Awards & Fellows: Senior Scientist Award

Each year the Division of School Psychology presents a Senior Scientist in School Psychology Award to a mature professional and academic school psychologist who has demonstrated a program of scholarship which merits special recognition. A sustained program of scholarship of exceptional quality throughout one's career is the primary consideration in making the award. The award recipient's program of work should reflect systematic and imaginative use of psychological theory and research in furthering the development of professional practice and/or consistent empirical inquiry that bears on the quality of school psychology training and practice. The program of scholarly work should be of exceptional quality in its contribution to the scientific knowledge base of school psychology training/practice. Nominees must be either 20 years past the granting of their doctoral degree or at least 50 years old by December 31 in the year nominated.

Five sets of material should be forwarded on each nominee, including a vita, supporting letters (minimum of three signed letters), five major publications, and contact information for the nominee, nominator and letter writers.  All nominations and related materials must be submitted by March 15 to Sandra L. Christenson, Committee Chair (c/o chris002@umn.edu).  Electronic submission is strongly encouraged.  Please notify Dr. Christenson if materials will be submitted via hard copy.  Mailing address is: Department of Educational Psychology, School Psychology Program, University of Minnesota, 344 Education Sciences Building, 56 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN, 55455. 

Past Recipients

1993 Richard Woodcock
1994 Barry J. Zimmerman
1995 Tom Kratochwill
1996 Arnold Goldstein
1997 Alan Kaufman
1998 Jerome Sattler
1999 Terry Gutkin and Cecil Reynolds
2000 Thomas Oakland
2001 Jack Naglieri
2002 George Hynd
2003 Frank Gresham
2004 Timothy Keith
2005 Nadine Lambert
2006 Ed Shapiro
2007 Sandra L. Christenson
2007 Jan N. Hughes
2008 Bruce Bracken
2008 George DuPaul