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Working with Distinguished Professor of Psychology Patrick Corrigan, Maya Al-Khouja created the Honest Open Proud (HOP) college program as a student at ������ƵAPP.

HOP is a peer-led program that aims to replace the stigma of mental illness with the beliefs of recovery, empowerment, and hope for college students with mental illness. The program has grown beyond ������ƵAPP and is being tested at other universities across the United States.

Among Al-Khouja’s other achievements as a student at ������ƵAPP, she was selected as one of the 2016 outstanding college students honored by the Lincoln Academy of ������ƵAPP. The organization’s Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Awards are presented for excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities to seniors from each of the state’s four-year, degree-granting colleges and universities, and one student from the community colleges in ������ƵAPP.

“I’m optimistic about getting into and succeeding in graduate school because of all the research experience I have from ������ƵAPP,” Al-Khouja says. “Working as a student researcher under Professor Patrick Corrigan for three years has given me many publications and conference presentations that make me a more prepared student than most.”