Awards & Fellows: Senior Scientist Award

The Division of School Psychology (Division 16) of the American Psychological Association requests nominations for the 2008 Senior Scientist Award. This award is presented to school psychologists who throughout their careers have demonstrated exceptional programs of scholarship that merit special recognition. This is not an award necessarily for the amount of writing done by a scholar, but rather for a sustained program of outstanding theoretical and research activity. Nominees must be (a) either 20 years past the granting of their doctoral degree or at least 50 years old by December 31 in the year nominated for the award, and (b) a Fellow, Member, or Associate of Division 16. The award recipient will be asked to accept the award at the division business meeting at the APA annual convention, present an address at the subsequent APA Division Awards Symposium, and may be asked to serve on a committee to select subsequent award winners. Anyone, including a candidate him or herself, may nominate a school psychologist for the award. In order for nominators and those providing supporting documentation to be notified of results along with those nominated, please submit full contact information for all involved on a contact sheet included with the application portfolio. For this purpose, it is preferred that you use the Excel sheet available at http://www.indiana.edu/~div16/Nominator_Nominee_contact_sheet.xls. The complete sets of materials should be sent as a hard copy portfolio or on CD only. Five sets of materials should be forwarded on each nominee, including a vita, supporting letters (minimum of three signed letters), five major papers, and contact information for the nominee, nominator and letter writers so they may receive results. All nominations and related materials should be submitted by March 15, 2008 to the committee chair, Thomas Power, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP North - 1471, 34th St. & Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (power@email.chop.edu).

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