University of Oklahoma education professor Diane M. Horm, Ph.D., has been awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. This award is given annually and recognizes an individual who has contributed nationally and internationally to the field of early education and child development.
Horm is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education and founding director of the Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa. She is also an associate director of the OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation.
