Krista Ottino, Ed.D. graduate in educational administration from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has received the Dissertation of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Research on the Superintendency special interest group for her dissertation titled Diminished Aspiration: Women Central Office Administrators and the Superintendency. Krista will receive her award at the Spring 2010 meeting of AERA in Denver, Colorado. Professor Cryss Brunner served as her adviser.