Honored Fellows
Two IPR fellows garner national recognition

Fall, 2008, Volume 30, Number 2

Larry Hedges

Two IPR faculty fellows were recently recognized for their substantial contributions to their respective fields.

Hedges Elected to Prestigious Academy
A national leader in the fields of education statistics and evaluation, Larry Hedges is the latest IPR faculty member to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and others, the Academy is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

Hedges is best known for his work to develop statistical methods for meta-analysis—a statistical analysis that pools the results of multiple comparable studies—in the social, medical, and biological sciences. Widely published, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal articles and eight books, including the second edition of The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis (forthcoming, Russell Sage Foundation Press) with Harris Cooper.

Hedges was one of eight American academics elected to the Academy’s social science section on social and developmental psychology and education. In all, 212 new members were inducted in 2008, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; Nobel Prize winners Linda Buck and Craig Mello; and blues guitarist B. B. King.

Five other IPR faculty have been inducted into the Academy: Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice; Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor in Economics; Alberto Palloni, Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology; Benjamin Page, Fulcher Professor of Decision Making; and Robert Porter, Kenan Professor of Economics.

Hedges has been Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy and an IPR faculty fellow since 2005 at Northwestern. He co-directs IPR’s Center for Improving Methods for Quantitative Policy Research, or Q-Center.

	Alice Eagly

Eagly Receives Life Achievement Award
For her contributions as a scholar and mentor, the American Psychological Foundation awarded psychologist Alice Eagly the 2008 Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology. The APF, which is part of the American Psychological Association, has bestowed these awards annually since 1956 “in recognition of a distinguished career and enduring contribution to psychology.”

A professor at Northwestern University and an IPR faculty fellow since 1995, Eagly is best known for her innovative and careful scholarship in the psychology of gender, her groundbreaking work on the study of attitudes and persuasion, and her innovation in the use of meta-analytic techniques.

Her work on gender has also led her to venture into the field of leadership to study how women become leaders. This work recently culminated in the publication of Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) with Linda Carli.

Over the course of her career, she has co-authored or co-edited seven books, including The Psychology of Attitudes with Shelly Chaiken (1993, Harcourt, Brace & Janovich), and more than 85 journal articles. Eagly is James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences and professor of psychology.