SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND CONTRACTS: A total of 1.6 million dollars have been awarded in grants to G. Reid Lyon from 1978 until 1990. Examples are provided below: Funding History (Selected Grants): 989-1990 Special Education Program Evaluation Contract. 1988-1989 1987-1989 1987-1989 1984-1986 1980-1983 $521,000 Health 1984-1989 1978-1981 Gundersen Medical Foundation Research Scientist Award Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities Grant $75,000 awarded to study early intervention with reading disabled children, LaCrosse, Wisconsin (PI: Jane Flynn). Office of Special Education Research (USOE) Grant Foundation for Children With Learning Disabilities Grant NS RO1 268197 - Nosology of Reading Disorders in Children: Intervention with validated subtypes. direct costs. NINDS/National Institutes of NS P01 54426 Classification of School-Age Learning Office of Special Education Research (USOE) Grant disabled children (OE 2232). $160,000 Direct Costs. FELLOWSHIPS: Full tuition scholarship and teaching fellowship awarded by the Full tuition scholarship awarded by North Carolina Wesleyan College 1971-1973. HONORS AND AWARDS: 1999 1998 Kingsbury Center 60th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Research in Learning Disabilities National Institutes of Health Director's Award for Scientific identify and treat critical factors in reading development and 1999 NICHD Director's Staff Recognition Award 1998 NICHD Director's Staff Recognition Award 1997 NICHD Director's Staff Recognition Award 1995 National Institutes of Health Director's Award for Scientific Leadership in Neuropsychology and Learning Disabilities. 1993 NICHD/NIH Performance Award 1990 1988 1986 Expert Appointment as Psychologist, Human Learning and Behavior Research Scientist Award, Gundersen Medical Foundation, Elected to Fellow status, International Academy for 1983 Outstanding Research Award, Division for Learning Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children 1978 1978 1977 1974 1973 1973 Dissertation Honors in Neuropsychology and Special Education, Doctoral Degree awarded with Distinction, the University of New Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society. Master's Degree awarded with Distinction, the University of New Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology awarded with highest 1968/70 Bronze Star Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm, EDITORIAL BOARDS: The Clinical Neuropsychologist The Journal of Learning Disabilities Learning Disability Research and Practice Learning Disability Quarterly INVITED JOURNAL REVIEWER: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Perception The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology The Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Learning Disabilities Research Annals of Dyslexia Certified Special Education Teacher: New Mexico, Vermont. Commercial Pilot: Licensed to Fly Single and Multiengine Aircraft. Instrument Rated, Commercial Pilot, Single and Multiengine Aircraft. Licensed to Fly Single Engine Seaplanes. Aircraft Type-Ratings: C7 Caribou; DC3 (C47); OV-10; UH1B; UH1C Combat Service: Combat Unit(s): Republic of Vietnam, January, 1968 to April, 1970 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division; 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division January 13, 2000 The Honorable Nick Smith Chairman Subcommittee on Basic Research U.S. House of Representatives 2320 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-6371 Dear Chairman Smith: I very much appreciated the opportunity to provide testimony to your Subcommittee regarding educational research, and am equally pleased to provide the additional information that you have requested. I will respond individually to each of the questions submitted to me by the Subcommittee. The questions and my response to each are provided below. Question 1: Why hasn't the NIH contributed to funding the Interagency Education Research Initiative thus far? Will the agency budget for it in subsequent years, and if so, at what level? The NIH/NICHD was not able to contribute to the Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI) in Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 because all Institute funds had been committed to other activities by the time the IERI was initiated. The NICHD did, however, contribute substantial intellectual capital to the initiative during this first year and was highly active and instrumental in the collaborations between NSF, OERI, and NIH that led to the planning and drafting of the Request for Applications for the IERI, the selection of scientists to provide peer review of the submitted applications, and the final selection of the funded applications. Moreover, NICHD played a critical role, along with NSF and OERI, in designing the scientific round table meetings with outside scientists to address critical issues in research methodology, technology, and science education. The products derived from these meetings will be applied directly to the development of the next (FY 2000) solicitation for IERI applications. Finally, the NICHD has been instrumental, along with NSF and OERI, in the development and planning of meetings with all current IERI grantees to ensure coordination across agencies, research sites, and principal investigators. The budget allocation process among mechanisms and programs at NICHD for FY 2000 has just been completed and NICHD is planning to contribute $3 million dollars to IERI this year. Question 2: What is the relationship between research activities funded under the Interagency Education Research Initiative and on-going, related research at NICHD? |