Dr. Sarah Powell has been named the recipient of the CEC Division for Research 2018 Distinguished Early Career Research Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding scientific contributions in basic and/or applied research in special education within the first 10 years after receiving the doctoral degree.
Dr. Powell received her doctorate in 2009 in special education from Vanderbilt University, Peabody College of Education, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Powell is one of, if not the, most promising young scholars in the area of mathematics education and high incidence disabilities. Her mathematics intervention work is theoretically based and gaining considerable recognition in the United States and internationally. She has published extensively in top tier journals, such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Exceptional Children, Learning and Individual Differences, and Elementary School Journal. She has also published multiple book chapters and a textbook, and makes numerous presentations yearly at national conferences. Additionally, she has been able to secure highly competitive grants from the Institute for Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, and Spencer Foundation to support her research. Dr. Powell’s scholarly accomplishments are particularly impressive in light of the service she provides to the fields of special and general education.
The Early Career Research Award, co-sponsored by the Donald D. Hammill Foundation, includes a $1000 honorarium.
Dr. Sarah Powell
Assistant Professor
Department of Special Education
University of Texas at Austin
srpowell@austin.utexas.edu