Leadership Award: This will be awarded to the student who demonstrates excellent experiences in guiding, coaching, influencing, recruiting, retaining and/or enhancing the training of Asian American students on/off campus, and/or the student who shows excellent experiences in Asian American students’ program/organization development and leadership in order to enhance the voice of Asian American students on/off campus

Research Award: This will be awarded to the student who demonstrates outstanding research that will enhance the psychological and social understanding of Asian American issues; who develops a program that improves the psychological service-delivery to Asian American groups; who has developed original concepts/theories relevant to Asian Americans, and/or the student who has developed methodological paradigms that promote effective research and understanding of Asian American communities.

The research award also encourages undergraduate research projects or any type of student initiated research. Graduate thesis or dissertations are excluded for this award. Applicants should also submit their research proposal or completed project along with the application materials described above.

Service Award: This award is for the student who demonstrates extensive experiences and commitment in working with an Asian American community, preferably an underserved population, to promote the mental health and psychological understanding of that group.