The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently announced that alumni Doug and Lynn Fuchs, educational psychology Ph.D.s ’78 and ’81, are winners of its 2014 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award. AERA will honor the recipients at a ceremony on April 5 at the AERA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
“We are proud to honor the outstanding commitment and accomplishments of this year’s award winners,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine. “Through their scholarship and service to the field, they stand as exemplars to AERA’s 25,000 members and to all who are committed to the study and practice of education in the United States and elsewhere.”
Along with Adam Gamoran of the William T. Grant Foundation, the Fuchs will be honored through this award for their outstanding achievement and success in education research.
Today, Lynn leads a program of research on math disabilities while Doug concentrates more on reading disabilities. Both are Nicholas Hobbs Professors of Special Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.
In 2009, Forbes magazine named Doug and Lynn Fuchs as two of 14 revolutionary educators. Thomson Reuters identified them among the 250 most frequently-cited researchers in the social sciences in the United States in the decade from 2000 to 2010.
