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Powell Receives Award for Best Practice Article
Mar. 24, 2016
Dr. Sarah Powell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education, has been selected to receive the Samuel A. Kirk award for Learning Disabilities Research & Practice during 2015. In the article, Powell and her co-author (Dr. Lynn Fuchs from Vanderbilt University) provide educators with essential elements of mathematics instruction…

Special Education Graduate Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
Feb. 19, 2016
President Obama has named Department of Special Education graduate Chris Lemons as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is “the highest honor given by the U.S. Government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.”…