Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

Members of the Subcommittee

Final year Co-Chairs
2024 Julia Plummer (Chair) Penn State University
2025 David C. Owens (Co-Chair) University of Montana
  Members  
2024 Judith Lederman Illinois Institute of Technology
2024 Jayma Koval Georgia Technical University
2024 Michael Zion Bar Ilan University, Israel
2025 Annabel Stoler Boston University
2025 Guopeng Fu East China Normal University
2025 Eunjin Bahng Iowa State University
2025 Nilay Ozturk Kirsehir Ahi Evran University
2025 Maia Elkana Washington University St. Louis
2026 Colby Tofel-Grehl Utah State University
2026 David Stroupe Michigan State University
2026 Dina Tsybulsky Technion
2026 Noemi Waight University at Buffalo
2026 Mindy Chappell Portland State University
  Board Member Liaison
2025 Amelia Gotwals Michigan State University

Past Award Recipients

Year Awardee Advisor
2023 Gary Wright III Cesar Delgado
2022 Won Jung Kim Angela Calabrese Barton and Alicia Alonzo
2021 Eben Witherspoon Christian D. Schunn
2020 Neta Shaby Orit Ben Zvi-Assaraf and Tali Tal
2019 Anita S. Tseng Jonathan F. Osborne
2018 Katherine Wade-Jaimes Renée Schwartz
2017 Anita Schuchardt Christian Schunn
2016 Anna MacPherson Jonathan Osborne
2015 Allison Godwin Geoffrey Potvin
2014 Daniel Birmingham Angela Calabrese Barton and Anne-Lise Halvorsen
2013 Lori Fulton Jian Wang
2012 Melissa Braaten Mark Windschitl
2011 Catherine Eberbach Kevin Crowley
2011 Jeffrey J. Rozelle Suzanne M. Wilson
2010 Heather Toomey Zimmerman Phillip Bell
2009 Lei Liu Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
2008 Victor Sampson Douglas Clark
2007 Julia Plummer Joseph S. Krajcik
2006 Stacy Olitsky Kenneth Tobin
2005 Thomas Tretter Gail M. Jones
2004 David L. Fortus Ronald Marx and Joseph Krajcik
2003 Hsin-Kai Wu Joseph Krajcik
2002 Mark Girod David Wong
2001 Iris Tabak Brian Reiser
2000 Danielle Joan Ford Annemarie S. Palinscar
1999 Fouad Abd-El-Khalick Norman G. Lederman
1998 Kathleen Hogan Bonnie K. Nastasi
1997 Jane O. Larson Ronald D. Anderson
1996 Christine M. Cunningham William L. Carlsen
1995 Jerome M. Shaw Edward Haertel
1994 Carolyn W. Keys Burton E. Voss
1993 Julie Gess-Newsome Norman G. Lederman
1992 René Stofflett Dale R. Baker