Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
Members of the Subcommittee | ||
| Final year | Chairs | |
| 2026 | Dina Tsybulsky (Chair) | Technion, Israel | 
| 2027 | Julianne Wenner (Incoming Chair) | Clemson University | 
| Members | ||
| 2026 | Stephanie Batres Spezza | University of Illinois - Chicago | 
| 2026 | Noemi Waight | University at Buffalo | 
| 2026 | Mindy Chappell | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 
| 2026 | David Stroupe | University of Utah | 
| 2027 | Tamar Fuhrmann | Teachers College/Columbia University | 
| 2028 | Simone Gyles | University of California, Irvine | 
| 2028 | Shelley Rap | Weizmann Institute of Science | 
| 2028 | Nena Anand | Midway University | 
| 2028 | Lama Jaber | Florida State University | 
| 2028 | Tammie Visintainer | San Jose State University | 
| 2028 | Ayça K. Fackler | University of Missouri | 
| 2028 | Li Ke | University of Washington | 
| 2028 | Shannon Davidson | University of Alabama | 
| Board Member Liaison | ||
| Shari Watkins | American University | |
Past Award Recipients | ||
| Year | Awardee | Advisor | 
| 2025 | Daniel Pimentel | Janet Carlson and Bryan Brown | 
| Samuel Lee | Katherine L. McNeill | |
| 2024 | Grace Carroll | Soonhye Park | 
| 2024 | Rende Mendoza | Carla Johnson | 
| 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 |