Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research

Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research

Members of the Subcommittee

Final yearChairs
2024Xiufeng Liu (Chair)University of Buffalo
2025Mei-Hung Chiu (Co-Chair)National Taiwan Normal University
 Members
2024Dana ZeidlerUniversity of South Florida
2024Valarie AkersonIndiana University
2024Justin DillonExeter University, UK
2025Kathy TrundleUtah State University
2026Carla JohnsonNC State University
2026Gail JonesNC State University
2026Saouma BouJaoudeAmerican University of Beirut, Lebanon
 Board Member Liaison
2025Amelia GotwalsMichigan State University

Past Award Recipients

YearAwardee 
2024Angela Calabrese Barton
Julie Luft
 
2023Franz Bogner
Okhee Lee
 
2022Gail Jones
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
 
2021Valarie Akerson
Gregory J. Kelly
 
2020Yehudit Judy Dori
Saouma B. BouJaoude
 
2019Mary M. Atwater
Maria Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre
 
2018Marissa Rollnick
Jonathan Osborne
 
2017Avi Hofstein 
2016Lynn D. Dierking
John H. Falk
Dana L. Zeidler
 
2015Richard A. Duschl
Meshach Mobolaji Ogunniyi
 
2014Frances Lawrenz
Glen Aikenhead
Richard Gunstone
 
2013Dale Baker 
2012Charles W. (Andy) Anderson
Larry Yore
 
2011Norman Lederman 
2010Reinders Duit
Joseph Krajcik
 
2009Peter W. Hewson
Léonie Jean Rennie
Wolff-Michael Roth
 
2008Dorothy Gabel 
2007Kenneth Tobin 
2006David Treagust 
2005John C. Clement 
2004Robert E. Yager
Paul Black
 
2003Barry J. Fraser 
2002Audrey B. Champagne 
2001John K. Gilbert 
2000Jane Butler Kahle 
1999Peter J. Fensham 
1998James J. Gallagher 
1997Rosalind Driver 
1996Carl F. Berger 
1995Wayne W. Welch 
1994Marcia C. Linn 
1993Jack Easley, Jr. 
1992Pinchas Tamir 
1991Robert L. Shrigley 
1990Joseph D. Novak 
1989Willard Jacobson 
1988John W. Renner 
1987Paul DeHart Hurd 
1986Anton E. Lawson