Convention Scholarships
Student Scholarship | Diversity Scholarship | Early Career Scholarship | Scholarship Winners
If you are planning on applying or if you have already applied for a scholarship DO NOT register for the 2025 SPA Convention until notifications have been sent out in early December. If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact our office at info@personality.org.
As a reminder, your may only be awarded ONE SPA scholarship at a time. All Scholarship notifications have been sent out!
Student Scholarship
September 17, 2024 - November 24, 2024
In an effort to encourage training of students and promote student participation in research and scholarly presentation in the area of personality assessment, SPA has created scholarships opportunities to attend the 2025 SPA Convention and Workshops. This $375.00 scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration and one night hotel. International applicants may be awarded an additional travel stipend of up to $400 depending on the stated need and the number of applications received.
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration and one night in the hotel.
- International applicants may be awarded an additional travel stipend of up to $400 depending on the stated need and the number of applications received.
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 15, 2025 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
Diversity Scholarship
September 17, 2024 - November 24, 2024
As part of its overall commitment to diversity, SPA is now offering diversity scholarships of up to $1,100.00 to support diverse professionals or students involved in personality assessment who seek to attend the 2025 SPA Convention and Workshops. This scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night hotel, and up to $500 for reimbursable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel, food). Additional funds for expenses may be given if registering at a lower rate.
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night in the hotel, and up to $500 in reimbursable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel expenses, food expenses).
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 15, 2025 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
Early-Career Scholarship
September 17, 2024 - November 24, 2024
In an effort to encourage early career participation in the practice, research, and scholarly engagement in the area of personality assessment, SPA has created scholarships opportunities to attend the 2025 SPA Convention and Workshops. This $650.00 scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration and one night hotel. International applicants may be awarded an additional travel stipend of up to $800 depending on the stated need and the number of applications received.
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night in the hotel, and up to $150 in reimburseable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel expenses, food expenses).
- International applicants may be awarded an additional travel stipend of up to $800 depending on the stated need and the number of applications received.
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 15, 2025 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
2025 Student Scholarship Winners
2025 Diversity Scholarship Winners
2025 Early-Career Scholarship Winners
View All Previous Scholarship Winners Below. Please note, only those who gave permission to be listed on our website are found below.
| Year | Winners |
| 2024 | Connor Adams, JJ Boland, Dallas Boyce, Hannah Holmes, Rita Pasion, and Caitlyn Ramberg. |
| 2023 | JJ Boland, Hilary Lea DeShong, Emily Ann Dowgwillo, Adam Paul Natoli, Tiffany D. Russell, Sylvia Ryszewska, Corby Thompson, and Courtney Wiesepape |
| 2022 | Francesca Ales, Miles Philip Broadbery, Emily Ann Dowgwillo, Adam Paul Natoli, and Jared Ruchensky. |
| Year |
Winners |
| 2024 |
Molly Armstrong, Hannah Asis, Martina Camelio, John Cromb, William Foster, Lauren Kennedy, Anne Nickell, and Mattea Parker. |
| 2023 |
Jen YZ Ang, Sophie Bella, Hannah Benemann, Lorenzo Brienza, Rachel Davenport, Ezra Ellenberg, Ashmita Ghosh, Katie Glauner, Che Harris, Sarah Hernandez, Christine Hujing, Megan Alexis Keen, Michael LeDuc, Brooklyn Lesure, Hadley McCartin, Olivia Nelson, Chloe O'Dell, Elizabeth Papagni, Kirstie Pysher, Abbey Robbins, Chloe Rodriguez, Nicole Shumaker, Shayon Tayebi, Brooke Tompkins, and Lisa Rose Vassiliadis. |
| 2022 |
Michael Ahrenholtz, Jen YZ Ang, Emily Barni, Grace Boland, Youn Ji Grace Choi, Alison Concannon, Emily Crew, Dominique Ghirardi, Sarah Gottlieb, Natalie Guggino, Keefe Maccarone, Julianna Nails, John Thomas Rucker, Brooke Tompkins, Lisa Rose Vassiliadis, Enrico Vitolo, Rachel Wagner, Allison Warner, Megan Rose Whitman, and Leila Z. Wu. |
| 2021 |
| Year | Winners |
| 2024 | Essie Asan, Caroline Carmody, ABM Rezbaul Islam, Edleen De Jesus-Sanchez, Peggah Khalili-Tari, Kenneth Montemayor, Tia Nicolas, Danna Ramirez, Zeynap Sen, Krystal Smith, and Ziqi Wu. |
| 2023 | Anita Batuure, Cristina Culler, Brianna Davis, Sarah Gottlieb, Tina Greene, Shichie Kuribayashi, Casey Lee, Seiji Mabuchi, Ilenia Perez-Palen, Ashlinn Peters, Aakriti Prasai, Danna Ramirez, Bryce Robinson, Prathma Sharma, Stephanie Strong, Taylor Renee Rodriguez, Ethan Xiong, Shangyun Zhou |
| 2022 | Dalal Alhomaizi, Isra Dar, Raja M. David, Hilary Lea DeShong, Whitney Erby, Amanda Flake, Ashmista Ghosh, Sarah Hernandez, Saba Masood, Ruam Pimentel, Manizeh Raza, Chloe Rodriguez, Vanessa Shafa, Ryan Van Fossen, Shelby Cheyanne Vaughn, Alicia Wilhelmina Villanueva van den Hurk. |