Determinates of Malaria in Mutasa District of Zimbabwe
College of Health Professions
2018
Summer
Wilfred Hing Sang Wong, PhD
The Association Between Child Abuse and Attempted Suicide in Hong Kong
School of Health Sciences
College of Health Professions
Winter
John R. Buhmeyer, PhD
Pain Management, Gender, and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients
School of Health Sciences
College of Health Professions
2017
Summer
Carol Ikard, PhD
The Aesthetic Experience, Flow and Smart Technology: Viewing Art in a Virtual Environment
Winter
Lori Salgado, PhD
School of Public Policy and Administration
Experiences of Colorado Parents as They Recognized Their Child’s Mental Illness
2016
Summer
Ardian Shajkovci, PhD
Radicalization and Safety and Security in the Balkans: An Ethnographic Study
Winter
Wayne A. Wallace, PhD
The Effect of Confirmation Bias on Criminal Investigative Decision Making
2015
Summer
Stacey Pilling, PhD
A Qualitative Analysis of Migrant Women Farmworkers’ Perceptions of Maternal Care Management
Winter
Joshua M. Garrin, PhD
School of Psychology
Inspiring Change: Exercise Self-Efficacy, Dispositional Optimism and Perceived Stress in College Seniors
2014
2013
2012
2010
Dr. Carl Eckrode
2009
Dr. Christopher Charles Plum
2008
Dr. Lydia Apori-Nkansah
2007
Dr. Ronald Paige
2006
Dr. Nancy Musarra
2005
Dr. Stan Amaladas
2004
Dr. Janet Pershing